After a lot of thinking for a fey-wild one-shot I thought: I wanna be the white rabbit from Alice in wonderland, with a golden pocketwatch and the fey-ability to mess with time. I came to the precise race and subclass selection and THEN found this video. Never felt less original in my life but great build, very informative!
lol, thank you for sharing the story, I'm glad you liked the video. :-) And... hope you still decide to play your idea in the fey wild one-shot. Sounds fun! Cheers!
Thank you for this character build! I made an Eladrin Chronurgy Wizard build. As the time changes, so is the seasons, hence the race. Fey Step is a nice touch too. His Arcane Focus was a Headphone with a portable CD player that was a gift from his father that travels thru time and another plane. And my DM let me flavor the spell as “Fast Forward” for Haste, “Cancel Play” for Counterspell, “Rewind” For Silvery barbs, and so on. 😄
I am running a game for my 3 young daughters, and one HATES time travel stories. She's playing a chronurgy wizard to be the one in control. I'm throwing some of the ribbon abilities from the clockwork soul sorcerer to add flavor and some potency.
Nice! This sounds fun, I hope she has fun playing the Chronurgy Wizard. Fun fact. My original video had a multiclass build, dipping 3 levels into Clockwork Soul. I think they work great together. Especially when you can twincast Haste. Cheers!
Awesome video, very informative! I did want to mention that “save or suck” refers to the enemy must save, or else they suck. Not if the enemy saves, the spell sucks. It’s a step down from the old “save or die” spells.
Thematically anything to do with space can also be tied with time because of how heavily related they are (thanks einstein) so stuff like misty step is just moving forward in spacetime or something about length contraction maybe.
I absolutely love this build and how you rebranded all spells as time-themed! Also, as a support character with limited offensive abilities they don´t seem OP. I´ve opted for a custom background I found online (Time-Lost) and created a background story about them being a scientist from a future that has gone pearshaped, looking for lost knowledge in the past to rebalance their world´s society, but getting trapped in time. They´re looking for their lost scientist accomplice and working out why Time itself sent them to this timeframe. I added star maps and interdimensional charts in their possessions for flavour, and gave them a Forgotten Realms dead language proficiency from a past long gone + Tinker´s tools proficiency. Btw, I know it would be totally MAD but starting with 1 lvl of Clockwork Soul would be really flavourful and Restore Balance is quite powerful. You´d give up 1 point of dex, but it might be worth the tradeoff, especially since you directly get CON saves proficiency. And later you can take Skill Expert instead of Resilient.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the character build. And, nice! I really dig that background for your character. Well done, seems like it will make for some interesting stories in-game. And, yep, I like the clockwork soul idea too. I might have to tinker with that at some point. Cheers!
Hey love your build, the only maybe Idea I would like to add are 2 spells I used as a time wizard. 1 is a level 5 spell called steel wind, which does 6d10 to up to 5 creatures within 30ft of you and lets you teleport near on of your choice on your final hit. I played it off in my campaign as stopping time and moving so fast that you hit the creatures with kinetic energy of your body moving into theirs. It saved me when I was surrounded by a horde of zombies. The other spell is a level 2 spell Maximilian's earthen grasp. I flavored it as a grandfather clock appearing and its hands of time reached out and tried to put the creature inside itself to restrain it. Lots of fun and control at early levels.
I am going to try this in partial, I play a Harengon Monk right now, it will be fun to add the two levels to make him super fast! With Alert, I'll have a +14 initiative!
For mine I actually main-classed in clockwork sorcerer and only took 2 levels in wizard to get the chronal shift. Getting to bonus action mind sliver and then casting slow or even mindsliver again is a nice combo. Taking away advantage and disadvantage is perfect and with Tasha's optional features I can use sorcery points to reroll ability checks. In my custom lineage I took lucky instead. I've only built him up to level 7 but I'll probs put the next level in sorcerer just to get that nice third quicken spell and then go full chronurgist. Mirror image makes you pretty much untouchable with all your time rewinds, and because lucky doesn't actually take a reaction you can use lucky to make an attack miss you and still use your reaction on silvery barbs.
