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Mad MagE
The Wizard of Weird
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!”
Description
Magic can do terrible things to a mind. No greater example ex-
ists of the folly that awaits overambitious wizards than the tale of
the Mad Mage. Once considered the greatest archmage to ever
live, the now disgraced spellcaster is a ruinous and unstable shell
of a man. From his terrific mane of unkempt hair to his bulging,
unblinking eyes, the Mad Mage is a sight to behold. His once-
elegant black cloak lies in tattered ruins, while clutched in the
mage’s ancient fingers is an oaken staff, the significance of which
is known only to the crazed wizard. The Mad Mage has men-
aced the world for generations, breeding countless monsters and
weaving unstable magic from beneath his mountain fortress. In
a direct confrontation one has the unfortunate privilege of wit-
nessing the mage’s multiple personalities, each of which brings
about a dangerous pattern of behavior that bodes ill for all pres-
ent. This fearsome being is rounded off by a staggering arsenal of
magic eclipsing all but the most talented spellcasters. With but a
word and gesture from his gnarled hand, the Mad Mage can visit
PROFILE
Personality: Insane
Ideals: The Mad Mage seeks to complete his magical
experiments by any means. These experiments range
from the harmless to the apocalyptic. The scope of the
experiment matters not to the Mad Mage, only that the
test be magical in nature and completed as expediently
as possible. Any who attempt to interfere with these
activities are considered mortal enemies.
Bonds: The labyrinthian dungeon fortress the Mad
Mage calls home is precious to him. The prospect of
leaving its familiar halls terrifies the mage beyond
reason, and the mage fights tooth and nail against any
who threaten to remove him.
Flaws: With a questionable grip on reality, the Mad
Mage often struggles to accurately assess dangerous
situations. He may attribute godlike powers to
insignificant beings and spit on worthy challengers to
his power as though they were peasants. Or he may not.
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one of a thousand horrors upon his enemies—a fate experienced
by countless heroes who dared challenge his power.
The Mad Mage
in Your Campaign
The Mad Mage represents the dangerous outcomes of messing
too frivolously with magic, a good lesson that many characters
would do well to heed. A campaign with this colorful character
is likely filled with arcane mysteries, bizarre monsters, and the
crazed schemes of an all-powerful wizard completely out of
control. Confronting the Mad Mage requires extreme courage
and considerable tolerance for the surreal. Powerful wizards have
always been known to reshape reality, so when a completely
insane one does it, things get weird. Pool all your strangest and
outside-the-box tools for such a campaign, as you will want each
encounter to reflect the Mad Mage’s personality at every turn.
The mage can never be counted on to be consistent, even
at the best of times.
Legend: Over a thousand years ago, a plucky young man
began his journey down the road of wizardry, with an all
too tragic end. It took many centuries for the man, whose
name has been lost to time, to become truly mad. Before
those times he apprenticed many aspiring wizards, wrought
fantastic magic, and discovered countless secrets about the
multiverse. But it was not enough. The mage’s quest for
knowledge led him to a great mountain, along with his
seven finest apprentices. Together they built the ultimate
domicile of wizardry: part research lab, part library, and part
zoo, all dedicated to the understanding and mastery of mag-
ic. Within this fortress the Mad Mage began to earn his
title, delving deeper in the ways of magic and stretching his
mind further across the planes. One by one his apprentices
fell to the mage’s madness, until only he remained. Alone,
surrounded by an extremely hazardous quantity of magic
and an army of monsters, the Mad Mage is an unpredict-
able threat to the world that could strike without warning.
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INTRODUCTION
Most campaigns involving the Mad Mage, content to lurk
within his mountain, begin with one of his bizarre experiments
breaking free of its confines and going on a rampage. Whether
this act is intentional or accidental none can say, but thanks to
the strange composition of such creatures they can easily be
traced back to the wizard responsible. Once the characters have
tracked down the Mad Mage’s lair and begin their exploration,
the wizard’s attention can turn to them in earnest. Constant
assault by unspeakable horrors, strange magic, and cunning
puzzles are the least of what the Mad Mage can do. Excited by
the prospect of heroes entering his domain, the wizard goes to
obsessive lengths to learn everything he can about these new
curiosities. The time to destroy them will come later. Now is
the time for science!
CONFLICT
As the characters delve deeper into the labyrinthian lair of the
Mad Mage, things take a more dangerous turn. The shattered
mind of the mage has unmade reality on these lower levels,
replacing the laws of magic and physics with his own twisted
designs. These effects are as difficult to comprehend as they are
dangerous. One room can contain an abyssal ocean in which
Great Old Ones swim through shadowy waters, while another
can be a sentient library that attempts to educate intruders to
death. These conflicts are often paradoxical and nonsensical in
nature, beyond the capacity for rational minds to comprehend.
