Sorcerers

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Raw natural spellcasters who bend arcane power to their will, sorcerers reshape the very elements of the world.

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Sorcerer Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Constitution
Starting Hit Points: 4 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d4
Languages: You can read the Arcane language.
Proficiencies: You are Trained in Initiative and Arcane Magic and its Arcane Defense, Detect Magic, and Dispel Magic features.
Skills: You can select three Skills.

Sorcerer Features

Sorcecraft

You add your Constitution modifier to damage with Sorcery and cantrips

Sorcery

As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to produce a powerful Arcane Magic evocation known as Sorcery. Your Sorcery Points (as defined in The Sorcerer table) allow you to alter its effects. Sorcery requires verbal and somatic components.

Boon Option: Increase the number of Sorcery Points your Sorcery generates by one.

Spellcasting

You know two of the following cantrips:

Affect Normal Fires, Mage Hand, Light
Plus three of the following cantrips:
Acid Orb, Produce Element (orison), Ray of Frost (cantrip), Thunderwave (cantrip/orison).
You also know one of the following rituals:
Feather Fall, Obscuring Mist, Stone Shape, Water Breathing.
At each level after 1st, you learn an additional cantrip or ritual from these lists. You treat all orisons in these lists as cantrips and divine rituals as arcane rituals.
At level 4, you can select from the following rituals as well:
Fog Cloud, Gust of Wind, Meld into Stone, Quench, Resist Elements, Water Walk.
At level 7, you can additionally select rituals from:
Air Walk, Fly, Gaseous Form, Solid Fog, Transmute Earth and Stone, and Wall of Ice.

The Sorcerer

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Sorcery Points	Title
1	Sorcerer Features, Sorcecraft, Sorcery, Spellcasting	4	1	Dabbler
2	Elemental Preparation	5	2
3	Sorcerous Blood, Sorcerous Tongue	5	2	Manipulator
4	Boon	6	3
5	Valor	6	3
6	Sorcerous Blood Feature	7	4	Thaumaturge
7	Boon	7	4
8	Sorcerous Blood Feature	8	5	Mageblood
9	Boon	8	5
10	Heroism	9	6

LEVEL 2 Sorcerers

Elemental Preparation

After spending a minute in Concentration, you can spend a hero's surge to prepare an arcane ritual you know. You can cast this prepared ritual as an action.

Boon Option: You can cast a prepared ritual once per turn as part of your turn.

Explosive Defenses

As a Hampering Effect on an Arcane Defense attempt, you can push yourself 10' away from the triggering attack.

LEVEL 3 Sorcerers

Sorcerous Blood

At level 3, your use of the arcane unlocks more of the power bound in your veins. Choose your Sorcerous Blood.

Elementalist

Elementalists

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Through childhood exposure, ancestral connection, a scarring accident, or something similar, your blood is bonded to the elements.

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Elemental Blood

Rituals you prepare with your Elemental Preparation feature grant you Damage Reduction to their associated element equal to your Constitution modifier.

Boon Option: Gain Resistance to such elements as well.

Elemental Spur

Once per round when a creature you can see casts or is affected by a magical elemental effect, you can allow it to move 5'.

Elemental Path

You are immune to the repercussion effects of your Sorcery and can move through or atop them safely.

Boon Option: For each 5' of movement you spend moving through or atop your repercussion effects, you can move 10'.

Shape Sorcery

You can choose to leave 5' squares within your Sorcery unaffected by it.

Boon Option: You can additionally exempt specific objects or creatures from the effects of your Sorcery.

LEVEL 6 Elementalist

Elementalism

You learn Arcane Magic's Manipulate Magic feature, though you can only attempt to manipulate elemental effects.

Roiling Strength

Increase the number of Sorcery Points your Sorcery generates by the number of rituals you have prepared with your Elemental Preparation feature.

LEVEL 8 Elementalist

Elemental Stride

Your Sorcery opens a window to an elemental plane that you can step through. After using your Sorcery, you can teleport to any square within or adjacent to its effect.

Overpowering Elements

Your elemental Arcane Magic is so powerful creatures possessing elemental resistances struggle to escape unscathed. Your cantrips and Sorcery downgrade any elemental Absorption their target possesses to Immunity, any Immunity to Resistance, and ignore Resistance altogether. In addition, you ignore elemental Damage Reduction up to the number of odd levels you possess.

Tainted Blood

Tainted Blood Sorcerers

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Your blood was gifted magic through a powerful creature such as a dragon, unicorn, or lycanthrope, and as you grow in power, features of that creature begin to emerge.

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Compelling Blood

Once per turn when a creature you can see within 30' takes damage, you can allow it to move 5' closer to you.

Emergent Hide

Your skin toughens into patterns resembling your wild blood creature type. Choose a type of Non-Physical Damage, such as force, necrotic, or psychic. You gain Damage Reduction 2 to Physical Damage and your chosen damage type. In addition, at each odd level after 6th, select an additional Non-Physical Damage type to reduce.