Theorectically with arcane abeyance you can give it to your tiny servant. Put Wall of force into the bead and give them the instruction to use the bead when they see me cast Sickening Radiance or cloudkill. Microwave your enemy as long as they don't have disintegrate. teleportation magic, or counterspell.
It’s a really cool concept and I’ve been thinking of doing a chrono/time mage for a while now. Thank you this really helps me with my build. I was wondering, what do you think of adding in ‘Catnap’ as a spell that basically means you get the benefits of a short rest in 10 mins for you and your party meaning you get your arcane abeyance up again as well as the wizards normal ability to regain some spell slots on a short rest? You could also take the find familiar spell and use that to use the ‘arcane abeyanced’ spell for you and it means you can use time spells that require touch in combat without actually having to be in the midst and in danger? I thought of an interesting combination of using immovable object using your familiar to stop time around an object an enemy is wearing/carrying meaning they can’t use that object or armour anymore meaning the rest of your party can deal with them and seeing how it was your familir concentrating on the spell you can cast another debuff concentration spell on the enemy or keep up the concentration of haste on the barbarian/fighter. Sorry this is a bit of a long comment, I just wondered what your thoughts on it were. I love the video though keep up the good work. Looking forward to trying your builds out in my games!!
I love this build. I also love that you love FF Tactics. I'm hoping to one day run a D&D campaign set in Ivalice using the jobs in FF Tactics. Would you have suggestions on how to build a Calculator/Arithmetician in 5e?
Oh, absolutely. I'm a huge FF Tactics fan. All the way back to my PS1 days. I dig the idea of setting up a campaign with similar jobs. Sounds fun! And, for Calculator/Arithmetician... hmmm. that is a tough one. I am not sure really. I mean, I wish there was an Artificer that filled this role. Maybe the Divination Wizard with some lucky traits or feats. Reflavoring the portent/lucky/divination abilities as well thought out calculations and formulas? Could work, I suppose. Thank you Cliff!
@@WallyDM Yeah, I wasn't 100% sure how to start either, and the only thing that came to mind for me was Sorcerer with Wild Magic. Summoners I figured would be a class that can do a lot of summons (most likely a wizard). My idea is to set the campaign during Ajora's era and include the rise (and eventual fall) of the Brave Knights and the Kingdom of Mullond(e). Maybe even using Ajora and Gernomique as NPCs that assist the party. And yeah, Tactics is my favorite game. I played it so much, I wore out the disc and had to buy a new copy XD. Once it's finished, I'd be more than happy to share my notes with you.
@@cliffmoore4064 Sure thing. Reach out anytime. I won't ever be able to do something like this, but I'm interested to see how it works for you. Cheers!
*Lifts the 'Guide of Chronomancy by TSR (RIP)'* Sorry, I have the Wildemount version and Chronomancy floating in my background. The big bad is trying to reverse 'The Elven Retreat' for Cormyr, Cormanthor and Myth Drannor.
Oh my goodness, I'm glad you mentioned this! This version of the time mage is my SECOND recording. The first time I recorded the video I went 6 levels of Wizard and then dipped into 3 levels of Clockwork Sorcerer because I wanted the Restore Balance Feature AND be able to Twin cast haste. Also, with Clockwork Sorcerer, we can have our eyes look like clocks, which is really on theme. I ultimately decided to go straight Chronurgy Wizard for the final video so I could review some higher level spells and the 10th Level ability of the Chronurgy Wizard. Super cool that you brought this up. Cheers!
Hello - great video, thank you. My DM is starting a group off at level 7, and has asked us: "What is one non super legendary non artifact magic item that would be FIT for your character?" I'm interested in what you'd be inclined to pick, since I'll be playing a Chronurgy Wizard. Thanks in advance!