At the heart of these confrontations is the mage’s magic. It
suffuses every corner of his domain as if it were a prolific moss,
spreading, influencing, and altering all in its path. Unlike the
traditionally precise and scientific spells of wizards, the Mad
Mage’s magic is more akin to an illness disgorged from his
mind: rancid, unpredictable, and dangerous. In some situations,
the Mad Mage may engage the characters directly, interviewing
them about their experiences within his mountain or testing
the capacities of some horrific spell he’s devised. Each personal
encounter should be suitably bizarre, as though the characters are
speaking to a different person each time.
CONCLUSION
Confronting the Mad Mage means one has survived countless
arcane obstacles, overcome unfathomable monstrous horrors,
and navigated one of the most nefarious dungeons ever con-
ceived. Out of experiments to conduct and monsters to send
forth, the Mad Mage is ready to take matters into his own hands.
Displaying uncharacteristic lucidity, the crazed wizard prepares
himself for battle, using everything he knows of the characters
to optimize his strategy. Despite this serious approach, the Mad
Mage still displays his characteristic insanity, devising a plan that
makes sense only to him. Gathering his remaining minions and
resources, the Mad Mage leads the party to his chosen battle-
ground, where he gives an appropriately megalomaniacal speech
between ominous cackles. If everything goes well, the characters
should be piles of dust in a few short hours.
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Challenges
The Mad Mage can pose exploration, social, or combat challenges
to characters who interact with him.
EXPLORATION
The fortress of the Mad Mage expends deep beneath a titanic
mountain. Its countless levels are filled with devious traps,
mutant monsters, and whatever else the crazed mind can come
up with in his ludicrous amount of free time. The entire complex
is a labyrinthian deathtrap that only the Mad Mage can truly
understand. It is said the barriers between the planes are thin here
thanks to the mage’s many experiments, allowing the properties
of other realms to bleed onto the material plane. Navigating this
subterranean house of horrors is not just a matter of physics and
space. It requires a deep understanding of magical teleportation,
manipulation of time, properties of planar masses, and a dozen
other disciplines that would require an entire university of
scholars to fully comprehend. Despite all these deterrents,
adventurers still plumb the depths of the mountain for fortune
and glory. Most never return, their remains a testament to the
severity of the Mad Mage’s “experiments.”
Regional Effects
The region containing the Mad Mage’s lair is warped by his
arcane power, which has created the following effects within the
mountain containing his lair:
When a creature in the affected area attempts to
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magically teleport, it takes 2 (1d4) force damage for
every 10 feet it magically teleports, to a maximum of
50 (20d4) force damage. If a creature teleports farther
than 200 feet in this manner, it instead teleports 200
feet toward its destination, appearing in the nearest
unoccupied space if it would end the teleport inside
a solid object. This effect can only be prevented if an
affected creature is carrying a magical token provided by
the Mad Mage, which often takes the form of a strange
curio or knickknack.
When the Mad Mage talks to himself, he can be heard
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through the region at the volume of a whisper.
A creature that casts a spell that requires a material
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component can instead say something nice about the
Mad Mage in place of that component.
If the Mad Mage is slain, these effects fade immediately.
The Mad Mage’s Lair
Hidden in the deepest, darkest depths of the mountain is the
arcane laboratory of the Mad Mage. This strange collection of
rooms is host to the wizard’s most dangerous, unfathomable,
and astounding arcane mysteries. Using his prodigious intellect
and the collective knowledge from across countless realities, the
Mad Mage toils here to produce incomprehensible wonders and
horrors beyond imagining. Its every corner is stacked with piles of
arcane lore, while complex machines whirl and buzz, conducting
functions which make sense only to the Mad Mage. What the
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wizard seeks to accomplish with all this experimentation and
research is a question best left unanswered, but the fruits of this
surreal labor only serve to further drive the mage into the depths
of arcane madness.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the Mad Mage can
take a lair action to cause one of the following effects. If the Mad
Mage is using his mythic statistics, he can instead choose to take
a mythic action or lair action, but not both. The Mad Mage can’t
use the same effect twice in a row.
The Mad Mage transfers his consciousness to the body
y other than brute force. Often these challenges follow a twisted
of one of his clones (as produced by the clone spell),
destroying his current body instantly.
The Mad Mage chooses a spell effect within his lair that
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he did not produce. When he does so, he can attempt an
Intelligence ability check with a DC equal to 10 plus the
spell’s level (or 21 for a tier 1, 24 for a tier 2, or 28 for a
tier 3 Epic spell), ending the effect on a success.
The Mad Mage creates a scrying portal in an
y decades of trying and is on the brink of insanity. The
unoccupied space he can see within 5 feet of him and
names a creature within the lair. The portal is visible
only in the place it appears and allows any who view
it to observe the target creature as though they were
within 5 feet of them. The Mad Mage can affect the
target with spells he casts as though they were within
5 feet of him, though he cannot affect anything or
anyone else he observes through the portal. This effect
ends if the Mad Mage uses this action option again or
moves farther than 60 feet from the portal.
