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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephista" data-source="post: 6609781" data-attributes="member: 6786252">Another thing to think about.   There is a huge, huge abundance of fire spells at the moment.  Red/Gold dragon sorcerers are easy to run.   Ice?  There's technically enough spells to play one reasonably since Elemental Evil Companion came out, but not really enough empty spell slots that we can fill in to have a wide variety of effects; fire's just more effective.   Electricity?  Same as ice, but with a caveat - we now have Stormsoul, which not only expands the list of thematic spells to include thunder, but it plays in a vastly different (and arguably more thematic) way from the fire dragon bloodline.   Acid and Poison I think have four non-cantrip spells between them, five if you count Chromatic Orb; individually, they're non-choices, even with your extra spells.Perhaps it might be best to focus on fire magic for the Dragon, and ignore the others?   Ice can get a water/ice elemental Origin for itself, and focus on additional effects that slow, freeze, or hold targets.------------------------------------------------------------------Speaking of dragons and elemental magic, Legendary Red Dragons open portals in their region that allow fire elementals to slither through.   Putting Conjure Elemental and Conjure Minor Elemental with restrictions on types might be in theme.As well, if you do something with ice, there are two level 6 ice spells (Otiluke's Freezing Sphere and Wall of Ice) on the wizard list that the Sorcerer doesn't have access to, and wouldn't be amiss adding it.   Other elemental spells not on the Sorcerer list includes Flame Shield (fire or ice), Flame Blade, Flaming Sphere, and Call Lightning.   There's also a few cold spells in the warlock list including Armor of Aragyth, Arms of Hadar, and Evard's Black Tentacles, but they're questionable.   From the Elemental Evil Companion - Absorb elements (which depends on what you're attacked with), and Elemental Bane (really should be on the sorcerer list).</blockquote>

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