Hmmm. If I were to select a magic item that FIT my character, I would probably select the Boots of Speed. They would flavor the "speeding up time for me, slowing down time for everyone else". Plus, the benefits are similar to that of a haste spell. Increased movement and opponents having disadvantage on attacks against you. Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes!
theoretically, when i play variant human and pick fey touched as my level 1 feat... i learn misty step and for example gift of alacrity, can i use misty step AND gift of alacrity once per long rest for free, without preparation, from level 1 onwards ?
Yep. This is correct. You get one free casting of each spell per long rest. However, if you want to cast them more than once per day you will need to expend a spell slot available of the appropriate level (2nd for Misty Step, 1st level spell slot for the other). Fey Touched is so damn good. I love it. Hope this helps. Cheers!
@@mauriceschannel1945 Gift of Alacrity is in the Explorers Guide to Wildmount, so you will need to have Critical Role content enabled. Hope that helps!
Ah, yes, here is a little character build trick I learned from page 125 of the PHB. If two sources grant the same skill proficiency, you can pick a different proficiency of your choice. I chose Arcana and History for being a Wizard. Then, I chose the Sage background. Sage offers Arcana and History allowing me to select two different proficiencies of my choosing. One of those was Acrobatics. Hope this helps. Cheers!
Wally, was there something I said wrong that you deleted my comment? I was just saying that the chronurgist was a poor attempt at a time wizard sub class, it doesn't have a lot of adequate time spells and abilities.
Hi Edward, thank you for watching my video! I did not delete any of your comments, that is weird. But, anyways... I do think we could have a better time mage in 5E. Whether that is via a subclass, more time centered spells, or both. Thanx again, cheers!
@@WallyDM I didn't realize youtube deleted comments with links. I was posting a link to my homebrewery. I created and playtested a chronomancer with my dm, who enjoyed it so much she played it in another campaign. I have a handful of spells that we balanced and added to it for flavor. The sub class can hold its own, and is great for crowd control. But yea, that is where the comment went I suppose.
@@edwardgiogi Yeah, UA-cam is weird sometimes, for sure. Try posting the link in a reply to this comment and I will take a look at it sometime when I get a chance.
I had to google that to get the reference, lol. I was thinking "Q" being short for Quartz (like the watch), but I love that it could have multiple meanings. Cheers!
it always puts a smile on my face when DM asks for initiative scores and i say between 30 to 41
I love this so much! lol. I can imagine they are like: what?? lmao. Cheers!
I rolled that today haha so satisfying haha
I don't usually play Wizards, but I REALLY love this build, so .... Maybe I will.
Same here. I'm not a huge fan of playing wizards, but I'd make an exception for this one. Cheers!
After a lot of thinking for a fey-wild one-shot I thought: I wanna be the white rabbit from Alice in wonderland, with a golden pocketwatch and the fey-ability to mess with time. I came to the precise race and subclass selection and THEN found this video. Never felt less original in my life but great build, very informative!
lol, thank you for sharing the story, I'm glad you liked the video. :-) And... hope you still decide to play your idea in the fey wild one-shot. Sounds fun! Cheers!
As someone who went through that exact same process 5 minutes ago I can confirm XD
Mine is lore bard and mage
Thank you for this character build! I made an Eladrin Chronurgy Wizard build. As the time changes, so is the seasons, hence the race. Fey Step is a nice touch too. His Arcane Focus was a Headphone with a portable CD player that was a gift from his father that travels thru time and another plane. And my DM let me flavor the spell as “Fast Forward” for Haste, “Cancel Play” for Counterspell, “Rewind”
For Silvery barbs, and so on. 😄
Hot diggity, I really love the idea of your CD player. That is a really unique and cool idea. Thank you for sharing, well done!
I am running a game for my 3 young daughters, and one HATES time travel stories. She's playing a chronurgy wizard to be the one in control. I'm throwing some of the ribbon abilities from the clockwork soul sorcerer to add flavor and some potency.
Nice! This sounds fun, I hope she has fun playing the Chronurgy Wizard. Fun fact. My original video had a multiclass build, dipping 3 levels into Clockwork Soul. I think they work great together. Especially when you can twincast Haste. Cheers!
