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Just a quick initial thought for now: it seems to me you have nothing to lose by putting 15 in WIS and 14 in DEX before racials. At level 3 you at least get +3 WIS that way and can bump DEX to +3 at level 4 just as easily as you could bump both to +3.

So you essentially want to make PECOTA for D&D...

You might have an easier time divorcing conditions from durations if you break up the existing conditions into their component ingredients, and try to assign some kind of point value to those ingredients. For example, most conditions consist of some combination of: 1. adv/disadv on ability...

The only situations I can think of where this would come up (since there's no hope of actually completing a ritual during a fight) are (a) you're attacked mid-ritual and don't want to start over, but you still have some things you can do to contribute (e.g., by directing your undead minions), or...

Yeah, I guess that's the most direct reading of the text as written. So you can't cast spiritual weapon once you've started the ritual, though you could have cast spiritual weapon prior to starting the ritual, and use your bonus action to attack with it. You could also use your bonus action to...

Hmm, so does every turn during which you are casting the ritual count as casting a spell and thus prohibit you from casting bonus action spells?

Yes, I don't see why not. It's just like if you were maintaining concentration on any other spell that used your action each round (Witch Bolt, Crown of Madness, Call Lightning,...).

Yeah, it's probably the best single target damage spell --- but you have to be in melee with two creatures, which, again, is not usually where a sorcerer wants to be. I could see it for a multiclass build though.

I thought about that, but I'm not sure you want to funnel two half of two characters' incoming damage to you as a sorcerer.

I don't think so because the target is not a creature when you cast it.

Divine Soul is a subclass that I find really interesting and want to try out, but it's tough to come up with many new metamagic synergies from the cleric list. There are a number of touch spells that can become ranged using distant spell (Inflict/Cure Wounds, Bestow Curse, Contagion), and...

Yeah, Polymorph only works as an offensive buff because CR and PC level aren't on the same scale, so you can get a power boost by targeting PCs with it. You still get the extra HP pool if you cast it on skeletons, but I don't think that's worth concentration, a 4th level slot, and 4 SP.

I think I would allow hit dice to be spent whenever, as long as you are not currently in combat, to eliminate the annoying "should we take a short rest now" question, and assign short rest resources a hit die cost to recharge during the day (not instead of using them for healing, but in...

Yeah, if there aren't two targets, then it works out better than SG, at least if you aren't planning on using any other spell slots. Still, strikes me as pretty situational; how often are you facing only one enemy where it's not the type of fight where you want to go nova?

So, best case, factoring in OAs gets them to stay put regardless, and so you're doing the flaming sphere damage twice per round, which brings it even with the two-target spirit guardians damage after the 50% discount.

Now, I guess with OAs, if there are other melee allies threatening them, they might choose to stay put even on turns when you miss, since the OAs alone could be worse than the flaming sphere damage. If that's the case, then you drop that 0.6 factor on the end of turn damage, which helps.

Yes, I agree. But I was already assuming that's what they did. So using a 5th level slot, we get: Flaming Sphere: 14 (BA) + 14*0.6 (end of their turn) = 22.4 Spirit Guardians (one target): 5*4.5*0.8 (start of their turn) = 18 Still better to use SG if there are even 2 targets, even with a 50%...

The one situation I can see where OAs help the case is that if you have two enemies sandwiched between you and the sphere, the threat of an OA gives them a reason to stay where they are and take some flaming sphere damage. In other words, booming blade gives you the potential to punish two...

I'm not sure how OAs help? Maybe you can explain your thinking. The way I see it, staying in place and taking the flaming sphere damage is the better option for the enemy, even before factoring in OA damage. Once you bring in the OA, it just makes the worse option worse, making the enemy's...

I set both at 60%