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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8055426" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Honestly, we should just make a Final Fantasy-inspired Dragoon subclass of the Blood Hunter and give them the Draconic but martialist features that people keep wanting to graft onto the Sorcerer (and particularly onto the Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer).Sorcerer is a Mutant a la X-Men, or else an Inhuman, or a non-Jedi Force user, or a Witch-species, etc. Very different narrative function from Warlock, for sure, though oft quick to compare (did I inherit my abilities from a demonic ancestor or am I forced into a pact with that demonic ancestor?). And yes, there are some powered people that are really strong as their superpower, but they can also be modeled with Barbarians rather than Sorcerers.There's a place for an Ancestry-based martial arcanist like an FF Dragoon, but there isn't enough room in the Sorcerer class for this concept.It's better served as a subclass elsewhere, and I like Blood Hunter for that because the Blood Rites still give you that bloodline possibility. But Fighter, Ranger, or even Paladin could work too. Even Artificer, if flavoured properly (ExE's Forge Adept is a fantastic Swordmage with everything but the Aegis, and I could see other Intelligent Warriors akin to Forge Adepts and Battle Smiths really fill out the Artificer as the Int-Arcane Gish).Oh, and Wild Soul Barbarians capture a bit of the martial Sorcerer concept, too. Not the Dragoon Sorcerer, but they show another mode where you could do them justice. 4e Barbarians had dragon spirits in some of their daily totemic rage powers, so I could definitely see this an a road to go down, there.As for fixing the Sorcerer itself, just switch them over to Spell Points, make Sorcery Points and Spell Points a single pool of resources, and give a way to recover a few points 1/long rest akin to the Wizard's Arcane recovery. Spell points are already balanced the same way as the Monk's ki points for casting spells, so the only place Sorcerers are really being screwed right now are converting between Spell Slots and Sorcery Points and vice versa. Make it a single resource, no conversions needed, and they can just be the innate caster again, a sort of cha-casting psionic Wilder aka 3.5e Expanded Psionics Handbook.</blockquote>

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