Awesome video, very informative! I did want to mention that “save or suck” refers to the enemy must save, or else they suck. Not if the enemy saves, the spell sucks. It’s a step down from the old “save or die” spells.
Right on! Thank you for watching, glad you liked the video. Cheers!
This was great reskinning of the classic spells! I like that a lot.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the character build. Cheers!
Your flavor changes to spells are perfect
Thank you my friend! This is one of my favorite builds so far. Really digging it. Cheers!
@@WallyDM I'm glad the white rabbit (Alice) reference wasn't wasted too
@@FlutesLoot I felt it was an absolute must, for sure. lol.
Thematically anything to do with space can also be tied with time because of how heavily related they are (thanks einstein) so stuff like misty step is just moving forward in spacetime or something about length contraction maybe.
I can definitely get behind this idea as well. Especially for Misty Step. Thank you for watching. Cheers!
Time MAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage!
Love adding this flavor to spells
Thanks for making this and going over stuff, you are always awesome!
You are the best. Thank you my friend! Cheers!
I'm gonna try this in my next campaign in a week, I'm super excited. Changed the build up just a little to focus on maxing out initiative bonus.
Awww yeah. Hope it works well for you. Lemme know how it goes!
@@WallyDM at level 20, I should have +21 to initiative +1d8 +1d4
I'm stealing this idea for the bbeg in my campaign
Awww yeah. Glad you can use the idea!
I absolutely love this build and how you rebranded all spells as time-themed! Also, as a support character with limited offensive abilities they don´t seem OP.
I´ve opted for a custom background I found online (Time-Lost) and created a background story about them being a scientist from a future that has gone pearshaped, looking for lost knowledge in the past to rebalance their world´s society, but getting trapped in time. They´re looking for their lost scientist accomplice and working out why Time itself sent them to this timeframe. I added star maps and interdimensional charts in their possessions for flavour, and gave them a Forgotten Realms dead language proficiency from a past long gone + Tinker´s tools proficiency.
Btw, I know it would be totally MAD but starting with 1 lvl of Clockwork Soul would be really flavourful and Restore Balance is quite powerful. You´d give up 1 point of dex, but it might be worth the tradeoff, especially since you directly get CON saves proficiency. And later you can take Skill Expert instead of Resilient.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the character build. And, nice! I really dig that background for your character. Well done, seems like it will make for some interesting stories in-game. And, yep, I like the clockwork soul idea too. I might have to tinker with that at some point. Cheers!
Hey love your build, the only maybe Idea I would like to add are 2 spells I used as a time wizard. 1 is a level 5 spell called steel wind, which does 6d10 to up to 5 creatures within 30ft of you and lets you teleport near on of your choice on your final hit. I played it off in my campaign as stopping time and moving so fast that you hit the creatures with kinetic energy of your body moving into theirs. It saved me when I was surrounded by a horde of zombies.
The other spell is a level 2 spell Maximilian's earthen grasp. I flavored it as a grandfather clock appearing and its hands of time reached out and tried to put the creature inside itself to restrain it. Lots of fun and control at early levels.
I like both of these, but I really dig that idea for Maximilian's Earthen Grasp! Well done. Cheers!
I'm definitely trying this! Thanks for the video!
Glad I could help. Good luck Anthony!
I am going to try this in partial, I play a Harengon Monk right now, it will be fun to add the two levels to make him super fast! With Alert, I'll have a +14 initiative!
+14 initiative, lol. I love it!
@@WallyDM Combined with longstrider and drunken master 65 movement as well, cant wait for haste!
Loved this build! What a fun concept
Thank you! I love exploring thematic character builds. Working on a Wild Magic Sorcerer video now... should be fun. Cheers!
For mine I actually main-classed in clockwork sorcerer and only took 2 levels in wizard to get the chronal shift. Getting to bonus action mind sliver and then casting slow or even mindsliver again is a nice combo. Taking away advantage and disadvantage is perfect and with Tasha's optional features I can use sorcery points to reroll ability checks. In my custom lineage I took lucky instead. I've only built him up to level 7 but I'll probs put the next level in sorcerer just to get that nice third quicken spell and then go full chronurgist. Mirror image makes you pretty much untouchable with all your time rewinds, and because lucky doesn't actually take a reaction you can use lucky to make an attack miss you and still use your reaction on silvery barbs.