Exploration Encounters
With a titanic dungeon filled with an entire campaign’s worth of
encounters, the Mad Mage offers much in terms of exploration
challenges for parties to face. Fond of indirect approaches and
strange practices, the Mad Mage fills his domain with all manner
of puzzles, traps, and mysteries that must be overcome by means
logic that forces one to think outside the box, exploiting altered
physics, paradoxical magic, and even more bizarre phenomena to
ensure a worthy challenge.
Reality Revision. A heroic adventurer who has been
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trapped within the Mad Mage’s domain for more than
a hundred years seeks escape. Trapped in a section of
the mountain known as a meta domain, the adventurer
has been unable to unravel the realm’s logic despite
characters must be careful, for attempting to aid the
beleaguered champion may result in their capture
within the horrific meta domain as well, ensuring
their eternal participation in the Mad Mage’s cruel
experiments.

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New Domain: Meta
A meta domain is a realm bereft of logic. Whether it’s
the laws of physics, principles of magic, or just common
sense, nothing about a meta domain can be explained by
conventional means. The entire realm constantly shifts to
new modes of existence: properties of matter are in flux,
magic behaves in unpredictable ways, and time flows in
all directions. What is worse, a meta domain is shackled
to the consciousness of a single entity. This being defines a
meta domain’s properties through its subconscious, making
the impossibilities of thought and desire a reality. In some
cases, a meta domain may even peel back the veil of reality
and reveal the true nature of existence, though few minds
are equipped to handle such truth. No matter the ruler
of a meta domain, the realm is undeniably dangerous and
unstable, fit only for those reality and logic has rejected.
Creatures. Aberrations, fey, and humanoids are the most
common creatures found within a meta domain. The
former possess the alien minds necessary to survive in the
heightened irrationality of such realms, while fey revel in its
chaotic uncertainty. Humanoids are extremely susceptible to
a meta domain’s properties and so can be found entrapped
within with alarming frequency.
Detection. A successful DC 28 Wisdom (Survival) check is
required to determine a meta domain’s true nature.
Properties. A meta domain causes the following effects
within its area.
• Metacreativity. The entire domain is subjected to the
whim and will of a single creature that is native to the
domain. This creature influences the physical, mystical,
and meta properties of the area through its subconscious,
altering its dimensions, spacing, and properties at will.
This effect is unique to each creature which exerts this
influence and can produce a variety of startling effects.
Generally, a meta domain’s shifting nature will not cause
harm by acting upon a creature (though it will typically
produce harmful effects a creature can encounter). A
“typical” meta domain can only be interacted with when
a creature succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence, Wisdom,
or Charisma ability check as a part of any action or
influence it attempts. On a failure, the strange properties
of the domain prevent the effect from occurring.
• Ceaseless Paradox. When a creature would be slain
within the area of the domain, it must succeed on a
DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or be trapped in a state
of cosmic uncertainty where it is both dead and alive.
While in this state, a creature cannot leave the domain
by any means until this paradox is resolved. Doing so
requires another creature not native to the domain to
observe the affected creature and attempt a DC 31
Wisdom (Insight) check, determining whether the
creature is alive or dead on a success.
• Wrong Dimensions. Areas and space within the
domain may not abide by the laws of physics. A single
5-foot space may contain enough area to hold a 50-foot
cube, and vice versa. Any areas affected in this manner
remain so for 24 hours or until the effect is removed.
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The Golden Muffin. The Mad Mage has decided it’s
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time for an experiment. He demands the characters
bring him a personal effect of great value, which he
calls the Golden Muffin. Whether this is a literal
baked good fashioned from gold or some bizarre
metaphor none can say, but the object lies within
a strange and particularly dangerous section of the
mountain known ominously as the Boom Shroom
Boom Room.
Lost and Found. Whenever something is lost
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within the mountain of the Mad Mage, it ends up
in a strange room known as the Lost and Found.
Here, countless objects from across the centuries
have been gathered, categorized, and stored by an
awakened iron golem named Steely Dan. Locating
the Lost and Found has never been accomplished
by any intruder, but there is always a first time
for everything. Especially when the reward is a
mountain of shiny loot beyond appraisal.
SOCIAL
If there is one thing the Mad Mage likes to do more than science,
it’s cast spells. But a close third is talking. Just who the mage
is talking to is often frustratingly unclear. He can hold up to a
dozen different conversations between himself at the same time,
jumping between them with a chaotic efficacy that is startling
to behold. A symptom of the mage’s madness are multiple
personalities, most of which are quite dangerous, but a few are
pleasant, even charming. Each personality has a specific school
of magic it wishes to conduct experiments with, which can prove
extremely hazardous depending on the school. Those who aid the
mage in these experiments may find him to be helpful, at least
until another of his personalities emerges. Trusting the mage
to honor a bargain or even remember a conversation held by a
different personality is only slightly foolhardier than bargaining
with the mage in the first place.
Social Encounters
The Mad Mage’s multiple personalities play a huge role in how
characters interact with him. This strange situation is thanks to
an extremely potent spell the Mad Mage cast to achieve what
all wizards dream of: ultimate knowledge. Known as the mind
nexus, this spell merged the consciousnesses of all Mad Mages
across all possible realities into one river of continuous thought.