Boon Option: Increase this Damage Reduction by 1.

Emergent Limbs

When you use Elemental Preparation, your body sprouts new appendages based on the prepared ritual's element.

• Air: You grow wings and can glide a distance up to the distance you fall, taking no falling damage.
• Earth: You grow a set of insect-like legs and gain a climb speed equal to your speed.
• Fire: You grow a gland-like appendage that can spout a rush of superheated air, allowing you to safely jump distances up to your Constitution score.
• Water: You grow a tail and gain a swim speed equal to your speed.

You can only have one Emergent Limb active at one time, which you select when you use Elemental Preparation. If you cast the prepared ritual granting the limb, the limb retracts, though another limb can grow immediately afterward if you have another ritual prepared.
Boon Option: Have an additional limb active at a time.

LEVEL 6 Tainted Blood Sorcerer

Greater Emergence

When you channel your greatest powers, might emanates from your blood. After using your Sorcery feature, choose one of the following options to gain for the next minute, based on your current emergences.

• Gland: Double your jumping distance. In addition, creatures in spaces you jump over must resist your Arcane Magic with their Dexterity or take 2d6 fire damage.
• Hide: Spikes grow from your hide. Creatures who hit you with melee attacks take piercing damage equal to your Emergent Hide's Damage Reduction value.
• Legs: You gain Blindsight to a distance of 30'. If you already have Blindsight, you gain truesight in the distance your Blindsights overlap.
• Tail: You gain the ability to breathe water and walk atop liquids. In addition, while swimming or water walking, double your speed.
• Wings: You gain a fly speed equal to your speed.

LEVEL 8 Tainted Blood Sorcerer

Manifestation

The magical creature in your blood emerges into its most powerful state. Choose one of the following manifestations.

• Antennae: You gain Blindsight to a distance of 15'.
• Blood: At the start of any turn after you take damage greater than your Emergent Hide's Damage Reduction value, you regain hit points equal to your Emergent Hide's Damage Reduction value.
• Fangs: Once per turn when you critically hit an enemy with your Sorcery or a cantrip, you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier.
• Horns: Add your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier to damage with your Sorcery and cantrips.

Boon Option: Gain an additional manifestation.

Wild Magic

Wild Magic Sorcerers

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Your sorcery stems from an encounter with powerful magicks, and as you grow stronger its infection begins to break forth from you with unpredictable results.

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Magic Conduit

When a magical effect is unleashed within 30' of you, make a Luck Roll. When the result is lucky, you can allow a creature within 30' to move 5'.

Boon Option: Increase the distance moved to 10'.

Wild Blood

When you are critically hit by an attack or roll a 20 on an Arcane Defense attempt, roll 1d6 and apply the following effect until the end of your next turn.

1. You are slowed
2. You gain a swim speed equal to your speed
3. You gain a climb speed equal to your speed
4. Your speed is doubled
5. You gain a fly speed equal to your own
6. You gain a teleport speed equal to your speed

Wild Magic

Whenever you cast a spell or ritual or unleash your Sorcery, choose if you wish to tap into Wild Magic. Then make a Luck Roll to determine if you get your wish. If your Wild Magic comes into effect, roll 1d100 and consult the Wild Magic Effects table to determine what happens.

Wild Magic effects occur after your triggering magic and within its area of effect unless otherwise noted. If you did not target an area with the triggering magic, the effect instead occurs to you. Effects that are not instantaneous end as specified or when you roll a new Wild Magic effect. Spells cast by this feature are cast at their minimum level as if you were the caster.

LEVEL 6 Wild Magic Sorcerer

Bloody Chaos

When you are critically hit by a spell or spell-like effect, make a Luck Roll. If the result is unlucky, the spell and its caster are affected as if they employed your Wild Magic. A creature with more hit points than your maximum can spend an attack to end this effect.

Boon Option: Choose whether or not you are affected by this additional Wild Magic effect.

Wild Defenses

Before making an Arcane Defense attempt, you can choose to do so with Advantage. After doing so, your next Arcane Defense attempt suffers Disadvantage.

Boon Option: You can also use this feature with your cantrips.

LEVEL 8 Wild Magic Sorcerer

Bridle Chaos

If you spend a Fortune Die and it doesn't produce the desired effect, you can retract your use of it.

