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<blockquote data-quote="Zelc" data-source="post: 6608675" data-attributes="member: 40496"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfxIoJgSMeU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfxIoJgSMeU</a>The Sorcerer vs. Wizard thread brought up something I've been thinking about.&nbsp; I don't think the role of the Sorcerer is well-defined.&nbsp; Fighters are good at hitting stuff and taking hits, Rogues are good at skills and hitting stuff, Wizards are good at utility and AOE.&nbsp; I think WotC did a fantastic job developing these classes.On the other hand, If we asked the 5E Sorcerer what he does, what would he say?&nbsp; The Dragon Sorcerer is a dragon and the Wild Mage is random, but that's not what they do.&nbsp; What does a dragon or a random guy do for the party?&nbsp; What abilities do they have which support it?Now suppose you were the developer of D&amp;D pre-5E, and you could create the 5E Sorcerer any way you like.&nbsp; How would you distinguish the Sorcerer mechanically?&nbsp; What should a Sorcerer's role be?Sorry if this treads familiar ground <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zelc, post: 6608675, member: 40496"] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfxIoJgSMeU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfxIoJgSMeU[/URL] The Sorcerer vs. Wizard thread brought up something I've been thinking about. I don't think the role of the Sorcerer is well-defined. Fighters are good at hitting stuff and taking hits, Rogues are good at skills and hitting stuff, Wizards are good at utility and AOE. I think WotC did a fantastic job developing these classes. On the other hand, If we asked the 5E Sorcerer what he does, what would he say? The Dragon Sorcerer is a dragon and the Wild Mage is random, but that's not what they do. What does a dragon or a random guy do for the party? What abilities do they have which support it? Now suppose you were the developer of D&D pre-5E, and you could create the 5E Sorcerer any way you like. How would you distinguish the Sorcerer mechanically? What should a Sorcerer's role be? Sorry if this treads familiar ground :p. [/QUOTE]

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