Believing he would gain the collective knowledge of his altered
realities, the Mad Mage failed to appreciate just what kind of
effect sharing the minds of countless versions of himself would
do to his own psyche. The wizard’s “madness” is the result, as
the mage constantly flits between different versions of himself
from an infinite number of possibilities. While all knowledge
and truths are shared between them, one’s perspective can prove
just as potent as one’s understanding. One moment the Mad
Mage may be a respected scholar of shrewd cunning, the next a
tortured soul imprisoned by fiends for centuries. It is impossible
to predict which Mad Mage is speaking at any given time,
making any social interaction equal measures unpredictable and
dangerous.
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A Cup for All Occasions. According to the Mad Mage’s non-
existent watch, it is tea time! The characters are invited to share
in a delicious beverage and indulge the wizard in tales of their
exploits. At this event, the Mad Mage is overwhelmingly ob-
sessed with good etiquette and impeccable manners. The party
would do well to mind their p’s and q’s, lest the wizard’s pleasant
demeanor be dispelled and replaced with a far more malevolent
personality.
Flash of Lucidity. For one day every one hundred years, the
Mad Mage’s mind returns to its usual self. During this time, the
wizard is shrewd, calculating, and dangerous, but ultimately seeks
freedom from his current predicament. He will undoubtedly
reach out to any heroes within his mountain when this occurs,
hoping to enlist their aid in ending his curse. Trusting the Mad
Mage is a difficult proposition, let alone ending the powerful
spell he has wrought upon his mind, but there may be a daring
few willing to try.
Best in Show. The Mad Mage has lost his prize-winning pet
rock within his dungeon, requesting the characters find and
return the wayward stone within 24 hours or suffer his extreme
displeasure. The rock is described as an “alluring, perfectly cut
specimen of granite from the talent mountaintop, sporting a
fetching pair of googly eyes.” According to the Mad Mage, the
rock was last spotted in an area of the dungeon known as the
“Bounce House,” purported to be filled with a strangely elastic
and energetic species of ooze.
COMBAT
Combat with a wizard can be difficult—with an insane wizard,
even more so. The Mad Mage is one the greatest mortal spellcast-
ers to walk the realms, and—despite his madness—he knows it.
Countless heroes have challenged him to battle, each meeting an
end grislier than the last. To the Mad Mage, battle has become a
kind of game wherein he attempts to test the efficacy of various
spells and effects against his targets. This practice is not good sci-
ence, however, as the mage grows far too bored with trying the
same thing twice, even if the fireball he just cast was highly effec-
tive. Every spell slung and action performed is geared toward an
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insane purpose only the mage understands. He may strike with
overwhelming fury one moment, only to scream and flee the next
despite being on the cusp of victory. To those of sound mind this
practice is frustratingly bizarre. It is nigh impossible to predict
what the mage will do next, let alone why he cares to do it. He
sets magical traps and unleashes magical monsters at a manic
pace, often witnessing the results of his efforts firsthand.
Combat Encounter Example: Copycats
Having meticulously gathered samples from the characters, the
Mad Mage uses the powerful simulacrum spell to create copies of
them and supplies the constructs with potent equipment. With
twisted glee the Mad Mage sets the simulacrums against the
party when they least expect it, likely immediately after a battle
or while they sleep. The goal of this encounter is to learn the
characters’ weaknesses from how they attack their simulacrums.
Whatever efforts, spells, or strategies the heroes use to defeat
their clones become the ones the Mad Mage seeks to emulate for
their inevitable confrontation ahead.
Tactics
Battlefield Classification: Artillery
There are few things the Mad Mage enjoys more than blowing
stuff up, and his spell list reflects that. Beware! This titan has
an absurd number of options for how he can play thanks to his
massive spell list and abilities. The only way to make this work
well is to take the time to educate yourself about each of their
effects. You should pick out spells you feel are the most fun or
are the ones you’re most likely to use and prepare notes so you
can access them easily. Remember to keep track of the Mad
Mage’s concentration, as it is a huge limiting factor on how his
spells can be applied. Note that the list provided is simply one of
many countless combinations the Mad Mage could possess. You
are encouraged to even develop unique spells that better bring
out the Mad Mage’s crazed demeanor, such as the spell skeletal
deliquesce detailed in this chapter. It feels far more appropriate
to an insane wizard if he is hurling magic the likes of which
the characters have never seen. And thanks to his Multiattack
feature, he can even do this multiple times in a single turn!
On top of his formidable spellcasting, the Mad Mage has a
few other features worth mentioning. His Magical Movement
feature lets him teleport about the battlefield with ease and is
nearly impossible to prevent, ideal for avoiding pesky paladins.
