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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9742809" data-attributes="member: 7006">I agree with you on this.  The original 5E14 Sorcerer made it seem like one got sorcery from two different ways... either they had the blood of a highly-magical creature (a dragon) within them and thus that highly-magical creature's blood allowed the person to manifest magic... or they could manifest magic somehow on their own without the blood of a highly-magical creature but it was completely unpredictable (the wild mage.)  The point then would be that any future sorcerer subclass would be because a highly-magical being was in the player's bloodline.  That of course got thrown out the window the moment they made the Storm Sorcerer (which had zero mention of any storm-based creature in the character's ancestry and who was described as being able to cast weather-base magic for no other reason than "just because").  Thereby rendering (in my mind) the thematic point of the Sorcerer class moot.This is part of the reason why I don't like the Sorcerer class myself personally, but I also don't stop players from taking it if they ever want to have it nor constantly call on WotC to remove it.  Its selection by a potential player might momentarily irk me from a conceptual point of view... but once we start playing the "branding" or "identity" on a lot of the classes falls away anyway because a character is more than just some word identifier the game gives them, so it is never really ends up mattering.</blockquote>

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