Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Ever since
Ever since 3rd ed, I've always seen sorcerers as "the mutant menace", a la Marvel comics, since they have a limited number of spells that come from within. I would LOVE to be able to cast from Con. It would really aid the concept.Yeah they dropped that part pretty fast. Even the Cleric lost its STR/CHA powers moving forward... 4e mostly kept the secondary attribute more modular (like the Warlord being STR/INT, STR/CHA, STR/INT/CHA and even STR/WIS depending on presence, or the Wizard going INT/DEX, INT/CON or INT/CHA depending on what they wanted to specialize in) and I miss that. Even the Barbarian would go STR/WIS or STR/DEX if they wanted.
I feel like the Sorcerer would have made a lot of sense as a CON caster since they're using their innate magic. It's something that could strain their body to overuse and all that. It would make Sorlock and Sorcadin less synergetic, but open up a ton of Sorcerer Gish options.
But I can also see Concentration being harder to break for that kind of caster and that being considered an issue.
It would certainly have made them stand out more.