Arcane Fire is an excellent option for when the Mad Mage
needs some big damage, particularly if there are lots of characters
packing counterspell. Maniacal Laughter is the Mad Mage’s
signature ability and is arguably more dangerous than even his
most powerful spells, inflicting its victims with a vestige of the
Mage’s madness. Don’t forget to use Power Shield! The mage has
more than enough spell slots to constantly use this ability, and it’s
key to his survival.
Easier Tactics – Don’t have the Mad Mage join battle with
any spells pre-cast, and don’t optimize his spell list against the
characters. Limit your use of Magical Movement so that the
Mage isn’t constantly out of the characters’ melee range. Avoid
casting the most powerful spells until the characters are in a
strong position to handle them. In particular, avoid effects with
the capacity to disable creatures for multiple turns, such as via
psychic scream.
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Harder Tactics – You have a ton of high-level spell slots. Use
them. At every opportunity, the Mad Mage should be absolutely
massacring the heroes with a barrage of high-powered spells.
Make sure to use Arcane Insanity to optimize the saving throws
against certain high-priority targets. Change the saving throw
on psychic scream from Intelligence to Strength and watch as the
warlock character regrets dumping that statistic. For a particu-
larly dirty trick, use a high-powered Arcane Fire on a nearby
paralyzed character for an automatic critical hit and truly devas-
tating damage. Don’t forget the Spell Empowerment and Perfect
Focus legendary actions, which are ideal for making the Mad
Mage’s spells all the more deadly.
Mythic Mad Mage
This version is a crazed archmage and wielder of Epic magic,
which expands his power by an order of magnitude, along with
a boost to many of his other abilities. With such radical power
at his disposal, the Mad Mage is a threat to everyone and ev-
erything that dares share a plane of existence. The only thing
preventing this version from conquering the realms is his mad-
ness, which keeps him firmly contained within the mountain
fortress.
Note that with his mythic statistics comes
a slew of new opportunities. The number
of non-Epic spell slots this Mad
Mage possesses is truly absurd,
allowing him to unload spells
at an unrivaled pace. What
is worse, Epic spells are
now at his disposal,
many of which
can completely
annihilate an
unsuspecting
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party in a single blast. Read these spells through carefully, as a
single miscast or misapplication is extremely costly to the Mad
Mage.
What is more, the Mad Mage receives potent new mythic
actions that further expand his powers. The two options here
either improve his combat effectiveness via Multiple Personalities
or expand his destructive power via Arcane Instability. The latter
is extremely dangerous, as the Mad Mage likely has used the
spell clone or similar magic many times in preparation for his
death and doesn’t mind blowing up his current body in order to
take as many characters with him as he can.
MYTHIC EFFECTS
As a mythic creature, the Mad Mage causes the following effects.
Knowledge Is Power. By spending 1 hour of strenuous activity
directly observing a non-Deific creature, the Mad Mage can
learn its name, hit point maximum, class (if any), class features,
actions, and traits. Unless the creature is Epic, the Mad Mage
forgets all this information after 24 hours.
Dungeon Master. When a creature enters the Mad Mage’s
dungeon for the first time in its existence,
the mage immediately becomes aware of
the intrusion. Additionally, the mage can
spend 10 minutes of strenuous activity
to locate exactly where in
his dungeon an intruding
creature is.
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The Mad Mage
Medium humanoid (human), chaotic evil
Armor Class 15 (mage armor)
Hit Points 471 (41d8 + 287)
Speed 30 ft., teleport 60 ft. (to an unoccupied space he can see)
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
11 (+0) 14 (+2) 25 (+7) 30 (+10) 5 (−3) 23 (+6)
Saving Throws Con +15, Int +18, Wis +5
Skills Arcana +28, History +28, Perception +6
Damage Immunities psychic
Senses passive Perception 16
Languages Common, plus four other languages determined
randomly each day
Challenge 26 (105,000 XP)
TRAITS
Arcane Insanity (1/Turn). The mage’s crazed mind can
influence reality. When the mage casts a spell that forces a
creature to attempt a saving throw, he can change the type of
saving throw that spell inflicts to another of his choice for the
spell’s duration (when applicable).
Mythic Resistance. When the mage fails a saving throw, he can
expend an unspent legendary action to succeed instead.
Spellcasting1. The mage is a 20th-level spellcaster. His
spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 26, +18 to hit
with spell attacks). The mage can prepare any spell from the
wizard spell list, up to a combined maximum of fifty spells, but
he typically has at least the following spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): light, mage hand, message, prestidigitation
1st level (at will): color spray, detect magic, mage armor,
magic missile, shield
2nd level (at will): arcane lock, hold person, knock, magic mouth
3rd level (at will): counterspell, dispel magic, fireball,
hypnotic pattern
4th level (6 slots): blight, confusion, hallucinatory terrain,
polymorph
5th level (5 slots): arcane hand, cloudkill, mislead, wall of force
6th level (4 slots): disintegrate, globe of invulnerability,
mass suggestion
7th level (3 slots): finger of death, plane shift, teleport
8th level (2 slots): dominate monster, maddening darkness*,
skeletal deliquescence2
9th level (2 slots): prismatic wall, psychic scream*
ACTIONS
Multiattack. The mage casts two spells, one of which must be a
spell of 5th level or lower. The mage can forgo casting a spell he
can cast at will to instead make an Arcane Fire attack or use his
Arcane Preparation action.
