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It's not a disadvantage in your mindset. It's nonsense in your mindset. Not all players operate under that mindset. Some simply decide they will never do something regardless of what the future holds and plans their character that way. Ever met a player like that? Didn't you already...

Believe it or not, but for most of this I've been talking about a player mindset, not mechanics, and how that can affect player choices. The mechanics bit was pretty much completely covered pages ago.

And you're still not justifying why someone should make a decision to build their sorcerer in a way to allow them to have an option that they don't even want. Also, calling upon the bandwagon fallacy doesn't prove anything except to show the weakness of an argument.

Your goal is to limit areas you spend sorcery points on so you can spend them in the other areas. You take a racial ability that provides the same as part of a sorcerer class ability specifically so you don't have to spend any points in that sorcerer ability. You will never spend any points on...

In the case where both are equal, taking an option that gives you an ability you will never use is worse because it is not a logical choice. If you are never, ever going to use it... then why even bother having it? That's the issue. It's not that they can ignore the ability, but that if they're...

And this is the key disconnect: You do not see it as such. But for those who don't want to spend any sorcery points on energy resistance at all and manage to still benefit from it, it very much is eliminating the need to spend a resource.

You set the goalposts. I was merely playing them. In this case, you still run across one underlying weakness: For the most part, no sorcerer is ever going to fully know that an elemental resistance is going to be actually useful until after it's proven such. For example, take our example of a...

A strawman is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument. So, yes, it is a strawman; in particular, my argument has been about a player choice removing one option without sacrificing power inherent in the class through simply taking a choice that eliminates...

Actually, at this point is when you've become illogical. Have you looked up the number of electricity-using creatures in 5E? I have; there's a distinct lack of ones where simply activating it would give a distinct advantage (note that this is different from fire). Most electricity damage is...

And now you're asking me to repeat myself. I answered your question and already dealt with what you said in the following posts: Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Please feel free to reread those posts at your leisure. Now, with this next part, I am going to both repeat myself yet again and make it a...

Nice strawman. I specifically mentioned the use of metamagic feats in my discussion of applying sorcery points to offensive power. Sacrificing metamagic would sacrifice offensive power, especially given the fact they are both so few in number (again, choice limitation) and incredibly useful for...

The type of people who would take a double dragon just to eliminate the elemental resistance cost probably wouldn't make a battle master to begin with. A mixed sorcerer is not sacrificing anything in your viewpoint. To the viewpoint of others, a mixed sorcerer would be sacrificing some...

It depends entirely on how you measure power and what your qualifications for it are. Some people measure it by options; some by offensive capacity; some by defensive capacity; some by social capacity; some by social rank; some by wealth; some by knowledge; some by political power; some by...

The double-sorcerer, in turn, has the capacity to cast more powerful spells more often through spending the extra points from not having resistance either on spell slots or on metamagic. Since he simply doesn't budget for energy resistance, he's not depriving himself of part of his defense by...

Actually, some magic items don't keep their charges constant. Magic wands can be depleted, magic arrows are depleted when used, and there's a number of others with limited charges. Plus, real-world supply issues include managing to get the very thing you're trying to support in the first place...

Which just means that the points that would have been spent on energy resistance are spent elsewhere. Thus, how he has more points to spend elsewhere.

Legal issues only apply in nations where there are enforced laws that get in the way. Training, maintenance, and supply issues can be solved through a combination of gun runners and mercenaries. Also, in a world where magical items are very rare (i.e. DnD 5E default), supply issues very much...

And the second example has more sorcery points to spend on other aspects of their class. For some players, that wouldn't be a disadvantage; that would be the entire point of taking the combination in the first place. Note, however, that I did not challenge the OP on their decision because it is...

Probably around ten percent. Militaries make up about 2% of the world's population, and then there are places like Iraq and Somalia... However, to counter that, note that most of the non-military people only own assault rifles. Those are basically the nonmagical longsword of modern warfare...

Except that energy resistance isn't a class feature of sorcerers. It's part of the Elemental Affinity class feature, and it's an optional part at that; the rest of the Elemental Affinity class feature still operates normally. I wasn't going to point that out because it ultimately wasn't...