Dungeons & Dragons 5e Class Features : Sorcerer
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Sorcerer
hit dice:
1d6 per sorcerer level
hit points at 1st level:
6 + your Constitution modifier
hit points at higher levels:
1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per sorcerer level after 1st
armor proficiencies:
None
weapon proficiencies:
Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
tools:
None
saving throws:
Constitution, Charisma
skills:
Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Insight,
Intimidation, Persuasion, and Religion
starting equipment:
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple
weapon
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• Two daggers
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple
weapon
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• Two daggers
spellcasting:
An event in your past, or in the life of a parent or
ancestor, left an indelible mark on you, infusing you with
arcane magic. This font of magic, whatever its origin,
fuels your spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of
spellcasting and chapter 11 for the sorcerer spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know four cantrips of your choice from
the Sorcerer Spell List. You learn additional sorcerer
cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the
Cantrips Known column of the Sorcerer Table.
Spell Slots
The Sorcerer Table shows how many spell slots you
have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast
one of these sorcerer spells, you must expend a slot of
the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell
slots when you finish a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell burning
hands and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot
available, you can cast burning hands using either slot.
Spells
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the
Sorcerer Spell List.
The Spells Known column of the Sorcerer table
shows when you learn more sorcerer spells of your
choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which
you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 3rd
level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st
or 2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class,
you can choose one of the sorcerer spells you know
and replace it with another spell from the sorcerer
spell list, which also must be of a level for which you
have spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability
Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your sorcerer
spells, since the pow er of your m agic relies on your
ability to project your w ill into the world. You use your
Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting
ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier
when setting the saving throw DC for a sorcerer spell
you cast and w hen making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier
Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus (found in chapter 5) as a
spellcasting focus for your sorcerer spells. class features:
Sorcerous Origin: Choose a sorcerous origin, which describes the source of your innate magical power: Vampiric Bloodline or Wild Magic, both detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 1st level and again at 6th, 14th, and 18th level. Font of Magic At 2nd level, you tap into a deep wellspring of magic within yourself. This wellspring is represented by sorcery points, which allow you to create a variety of magical effects. Sorcery Points: You have 2 sorcery points, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Sorcery Points column of the Sorcerer table. You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long rest. Flexible Casting: You can use your sorcery points to gain additional spell slots, or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points. You learn other ways to use your sorcery points as you reach higher levels. Creating Spell Slots. You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating Spell Slots table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level. You can create spell slots no higher in level than 5th.
Converting a Spell Slot to Sorcery Points. As a
bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell
slot and gain a number of sorcery points equal to the
slot’s level.
Metamagic. At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your spells to suit your needs. You gain two of the Metamagic Options of your choice, listed below. You gain another one at 10th and 17th level. You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless otherwise noted.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th,
and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your
choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of
your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability
score above 20 using this feature.
Sorcerous Restoration
At 20th level, you regain 4 expended sorcery points
whenever you finish a short rest.
Metamagic Options:
3rd, 10th and 17th level feature.
Careful Spell
When you cast a spell that forces other creatures to make
a saving throw, you can protect some of those creatures
from the spell’s full force. To do so, you spend 1 sorcery
point and choose a number o f those creatures up to your
Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature). A chosen
creature automatically succeeds on its saving throw
against the spell.
Distant Spell
When you cast a spell that has a range of 5 feet or
greater, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double the
range of the spell.
When you cast a spell that has a range of touch, you
can spend 1 sorcery point to make the range of the
spell 30 feet.
Empowered Spell
When you roll damage for a spell, you can spend 1
sorcery point to reroll a number of the damage dice up
to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). You must
use the new rolls.
You can use Empowered Spell even if you have
already used a different Metamagic option during the
casting of the spell.
Extended Spell
When you cast a spell that has a duration of 1 minute
or longer, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double its
duration, to a maximum duration of 24 hours.
Hightened Spell
When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a
saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 sorcery
points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its
first saving throw made against the spell.
Quickened Spell
When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action,
you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting
time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
Subtle Spell
When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to
cast it without any somatic or verbal components.