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Arcane Fire. Ranged Spell Attack: +18 to hit, range 600 ft.,
one target. Hit: 35 (10d4 + 10) fire damage plus 25 (10d4) force
damage.
Arcane Preparation. The mage replaces one of his prepared
spells with another wizard spell of his choice, provided he has
the necessary spell slots to do so.
Maniacal Laughter (Recharge 5–6). The Mad Mage emits a
peal of laughter that can be heard by creatures up to 120 feet
away. Each creature other than the mage that hears the laughter
must succeed on a DC 26 Wisdom saving throw or experience
a fragment of the mage’s insanity. The hallucinations alter the
victim’s perception of reality, fooling visual, tactile, and olfactory
senses and reducing its vision and senses to 30 feet (blinded and
deafened beyond this radius). The hallucinations only alter the
perception of things that already exist and do not trick the senses
into believing something exists when it does not:
• All objects and structures appear to be made of a type of food
delicious to the affected creature.
• All creatures appear in the guise of the mage, though they still
retain their shape.
• All terrain appears covered in eyeballs of various sizes, shapes,
and colors.
• All sound is replaced by ramblings in the mage’s voice,
preventing intelligible communication.
REACTIONS
Power Shield. As a reaction when the mage takes damage, he
can raise a shield of magical force to reduce the damage taken by
35 (10d6).
LEGENDARY ACTIONS
The mage can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the
options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at
a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The mage
regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.
Move. The mage moves up to his speed.
Quick Reflexes. The mage gains an additional reaction, which
lasts until the start of his next turn.
Perfect Focus (Costs 2 Actions). The mage chooses a spell he
is concentrating on. Until that spell ends, the mage cannot lose
concentration on it until he is knocked unconscious or killed.
Spell Empowerment (Costs 2 Actions). Until the end of his
next turn, the next spell the mage casts is cast as though he had
expended a 9th-level spell slot, regardless of the spell slot used to
cast the spell.
1 Spells marked with an asterisk can be found in the official 5E sourcebook XGE.
2 The spell skeletal deliquesce is described at the end of this chapter.
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Mythic Mad Mage
Medium mythic humanoid (human), chaotic evil
Armor Class 22 (force armor)
Hit Points 1,537 (123d8 + 984)
Speed 30 ft., teleport 60 ft. (to an unoccupied space he can see)
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
11 (+0) 14 (+2) 27 (+8) 36 (+13) 5 (−3) 25 (+7)
Saving Throws Str +9, Dex +11, Con +17, Int +22, Wis +6, Cha +16
Skills Arcana +30, History +30, Perception +6
Damage Immunities psychic
Senses passive Perception 16
Languages Common, plus four other languages determined randomly each day
Challenge Mythic 6
TRAITS
Arcane Insanity (1/Turn). The mage’s mind can influence reality. When
the mage casts a spell that forces a creature to attempt a saving throw, he
can change the type of saving throw that spell inflicts to another of his
choice for the spell’s duration (when applicable).
Mythic Resistance. When the mage fails a saving throw, he can expend an
unspent legendary action to succeed instead.
Spellcasting3. The mage is a 30th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability
is Intelligence (spell save DC 30, +22 to hit with spell attacks). The mage
can prepare any spell from the wizard spell list, up to a combined maximum
of seventy spells, but he typically has at least the following spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): light, mage hand, message, prestidigitation
1st level (at will): color spray, detect magic, mage armor,
magic missile, shield
2nd level (at will): arcane lock, hold person, knock, magic mouth
3rd level (at will): counterspell, dispel magic, fireball, hypnotic pattern
4th level (at will): blight, confusion, hallucinatory terrain, polymorph
5th level (at will): arcane hand, cloudkill, mislead, wall of force
6th level (5 slots): disintegrate, globe of invulnerability, mass suggestion
7th level (5 slots): finger of death, plane shift, teleport
8th level (4 slots): dominate monster, maddening darkness*, • All creatures appear in the guise of the mage, though they still retain
skeletal deliquesce4
9th level (4 slots): prismatic wall, psychic scream*
Epic Spells5
Tier 1 (4 slots): antimagic ray, infinity room, reverse magic, spell sequencer
Tier 2 (3 slots): force armor, prismatic deluge, temporal stasis
Tier 3 (2 slots): trial of arcane might
MYTHIC ACTIONS
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the mage takes a mythic
action to cause one of the following effects.
Arcane Instability. The mage becomes infused with unstable arcane
energies. If the Mad Mage is reduced to 0 hit points or slain, his body
explodes in a 300-foot-radius sphere of arcane power. Each creature in the
affected area must attempt a DC 30 Constitution saving throw, taking 110
(20d10) arcane damage on a failure, or half as much on a success. If the
Mad Mage uses this option again, this damage increases by 110 (20d10), to
a maximum of 550 (100d10). This increase is lost if the Mad Mage finishes
a short or long rest.
