Alternate Sorcerer [Archive] - Wizards Community

Alternate Sorcerer [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Mirikon
12-03-04, 04:22 PM Ok, here's the idea. Everything about this sorcerer is the same as the SRD, with the addition of some bonus feats, as follows:

1) Draconic Heritage
5) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat
10) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat
15) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat
20) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat

What do you think?
TheDarkestOfAngels
12-03-04, 04:36 PM Ok, here's the idea. Everything about this sorcerer is the same as the SRD, with the addition of some bonus feats, as follows:

1) Draconic Heritage
5) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat
10) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat
15) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat
20) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat

What do you think?
I think the draconic heritage feats put the sorcerer into a predetermined flavor that I don't think should exist. With bonus feats, it allows a player to take them as regular feats, but as bonus feats, they suggest that sorcerers are dragon-casters.
Sorcerers are terrible at item creation and, flavor-wise, it doesn't fit what the sorcerer is supposed to be -- a natural talent vs. the wizard's more learned and studious nature, which leads the wizard into more of a crafter-type than what a sorcerer would be. But I'm less opposed to item creation than I am with the draconic heritage feats.
Perhaps just have the bonus feats be bonus metamagic, and item creation feats. If you're looking for some extra choices, perhaps adding spell focus, greater spell focus, extra spell, and some of those other indispensible caster tools the sorcerer's way. But just a few extra choices. Not too many.
Arcane Guyver
12-03-04, 04:55 PM It'd be better if you replaced the Draconic feats with heritage feats (which would include those feats, along with bloodline feats from Dragon #311 and 325), and replace the Item Creation feats with Extra Spell.

I'm also opposed to Item Creation feats, because not only are Wizards more likely to get more use out of them, there's a whole base class based around item creation (the artificer).

OR...every sorcerer could just automatically gain the benefits of a minor bloodline (from Unearthed Arcana) without taking a bloodline level. If I weren't playing in Eberron, I'd be all for that idea.

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Mirikon 12-03-04, 04:22 PM	Ok, here's the idea. Everything about this sorcerer is the same as the SRD, with the addition of some bonus feats, as follows: 1) Draconic Heritage 5) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat 10) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat 15) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat 20) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat What do you think?
TheDarkestOfAngels 12-03-04, 04:36 PM	Ok, here's the idea. Everything about this sorcerer is the same as the SRD, with the addition of some bonus feats, as follows: 1) Draconic Heritage 5) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat 10) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat 15) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat 20) Any Draconic, Metamagic, or Item Creation Feat What do you think? I think the draconic heritage feats put the sorcerer into a predetermined flavor that I don't think should exist. With bonus feats, it allows a player to take them as regular feats, but as bonus feats, they suggest that sorcerers are dragon-casters. Sorcerers are terrible at item creation and, flavor-wise, it doesn't fit what the sorcerer is supposed to be -- a natural talent vs. the wizard's more learned and studious nature, which leads the wizard into more of a crafter-type than what a sorcerer would be. But I'm less opposed to item creation than I am with the draconic heritage feats. Perhaps just have the bonus feats be bonus metamagic, and item creation feats. If you're looking for some extra choices, perhaps adding spell focus, greater spell focus, extra spell, and some of those other indispensible caster tools the sorcerer's way. But just a few extra choices. Not too many.
Arcane Guyver 12-03-04, 04:55 PM	It'd be better if you replaced the Draconic feats with heritage feats (which would include those feats, along with bloodline feats from Dragon #311 and 325), and replace the Item Creation feats with Extra Spell. I'm also opposed to Item Creation feats, because not only are Wizards more likely to get more use out of them, there's a whole base class based around item creation (the artificer). OR...every sorcerer could just automatically gain the benefits of a minor bloodline (from Unearthed Arcana) without taking a bloodline level. If I weren't playing in Eberron, I'd be all for that idea.