Twinned Spell
When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and
doesn’t have a range of self, you can spend a number of
sorcery points equal to the spell’s level to target a second
creature in range with the sam e spell (1 sorcery point if
the spell is a cantrip).
Sorcerous Origin: Choose a sorcerous origin, which describes the source of your innate magical power: Vampiric Bloodline or Wild Magic, both detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 1st level and again at 6th, 14th, and 18th level. Font of Magic At 2nd level, you tap into a deep wellspring of magic within yourself. This wellspring is represented by sorcery points, which allow you to create a variety of magical effects. Sorcery Points: You have 2 sorcery points, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Sorcery Points column of the Sorcerer table. You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long rest. Flexible Casting: You can use your sorcery points to gain additional spell slots, or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points. You learn other ways to use your sorcery points as you reach higher levels. Creating Spell Slots. You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating Spell Slots table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level. You can create spell slots no higher in level than 5th.
| Spell Slot Level | Sorcery Point Cost |
|---|---|
| 1st | 2 |
| 2nd | 3 |
| 3rd | 5 |
| 4th | 6 |
| 5th | 7 |
subclass options:
Vampiric Bloodline:
Your innate magic comes from vamprism,
mingled with your blood or that of your ancestors. Sometimes, sorcerers with this origin trace their descent
back to a mighty sorcerer of ancient times who made a
bargain with Molag Bal, the Deadric prince of vampirism. Some of these bloodlines are well
established in the world, but most are obscure. Any
given sorcerer could be the first of a new bloodline, as a
result of a pact or some other exceptional circumstance.
Vampirism
As a Vampire you are classed as Undead, you will not age past maturity, you can no longer eat or drink without incurring sickness but must feed on the blood of sentient living beings to survive. (Animal blood will surfice but nowhere near as effectively) Or else slowly succumb to feral vampirism. As a vampire gain Darkvision (Superior Darkvision if belonging to a race with Darkvision already). You also have Immunity to Disease (including lycanthropy, the Path of the Werewolf is locked to you.) and gain the Minor Illusion cantrip if you don't already know it. However, in direct sunlight, your Vampire blood boils. Causing a discomfort that exposes your vampric nature to all observers. This effect can be negated using the Disguise Self spell if you know it. While in direct sunlight, you also have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. At all times, also suffer a Vulnerability to Radiance.
Vampires Bite
As a bonus action, any living creature within 5 feet that is grappled by you, incapacitated, or restrained, takes (1d4) piercing damage plus (1d6) necrotic damage. The target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and you regain hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. At 7th Level becomes (2d4) piercing damage plus (2d6) necrotic damage. At 11th level becomes (2d4+2) piercing damage plus (3d6) necrotic damage. Hits with this attack count as feeding and have a chance to cause sanguinare vampiris.
Vampires Claws. Your unarmed strikes now deal (1d4) slashing damage and count as having light and finesse properties. At 3rd level becomes (1d4+1) slashing damage, at 7th level becomes (1d6+1) slashing damage and at 11th level becomes (1d6+2) slashing damage.
Undead Magics
At 5th Level, if you know the spell Vampiric Touch, the spell is improved and becomes Vampiric Drain. Which gives the spell a range of 15ft, the range rising to 30ft at 15th level. Hits with this attack count as feeding and have a chance to cause sanguinare vampiris. Also gain Sapping Sting, successful attacks with this cantrip will also drain health equal to the necrotic damage, count as feeding and have a chance to cause sanguinare vampiris. As an undead creature you will also gain the spells Vampire's Seduction and Animate Dead, niether will count against the number of spells you can know as a Sorcerer. Additionally, whenever you use frost magic you can spend 1 sorcery point to gain Frost Resistance for 1 hour.
Bats Wings
At 14th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of
bats wings from your back, gaining a flying speed
equal to your current speed. You can create these wings
as a bonus action on your turn. They last until you
dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn.
You can’t manifest your wings while wearing armor
unless the armour is made to accommodate them, and
clothing not made to accommodate your wings might
be destroyed when you manifest them.