Multiple Personalities. The mage possesses multiple personalities which
emerge frequently in battle. When the mage takes this action, he rolls 1d4
and gains the benefits of the applicable personality. If the roll results in an
already emergent personality, the mage instead rerolls the d4.
• 1 Lucidity. The mage is his true self: honorable, all powerful, and evil.
While this personality is emergent, the mage has Epic advantage on
Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws and is immune to
spells of 9th level or lower.
3 Spells marked with an asterisk can be found in the official 5E sourcebook XGE.
4 The spell skeletal deliquesce is described at the end of this chapter.
5  All Epic spells in this list can be found in 2CGaming’s Epic Legacy Core Rulebook, except trial of arcane might,
which can be found in the Epic Legacy Campaign Codex and at the end of this chapter.
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• 2 Arcanopsychosis. The mage is stricken with magical hysteria. While
this personality is emergent, when a creature fails a saving throw against
a spell cast by the mage by 10 or more, it takes an additional 44 (8d10)
psychic damage.
• 3 Transpatial Delusions. The mage’s grasp on reality is tenuous at best,
allowing him to bend existence with his mind. While this personality
is emergent, any spells the mage casts do not require concentration for
their full duration.
• 4 Omnilomania. The mage believes himself an all-powerful being
suffused with magic. While this personality is emergent, whenever the
mage uses a legendary action, he also casts a spell of 5th level or lower as
a part of that action.
ACTIONS
Multiattack. The mage casts two spells, one of which must be a non-Epic
spell. The mage can forgo casting a spell he can cast at will to instead make
an Arcane Fire attack or use his Arcane Preparation action.
Arcane Fire. Ranged Spell Attack: +22 to hit, range 600 ft., one target. Hit:
112 (40d4 + 12) arcane damage.
Arcane Preparation. The mage replaces one of his prepared spells with
another wizard spell of his choice, provided he has the necessary spell slots
to do so.
Maniacal Laughter (Recharge 5–6). The Mad Mage emits a peal of
laughter that can be heard by creatures up to 120 feet away. Each creature
other than the mage that hears the laughter must succeed on a DC 30
Wisdom saving throw or experience a fragment of the mage’s insanity for
10 minutes. The hallucinations alter the victim’s perception of reality, fooling
visual, tactile, and olfactory senses and reducing its vision and senses to 10
feet (blinded and deafened beyond this radius). The hallucinations only alter
the perception of things that already exist and do not trick the senses into
believing something exists when it does not:
• All objects and structures appear to be made of a type of food delicious
to the affected creature.
their shape.
• All terrain appears covered in eyeballs of various sizes, shapes, and colors.
• All sound is replaced by ramblings in the mage’s voice, preventing
intelligible communication
• At the end of each of its turns, an affected creature can repeat the saving
throw, ending the effect on a success.
REACTIONS
Power Shield. As a reaction when the mage takes damage, he can raise a
shield of magical force to reduce the damage taken by 110 (20d10).
LEGENDARY ACTIONS
The mage can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below.
Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end
of another creature’s turn. The mage regains spent legendary actions at the
start of his turn.
Move. The mage moves up to his speed.
Quick Reflexes. The mage gains an additional reaction, which lasts until
the start of his next turn.
Perfect Focus (Costs 2 Actions). The mage chooses a spell he is
concentrating on. Until that spell ends, the mage cannot lose concentration
on it until he is knocked unconscious or killed.
Spell Empowerment (Costs 2 Actions). Until the end of his next turn,
the next spell the mage casts is cast as though he had expended a 9th-level
spell slot, regardless of the spell slot used to cast the spell.
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Resources
The Mad Mage possesses the following resources to further his
goals of absurd and dangerous magical experimentation.

ALLIES
The Mad Mage has no true allies. His lair is filled with countless
horrors unleashed upon its halls, none of which would call the
mage friend. Other powerful creatures have learned to coexist
with the mage through unknown means. So long as they are
not adventurers, the Mad Mage displays a shocking level of
tolerance to visitors to his domain, particularly if they are
powerful. Naturally, anything strong enough to challenge the
mage directly is obliterated, but more than a few dragons,
liches, and other creatures that covet power and wealth have
found common cause with the Mad Mage. At any moment,
the mage may betray these allies to conduct some experiment,
often involving the latest group of heroes to make the mistake
of invading his fortress.
Among the Mad Mage’s most prized subordinates are his
precious mutabeasts. These horrific creatures are the products of
truly deranged magic and misguided science. Possessing unstable

Mutabeast
Huge aberration, unaligned

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 310 (27d12 + 135)
Speed 50 ft., climb 50 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
24 (+7) 12 (+1) 21 (+5) 6 (−2) 1 (−5) 14 (+2)
Saving Throws Str +12, Dex +6, Con +10
Skills Athletics +12, Perception +5
Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic
Damage Immunities bludgeoning, piercing,
and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages a language invented by the Mad Mage
Challenge 15 (13,000 XP)
TRAITS
Inexplicable Changes. When the mutabeast makes an attack
roll or ability check, it rolls 1d4 and adds the roll to the result.
