D&D 5E [GUIDE] Power Overwhelming: A Sorcerer Guide


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Tharizdun

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I have a half elf paladin 6 / sorcerer 10 as of this writing, wielding a staff of the magi. Casting quickened / distant aid or quickened or twinned cure wounds is amazing, quickened spells in combination with the multiattack and smite combo is a feast of damage.
 

Vulf

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Twincast Greenflame Blade is pretty intense. Though your table will have to ignore JC's insane brainfart where he thought the splash damage meant it had more than 1 target.

Getting within 5 feet of two enemies that are also adjacent to each other might be rare without a Swiftcast Lightning Lure. Talk to your DM about creating cantrips using the rules in the DMG. A Lightning Lure that targets 2 creatures would be stellar.
 
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Vulf

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Lightning Lure is pretty awful damage, you'd be better off twinning Firebolt, but it can be decent to Quicken it to cast as a bonus action and drag enemies into range of some Twinned melee cantrips that pour on the damage like Greenflame Blade.

If your DM is the sort that likes to use optional rules from the DMG, you can work with him to create new spells using the rules on pages 283-284.

The suggested modifications include adding more targets to spells but reducing the damage die, so you could have Lightning Lure target 2 enemies, but deal only 1d4 damage.

Take something like Greenflame Blade, make it deal Cold damage, and call it Frostblade.
Make Firebolt into Ice Lance by just changing the damage type to cold as well.
It would allow you to stick to a theme if your Sorcerous Origin was Silver Dragon.
There are tradeoffs involved, the same spell damage types would benefit from your Elemental Affinity, but you would be at a disadvantage against enemies immune to your origin's damage type.
 
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I love this guide. I was wondering where you'd place the Pyromancer origin from Planes Shift: Kaladesh (magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/plane-shift-kaladesh-2017-02-16) in it. I love this origin but no one's talking about it. (Google keeps giving me 3.5e threads.) So, thought?
 


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