Playtest: Wizard - Wizards of the Coast

Playtest: Wizard
Bigby’s Grasping Hands Wizard Attack 15
Two hands of glowing golden force materialize, grab a couple of your foes, and slam them together.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Conjuration, Evocation, Force, Implement
Standard Action Ranged 10
Effect: You conjure two 5-foot-tall hands of force, each in a different unoccupied square
within range. The hands occupy their squares, and they last until the end of your next
turn.
When the hands appear, you make the following attack with each hand. While a
hand persists, you can use a move action to move the hand to a square adjacent to a
creature within range and command the hand to attack that creature. In addition, if
each hand has a creature grabbed during your turn and the creatures are within 5
squares of each other, you can use a standard action to slam the hands together, pulling
each of the creatures 2 squares to squares adjacent to each other, and those creatures
each take 2d10 + Intelligence modifier force damage. Each hand then returns to
its original square, pulling its grabbed creature with it.
Target: One creature adjacent to the hand
Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d10 + Intelligence modifier force damage, and the hand grabs the target. The
hand uses your Fortitude or Reflex if the target attempts to escape.
Sustain Minor: The hands persist until the end of your next turn.
Blast of Cold Where its cousin cone of cold is useful for taking enemies
alive, blast of cold has no room for mercy. You manipulate the latent sentience lurking
within the elemental cold you create and direct it to scourge your foes with
killing frost that binds them in clinging ice.
Blast of Cold Wizard Attack 15
You emit a wave of supernatural cold that freezes your enemies in place.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Cold, Evocation, Implement
Standard Action Close blast 5
Target: Each enemy in the blast
Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex
Hit: 6d6 + Intelligence modifier cold damage, and the target is immobilized (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, and the target is slowed (save ends).
Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere Although Otiluke is not as well known
as Mordenkainen or Bigby, his contributions to magic cannot be understated. Otiluke’s
interests focused on spheres, especially those created from force. His most
famous spell, perhaps because of its dual applications, is Otiluke’s resilient sphere.
You can use it to imprison an enemy and thus take it out of the fight, or as a barrier
to protect yourself from attacks.
The eladrin wizard assails an angel of valor with a sudden blast of cold
Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere Wizard Attack 15
You trap your enemy in a transparent, immobile globe of impenetrable force.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Conjuration, Evocation, Force, Implement
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex. If you target yourself or a willing ally, you automatically hit.
Hit: You conjure a sphere of force that encompasses the target’s space until the end
of your next turn. While in the sphere, the target is immobilized and cannot attack
anything outside its space. Creatures outside the sphere cannot attack the target, and
the sphere blocks objects and creatures attempting to pass through it. The sphere can
be attacked. It has 100 hit points, and attacks against it hit automatically.
Sustain Minor: The sphere persists until the end of your next turn.
Miss: The target is immobilized (save ends).
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