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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6570550" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yeah, I don't really follow that logic. Cantrips almost literally can't get wasted. I could blast bolts of fire every six minutes every day, and I'm more accurate with that then I would be with a limited amount of arrows. Getting up in something's face seems reckless, and swords cost money and my blasts of fire do not. Magic is not a precious resource for a sorcerer (or for anyone else who casts cantrips, for that matter). Meh, you really just need one cantrip that blows stuff up and that is almost always a much better choice than any piece of steel. The concept of my gnome was to make a character influenced by the nonsense of Lewis Carroll, using as many random mechanical elements as possible, and it does that quite well (someday, I will make a Wand of Wonder!). I don't feel like he's lacking anything by not being able to summon a shadow pony or use a spear. I've got PLENTY of spells to choose from, even with a second (dragon) sorcerer in the party, so we don't overlap at all really (he got Fear, I got Hypnotic Pattern, we're both in character without overlapping). I think perhaps your view of a sorcerer's identity is too narrow, if it is not able to embrace different proficiencies without collapsing. Proficiencies don't define a character very strictly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6570550, member: 2067"] Yeah, I don't really follow that logic. Cantrips almost literally can't get wasted. I could blast bolts of fire every six minutes every day, and I'm more accurate with that then I would be with a limited amount of arrows. Getting up in something's face seems reckless, and swords cost money and my blasts of fire do not. Magic is not a precious resource for a sorcerer (or for anyone else who casts cantrips, for that matter). Meh, you really just need one cantrip that blows stuff up and that is almost always a much better choice than any piece of steel. The concept of my gnome was to make a character influenced by the nonsense of Lewis Carroll, using as many random mechanical elements as possible, and it does that quite well (someday, I will make a Wand of Wonder!). I don't feel like he's lacking anything by not being able to summon a shadow pony or use a spear. I've got PLENTY of spells to choose from, even with a second (dragon) sorcerer in the party, so we don't overlap at all really (he got Fear, I got Hypnotic Pattern, we're both in character without overlapping). I think perhaps your view of a sorcerer's identity is too narrow, if it is not able to embrace different proficiencies without collapsing. Proficiencies don't define a character very strictly. [/QUOTE]

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