Additionally whenever you use Misty Step if you know it. If you choose, you instead transform into a cloud of bats while teleporting who fly immediately in a direct line to the location you teleport to. While in this form, if your teleportation causes you to pass through the space occupied by another creature you immediately cast Sapping Sting and heal by a number of hitpoints equal to the necrotic damage dealt. Instead of using a spell slot you can also immediately expend 2 sorcery points to cast misty step this way.
Vampiric Presence
Beginning at 18th level, you can channel the dread
presence of your vampiric ancestry, causing those around
you to become charmed or frightened. As an action,
you can spend 5 sorcery points to draw on this power
and exude an aura of seduction or fear (your choice) to a
distance of 60 feet. For 1 minute or until you lose your
concentration (as if you were casting a concentration
spell), each hostile creature that starts its turn in this
aura must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be
charmed or frightened until the aura ends. A creature that succeeds on
this saving throw is immune to your aura for 24 hours.
Wild Magic:
Your innate magic comes from the wild forces of chaos
that underlie the order of creation. You might have
endured exposure to some form of raw magic, perhaps you
were the victim of one of Sheogoraths practical jokes. Or your magic could be a fluke of your birth, with
no apparent cause or reason. However it came to be, this
chaotic magic churns within you, waiting for any outlet.
Wild Magic Surge
Starting when you choose this origin at 1st level, your
spellcasting can unleash surges of untamed magic.
Immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level
or higher, the DM can have you roll a d20. If you roll a
1, roll on the Wild Magic Surge table to create a random
magical effect.
Tides of Chaos
Starting at 1st level, you can manipulate the forces of
chance and chaos to gain advantage on one attack roll,
ability check, or saving throw. Once you do so, you must
finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.
Any time before you regain the use of this feature, the
DM can have you roll on the Wild Magic Surge table
immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or
higher. You then regain the use of this feature.
Bend Luck
Starting at 6th level, you have the ability to twist fate
using your wild magic. When another creature you can
see makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving
throw, you can use your reaction and spend 2 sorcery
points to roll 1d4 and apply the number rolled as a
bonus or penalty (your choice) to the creature’s roll. You can do so after the creature rolls but before any effects
of the roll occur.
Controlled Chaos
At 13th level, you gain a modicum of control over the
surges of your wild magic. Whenever you roll on the
Wild Magic Surge table, you can roll twice and use
either number.
Double Trouble
At 9th level, whenever you roll on the Wild Magic table and experience the effect. You can choose to roll again for a second burst of wild magic.
Spell Bombardment
Beginning at 18th level, the harmful energy of your
spells intensifies. When you roll damage for a spell and
roll the highest number possible on any of the dice,
choose one of those dice, roll it again and add that roll to
the damage. You can use the feature only once per turn.
Level | Proficency Bonus | Sorcery Points | Features | Cantrips Known | Spells Known | Spell Slots Per Level - 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | - | Spellcasting, Vampirism, Vampires Bite/Wild Magic Surge, Tides of Chaos | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2nd | +2 | 2 | Font of Magic | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 3rd | +2 | 3 | Metamagic | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 4th | +2 | 4 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 5th | +3 | 5 | Undead Magics | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 6th | +3 | 6 | Bend Luck | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 7th | +3 | 7 | Vampires Bite | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 8th | +3 | 8 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 9th | +4 | 9 | Double Trouble | 5 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
| 10th | +4 | 10 | Metamagic | 6 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | |
| 11th | +4 | 11 | Vampires Bite | 6 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | |
| 12th | +4 | 12 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | |
| 13th | +5 | 13 | Controlled Chaos | 6 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| 14th | +5 | 14 | Bats Wings | 6 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| 15th | +5 | 15 | Undead Magics | 6 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| 16th | +5 | 16 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| 17th | +6 | 17 | Metamagic | 6 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 18th | +6 | 18 | Vampiric Presence/Spell Bombardment | 6 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 19th | +6 | 19 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 20th | +6 | 20 | Sorcerous Restoration | 6 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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