DDAL AL starting gold

[TrueBagelMan]

Can you take 5 gold pieces you start out with and buy a holy symbol? My background gives me 15 starting gold and is a divine soul sorcerer. I was wondering since I can get cleric spells.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't know about adventurers league currency, but RAW a divine soul sorcerer does not gain the ability to use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus.

I suspect most home DMs would allow it, but AL DMs don't have the same freedom to wave rules.

 

[Orban Sirgen]

Yes, you can use your starting gold to buy anything in the PHB... Whether you can actually use what you buy is irrelevant...

 

[TrueBagelMan]

My bad I thought spells that said it needed a holy symbol to cast. I didn’t realize that an arcane focus works as well.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

If a spell specifically lists a "holy symbol" as a material component, then you need an actual holy symbol to cast it. You can only use a spellcasting focus/component pouch in place of the listed material components if they don't have a cost, and a holy symbol costs money.

Now, you could argue that a focus can be used as long as the component doesn't have a cost listed in the spell description itself, and many DMs would probably accept that. But since you're playing AL you'll never know how the current DM will rule, so you'll want all your rules interpretations to be watertight.

 

[TrueBagelMan]

Can I mount or wear the holy symbol and cast with it like that? AL purposes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If a spell specifically lists a "holy symbol" as a material component, then you need an actual holy symbol to cast it.

If the spell description doesn't specify a gp value for the holy symbol, then it can be replaced with a spellcasting focus, just like any other material component. Which, for a Divine Soul, would be an arcane focus.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Can I mount or wear the holy symbol and cast with it like that? AL purposes.

I very much doubt an AL DM would let you use a holy symbol carved onto your wand.

 

[Davo3]

You seem to be missing these parts:

Divine Magic
Your link to the divine allows you to learn spells from the cleric class. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn or replace a sorcerer cantrip or a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list or the sorcerer spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you.

In addition, choose an affinity for the source of your divine power: good, evil, law, chaos, or neutrality. You learn an additional spell based on that affinity, as shown below. It is a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against your number of sorcerer spells known. If you later replace this spell, you must replace it with a spell from the cleric spell list.

And:

Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus (see the Adventuring Gear section) as a spellcasting focus for your sorcerer spells.

From Sorcerer

 

[tommybahama]

I very much doubt an AL DM would let you use a holy symbol carved onto your wand.

I doubt any AL DM will check and it's one of the options written in the text of the compendium on D&D Beyond.