Sacrosanct
Legend
Hah, that once more proves my grognard dm attitude to limit every selection so that such things among others do not occur.
But even if, like in your case, you go the modern anything goes way, your dm should have discussed your choice upfront with you, and made you aware, that your selection -while he allows it - would be more than suboptimal.
I'm not sure why this example proves that DMs have to limit every selection. I'm not even sure I know what you mean by that. And I don't know about "modern anything goes" either. Our DM told us what campaign we were going to be playing before we started. This isn't on him. this is on me for not realizing that there would naturally be a lot of devils in a campaign that takes place in hell. Also, I don't care about suboptimal. Never have. As I said in the OP, I'm still enjoying the character. Just a bit disappointed I didn't think ahead and realize how many of the defining class features (that make the shadow sorcerer different from every other sorcerer) are significantly neutered in this type of campaign.