Wow! I really dig your build here. Seems perfect for controlling the battlefield. Well done!
@@WallyDM Thank you so much! That means a lot coming from someone I consider to be a professional D&D player.
@@THESHADOWMASTER9 You are most welcome! I am definitely not a professional, but I do appreciate the comment. Thank you, Will. Cheers!
interesting choices, Wally. thank you
Thank you for watching! I appreciate it. Cheers!
Theorectically with arcane abeyance you can give it to your tiny servant. Put Wall of force into the bead and give them the instruction to use the bead when they see me cast Sickening Radiance or cloudkill. Microwave your enemy as long as they don't have disintegrate. teleportation magic, or counterspell.
Wow! Not that is an interesting tactical move. Whoa!
I don't thinknyou can trap a level 5 wall of force in that bead. Only level 4 or lower
My bad you can cast wall of force on your own and put sickening radiance in the bead.
It’s a really cool concept and I’ve been thinking of doing a chrono/time mage for a while now. Thank you this really helps me with my build. I was wondering, what do you think of adding in ‘Catnap’ as a spell that basically means you get the benefits of a short rest in 10 mins for you and your party meaning you get your arcane abeyance up again as well as the wizards normal ability to regain some spell slots on a short rest? You could also take the find familiar spell and use that to use the ‘arcane abeyanced’ spell for you and it means you can use time spells that require touch in combat without actually having to be in the midst and in danger? I thought of an interesting combination of using immovable object using your familiar to stop time around an object an enemy is wearing/carrying meaning they can’t use that object or armour anymore meaning the rest of your party can deal with them and seeing how it was your familir concentrating on the spell you can cast another debuff concentration spell on the enemy or keep up the concentration of haste on the barbarian/fighter. Sorry this is a bit of a long comment, I just wondered what your thoughts on it were. I love the video though keep up the good work. Looking forward to trying your builds out in my games!!
I love this build. I also love that you love FF Tactics. I'm hoping to one day run a D&D campaign set in Ivalice using the jobs in FF Tactics. Would you have suggestions on how to build a Calculator/Arithmetician in 5e?
Oh, absolutely. I'm a huge FF Tactics fan. All the way back to my PS1 days. I dig the idea of setting up a campaign with similar jobs. Sounds fun! And, for Calculator/Arithmetician... hmmm. that is a tough one. I am not sure really. I mean, I wish there was an Artificer that filled this role. Maybe the Divination Wizard with some lucky traits or feats. Reflavoring the portent/lucky/divination abilities as well thought out calculations and formulas? Could work, I suppose. Thank you Cliff!
@@WallyDM Yeah, I wasn't 100% sure how to start either, and the only thing that came to mind for me was Sorcerer with Wild Magic. Summoners I figured would be a class that can do a lot of summons (most likely a wizard).
My idea is to set the campaign during Ajora's era and include the rise (and eventual fall) of the Brave Knights and the Kingdom of Mullond(e). Maybe even using Ajora and Gernomique as NPCs that assist the party. And yeah, Tactics is my favorite game. I played it so much, I wore out the disc and had to buy a new copy XD.
Once it's finished, I'd be more than happy to share my notes with you.
@@cliffmoore4064 Sure thing. Reach out anytime. I won't ever be able to do something like this, but I'm interested to see how it works for you. Cheers!
I would make my charecters backstory so the futures sunlight is dangerous and burns the world so fireball would be labled sunlight
*Lifts the 'Guide of Chronomancy by TSR (RIP)'*
Sorry, I have the Wildemount version and Chronomancy floating in my background. The big bad is trying to reverse 'The Elven Retreat' for Cormyr, Cormanthor and Myth Drannor.
