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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6567061" data-attributes="member: 7006">It's a very interesting situation in terms of sorcerous bloodlines, because I know for me I feel like we already have fey bloodlines and shadow bloodlines and elemental bloodlines in the game.  But they're called Races rather than Sorcerous Origins.  Whenever folks mention wanting to have the blood of the fey in their ancestry, my first thought is always-- of course!  You can already have that.  They're called 'elves'.  Likewise, someone with elemental ancestry in their blood are 'genasi', infernal blood are 'tieflings', celestial blood are 'aasimar', shadow blood are 'shadar-kai' and 'shades', etc. etc.  And the only reason 'draconic' doesn't go along with this pattern (IE a person with draconic blood is a 'dragonborn') is because the fact that the dragon have polymorphed into the humanoid race they are introducing the blood into the line... so it's not *really* dragon blood, but it kinda is.Thus I've never felt like Sorcerous Origins have been the right avenue from which to exemplify this.  And that's what I especially like about the sorcerer and warlock distinction-- someone outside of a planar bloodline can still acquire magic from them... they just need to make a pact with that planar being, rather than have a microscopic sliver of blood that somehow manifests magical talent.That's part of the reason why the two origins we currently have not seemed to be that lacking to me personally.  Because I'm coming at it from the storyline position of "how many different ways would someone manifest magical energy (whether you call it The Weave, ley lines, or whatever) without needing to learn how to manipulate it?  If it happens just spontaneously without explanation, that's wild magic.  If one of your human ancestors (or dwarf or halfling or whatever) was actually a polymorphed dragon at the time, you get a sliver of dragon/not dragon magic in your blood.  I personally would also put psionics into this pot too myself, and I'd have to think about whether I'd throw it storm or cosmic sorcery in there too (in terms of the story of storm or cosmic magical manifestation, I've not be that crazy about them.)  Most other things though?  Magical "acquisition" from other planar beings I would tend to default to with "those are the Races" if its in the blood, or "those are Pacts" if it's been given.Personal picadillies and preferences only of course.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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