Sorcerer Wild Magic Effects

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1d100	Wild Magic	Effect
1	Temporal	Make a Luck Roll. If lucky, you gain an extra action that cannot be interrupted. On a 20, you instead gain an extra turn that cannot be interrupted. If unlucky, you are Stunned until the end of your next turn. On a 1, you are Stunned. At the end of each turn while Stunned, you can make a Constitution check to attempt to end the effect.
2-4	Dispelling	Make a Luck Roll. If unlucky, this effect replaces your triggering magic. A Dispel Magic spell affects the area as if cast by you. Unlike normal dispel magic spells, this effect is capable of disenchanting magic items permanently.
5-7	Disconcerting	The triggering magic briefly floats numbers and words in the Arcane language over the heads of creatures in its area, describing all details of its effect.
8-10	Divination Shift	You lose access to your Sorcery and Spellcasting features and instead know Divination cantrips and spells of a random level no greater than the number of odd levels you possess. As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to cast these spells.
11-13	Reduced	The area of the triggering magic is halved.
14-16	Extravagant	Your triggering magic is replaced by an eruption of colorful effects over the area.
17-19	Stinking	A Stinking Cloud spell affects the area for 3 rounds.
20-22	Abjuration Shift	You lose access to your Sorcery and Spellcasting features and instead know Abjuration cantrips and spells of a random level no greater than the number of odd levels you possess. As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to cast these spells.
24-26	Awkward	Intelligent creatures witnessing the triggering magic immediately feel a moment of intense awkwardness.
27-29	Minimized	All effects of the triggering magic are minimized.
30-33	Silencing	A Silence spell affects the area for 1 minute.
34-36	Enlarged	The area of the triggering magic is doubled.
37-39	Displacing	You become displaced in space and time. When a creature or object attempts to interact with you, make a Luck Roll. If you are lucky, you vanish, reappearing where you were after the interaction. On an unlucky result, this effect ends. On a 20, you can ignore one unlucky result. On a 1, this effect is transferred to the creature or object attempting to interact with you. This effect also ends when you lose consciousness or roll a new Wild Magic Effect.
40-42	Hilarious	An Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter spell affects creatures in the area for 1 minute.
43-45	Maximized	All dice of the triggering magic are maximized.
46-48	Illusion Shift	You lose access to your Sorcery and Spellcasting features and instead know Illusion cantrips and spells of a random level no greater than the number of odd levels you possess. As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to cast these spells.
49-51	Glittering	A Glitterdust spell affects the area for 1d4 rounds.
52-54	Transmutation Shift	You lose access to your Sorcery and Spellcasting features and instead know Transmutation cantrips and spells of a random level no greater than the number of odd levels you possess. As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to cast these spells.
55-57	Slippery	A Grease spell affects the area for 1 minute. If you did not target an area, it affects your clothing instead.
58-60	Chaotic	If the triggering magic rolls dice, roll a d6 and use the corresponding dice instead: 1: d4. 2: d6. 3: d8. 4: d10. 5: d12. 6: d20.
61-63	Musical	Music plays within the area. If you did not target an area, it emanates from you instead.
64-66	Illusory Wall	An spell surrounds the area. If the triggering magic had no target, you are surrounded by this wall instead.
67-69	Slimed	Harmless slime splats over the area.
70-72	Infatuating	If one or more creatures are affected by the triggering magic, make a Luck Roll. If you're lucky, one target falls madly in love with you. If you're unlucky, you fall madly in love with it. An affected creature can attempt to end this effect at the end of its turns by succeeding on a Wisdom check. This effect also ends when the affected creature loses consciousness.
73-76	Piercing	Creatures attempting to resist the triggering magic do so at Disadvantage.
77-79	Cold	A Wall of Ice spell surrounds the area. If the triggering magic had no target, you are surrounded by a hemispheric wall of ice instead.
80-83	Enchantment Shift	You lose access to your Sorcery and Spellcasting features and instead know Enchantment cantrips and spells of a random level no greater than the number of odd levels you possess. As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to cast these spells.
84-86	Relocating	You can teleport yourself and any creature you can see within the area to an unoccupied space you can see within the area. If you targeted no creature with the triggering magic, you can teleport yourself to a space you can see instead.
87-89	Permanent	If the triggering magic has a duration, the duration becomes Permanent while you remain conscious.
90-92	Lightning	You gain the effects of the spell for the next minute.
93-95	Baby Animals	The triggering magic appears to be delivered by adorable baby animals. If your triggering magic had no visible effect, adorable baby animals appear around you for one round, staring in disappointment.
96-98	Fire	You gain the effects of the Fire Shield spell for 1 minute.
99	Earth	You gain the effects of the Stoneskin spell for 1 hour.
100	Blood	Blood sprays from your fingers, and you take ¼ of your maximum hit points in True Damage. Make a Luck Roll. If unlucky, this effect replaces the triggering magic. If lucky, you add the amount of this true damage to damage, hit points affected, or healing done by the triggering magic. On a 20, increase your maximum hit points by the same amount. On a 1, reduce them instead.

Sorcerous Tongue

Your raw magical talent is undeniable. Choose a type of creature that your blood may have been touched by, such as unicorn, salamander, djinn, or dragon. Your Reknown extends to such creatures and you gain the ability to speak and understand their language.