D&D (2024) Sorcerers getting Chaos Bolt automatically

[Weiley31]

So, the 2024 Sorcerer is going to be less about "it was the booty that did this to you" and now more "It was the Numbers that did it to you."

Which means if you were a Warforged sorcerer...

 

[Incenjucar]

Why? It's one thing they get.

"I am the great great great grandchild of Smoothie the Red Wyrm. Using the fire that is in my bloodline, I conjure forth my ancestral magic and deal rolls ice damage."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"I am the great great great grandchild of Smoothie the Red Wyrm. Using the fire that is in my bloodline, I conjure forth my ancestral magic and deal rolls ice damage."

That's assuming the wild magic table isn't changing as well.

Put this in the feedback when the time comes -- wild magic should probably affect intensity, target and other variables, not damage type for this very reason.

 

[Zaukrie]

That's assuming the wild magic table isn't changing as well.

Put this in the feedback when the time comes -- wild magic should probably affect intensity, target and other variables, not damage type for this very reason.

This. I'd have chaos bolt do "chaos damage" which isn't a thing....so maybe it does a damage type related to your bloodline (or whatever it is called), and then some oddball effect sometimes.

 

[Weiley31]

"I am the great great great grandchild of Smoothie the Red Wyrm. Using the fire that is in my bloodline, I conjure forth my ancestral magic and deal rolls ice damage."

Sorcerer PC: Damn I hate puberty!

 

[Vael]

My assumption is this gives Sorcerers a standard hadoken blast and each type of Sorcerer will flavour it their own way. Dragon Sorcerers, for example, can always fire a bolt that deals their chosen elemental type. Shadow Sorcerers can make it deal necrotic damage, etc.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

"I am the great great great grandchild of Smoothie the Red Wyrm. Using the fire that is in my bloodline, I conjure forth my ancestral magic and deal rolls ice damage."

They indicated that somehow subclasses will change how the spell works, so at least by 3rd level I doubt that happens.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Sorcerer PC: Damn I hate puberty!

A D&D X-Men made up of sorcerers would be a fun take on the class.

 

[Incenjucar]

At a certain point it makes more sense to make a new spell entirely.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Seems like it's going to be harder to flavor a sorcerer as having a specific magical ancestry this way.

Wild Magic unlike Dragonblooded, Divine Soul, Shadow Magic, Storm Magic, Psionic Soul, and Clockwork Soul felt less connected to ancestory type thing, and more a type of magic with a long history in D&D. So I think they are trying to play it up as Sorcerer magic is innately, but some how connected to that, unstable inheriantly, but its origin is still ancestory based, its just now the nature of sorcerers that they are unstable no matter what their ancestory.