I did not know the Guide of Chronmancy exists. Interesting. I'll have to check it out.
@@WallyDM It's one of the last books from Advanced D&D 1994, RPGnow has pdfs of it, or just wiki summaries and comments from the staff then.
i had similar idea for a time mage, with one or two levels of clockwork sorcerer thrown in, for the restore balance feature.
Oh my goodness, I'm glad you mentioned this! This version of the time mage is my SECOND recording. The first time I recorded the video I went 6 levels of Wizard and then dipped into 3 levels of Clockwork Sorcerer because I wanted the Restore Balance Feature AND be able to Twin cast haste. Also, with Clockwork Sorcerer, we can have our eyes look like clocks, which is really on theme. I ultimately decided to go straight Chronurgy Wizard for the final video so I could review some higher level spells and the 10th Level ability of the Chronurgy Wizard. Super cool that you brought this up. Cheers!
Hello - great video, thank you. My DM is starting a group off at level 7, and has asked us: "What is one non super legendary non artifact magic item that would be FIT for your character?" I'm interested in what you'd be inclined to pick, since I'll be playing a Chronurgy Wizard. Thanks in advance!
Hmmm. If I were to select a magic item that FIT my character, I would probably select the Boots of Speed. They would flavor the "speeding up time for me, slowing down time for everyone else". Plus, the benefits are similar to that of a haste spell. Increased movement and opponents having disadvantage on attacks against you. Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes!
@@WallyDM check the Clockwork Amulet from xanathar guide of everything;) amzing guide btw
Why do you have diviniation as a 4th lvl spell when that spell its a cleric spell and not from wizard class?
Divination was added to the Wizard spell list in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, page 75. Hope this helps!
What computer program are you using to build the character?
This is D&D Beyond. :-)
theoretically, when i play variant human and pick fey touched as my level 1 feat... i learn misty step and for example gift of alacrity, can i use misty step AND gift of alacrity once per long rest for free, without preparation, from level 1 onwards ?
Yep. This is correct. You get one free casting of each spell per long rest. However, if you want to cast them more than once per day you will need to expend a spell slot available of the appropriate level (2nd for Misty Step, 1st level spell slot for the other). Fey Touched is so damn good. I love it. Hope this helps. Cheers!
I can’t find gift of alacrity on the spell menu when I choose feyed touch
@@mauriceschannel1945 Gift of Alacrity is in the Explorers Guide to Wildmount, so you will need to have Critical Role content enabled. Hope that helps!
How'd you get proficiency in acrobatics it's not on my wizard list I see medicine religion & insight
Ah, yes, here is a little character build trick I learned from page 125 of the PHB. If two sources grant the same skill proficiency, you can pick a different proficiency of your choice. I chose Arcana and History for being a Wizard. Then, I chose the Sage background. Sage offers Arcana and History allowing me to select two different proficiencies of my choosing. One of those was Acrobatics. Hope this helps. Cheers!
Wally, was there something I said wrong that you deleted my comment? I was just saying that the chronurgist was a poor attempt at a time wizard sub class, it doesn't have a lot of adequate time spells and abilities.
Hi Edward, thank you for watching my video! I did not delete any of your comments, that is weird. But, anyways... I do think we could have a better time mage in 5E. Whether that is via a subclass, more time centered spells, or both. Thanx again, cheers!
@@WallyDM I didn't realize youtube deleted comments with links. I was posting a link to my homebrewery. I created and playtested a chronomancer with my dm, who enjoyed it so much she played it in another campaign. I have a handful of spells that we balanced and added to it for flavor. The sub class can hold its own, and is great for crowd control. But yea, that is where the comment went I suppose.
@@edwardgiogi Yeah, UA-cam is weird sometimes, for sure. Try posting the link in a reply to this comment and I will take a look at it sometime when I get a chance.
Hmm. A time mage named "Q".... very Heroes in Theory: Ties That Blind of you
I had to google that to get the reference, lol. I was thinking "Q" being short for Quartz (like the watch), but I love that it could have multiple meanings. Cheers!
My man! 🪄