Monstrous Might (1/Turn). When the mutabeast attempts an
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, it can instead
attempt a Strength saving throw.
Volatile Biology. At the start of each of its turns, the
mutabeast’s body transforms. Roll 1d8, granting the mutabeast
the following benefits according to the result. Each benefit lasts
until the start of the mutabeast’s next turn.
1. Shredding Talons. The mutabeast’s attacks score a critical
hit on a roll of 16–20.
2. Explosive Pustules. When the mutabeast is hit by a weapon
attack by a creature within 10 feet of it, it erupts with acid
and deals 7 (2d6) damage to the attacking creature.
3. Reactive Skin. The mutabeast becomes invisible.
4. Arcane Regeneration. When the mutabeast takes
damage from a spell, it instead takes no damage and
regains a number of hit points equal to half the damage
it would have taken (rounded down, before resistances or
immunities).
5. Freakish Strength. The mutabeast gains a +5 bonus to attack
rolls and a +10 bonus to damage rolls with its melee weapon
attacks.
6. Spellhide. The mutabeast is immune to spells and magical
effects that do not deal damage.
7. Tentacle Growth. As a bonus action on its turns, the
mutabeast can make two tentacle attacks.
8. Rapid Mutation. Roll on this table again, rerolling
duplicates.
ACTIONS
Multiattack. The mutabeast makes one Chaos Bite attack
and three Tentacle attacks.
Chaos Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
creature. Hit: 29 (4d10 + 7) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6)
acid, cold, fire, lightning, or necrotic damage (mutabeasts’s
choice).
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 30 ft., one
target. Hit: 18 (2d10 + 7) bludgeoning damage, and if the target
is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 20).
Acid Spit (Recharge 5–6). Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit,
reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 77 (20d6 + 7) acid damage. This
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forms and loyalty only to the Mad Mage’s commands, these

horrors prowl the depths of the wizard’s mountainous home
in search of intruders to consume. Such spectacles are always a
delight for the Mad Mage to behold, and he takes any deaths of
his precious pets extremely seriously.
REWARDS
Over the centuries, the Mad Mage has acquired enough magic
items to make a dragon faint with ecstasy. While most of these
are of no personal use to the mage, he cunningly seeds them
throughout his dungeon in hopes of luring heroes in. The finest
treasures the Mad Mage keeps for himself. He does not use
them, of course, preferring a simple wooden staff and century-
old, tattered black robes. Instead, these mighty items are turned
toward the purpose of experimentation, generating some of the
mightiest magical effects found within the mage’s lair. Counted
among their number are several artifacts, and rumors persist of
relics of terrific power not seen for an age.
In addition to these formidable items, the Mad Mage is
known to possess an arsenal of exceedingly rare spells, some
of which originated from within his own twisted mind. These
strange magics are a testament to the mage’s remarkable power,
and the examples provided here are but a sample of the arcane
arts he has gathered from across the multiverse.
New Epic Spell: Trial of Arcane Might
Tier 3 Epic evocation (archmage only)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 1 mile
Components: V, S, M (10 years off the casters life; immortal
creatures instead develop a magical deformity)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You challenge another spellcaster within range to a duel of
magical might. You pour your magic through a conduit of energy
into a single creature with a spellcasting feature within range that
you can see. If your target does not have a spellcasting feature or
is unconscious, the spell dissipates harmlessly.
The affected creature can choose to contest your power, caus-
ing you and the creature to struggle for control over the spell’s
energies. If the creature chooses not to contest the spell, it takes
600 arcane damage and the spell ends. While the spell is in ef-
fect, either you or the affected creature can take an action to
make an Arcana (Spellcasting ability) check contested by an
Arcana (Spellcasting ability) check from the other creature. If
you or the creature loses two of these contests in a row, the spell
ends, and the loser takes 600 arcane damage. If you become un-
able to maintain concentration on the spell for any reason, you
immediately take 600 arcane damage. A creature reduced to 0 hit
points by this spell is utterly obliterated.

New Spell – Skeletal Deliquesce

8th-level transmutation (wizard only)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a cube of
gelatin)
Duration: Instantaneous
You attempt to reduce a flesh-and-
blood creature you can see within
range to a quivering mass of meat
by removing its skeleton. The tar-
get must succeed on a Constitution
saving throw or have its skeleton
vanish, falling prone and becom-
ing unable to stand up. A creature
with its skeleton so vanished has its
speed reduced to 10 feet and can-
not cast spells, attack, or perform
any action that requires the use
of its limbs. On each of its
turns, the target can use an
action to attempt a DC 16
Constitution ability check,
restoring its skeleton on a
success and ending the effect.

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