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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9579189" data-attributes="member: 18">They don't, though. Sorcerers are fundamentally a weird little D&D concept. They don't exist outside D&D or D&D-derived games, or rather, the word is simply synonymous with "wizard" or "arcane spellcaster" (just with a somewhat pejorative vibe).They're fundamentally different from people who can "naturally cast" magic - and Eleven is a great example of the difference - actually as are the other characters. Their powers are more less diverse than a Sorcerer's spells, but much more flexible. They're not as easy and casual to use as a Sorcerer's spells, but they are definitely faster and much harder to stop, and you can't see them coming because they don't use verbal or material components, and only use somatic ones for the benefit of the viewer, to connect what they're doing with what happens.That's the whole point. This is a different thing - it's far more different than a Sorcerer and a Wizard, which are almost identical, just with a genuinely slight difference in how they get spells. If D&D had never had Wizards, only Sorcerers, Wizard would just be a Sorcerer subclass who used a book to like, boost how spells they had access to. The only reason Sorcerers exist at all is essentially cowardice on the part of 3E's designers, they should have just abandoned Wizards entirely if they were really committed, but the only things 3E's designers were committed to were LFQW and newbie traps (he said, unfairly).</blockquote>

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