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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 7244099" data-attributes="member: 1964">Actually, here's two more riffs on the stone sorcerer crunch:  1.  You are the reincarnation / spiritual descendant / actual descendant / host body of a great warrior.  You may not have the physical gifts of some fighters (having pumped up that Charisma stat), but you literally have a warrior's spirit, making you a natural leader who can instinctively wield any weapon like a professional and can channel strange magics through your sword.  Great angle for an unlikely hero --- the local scribe's apprentice or baker boy finds out he is the heir to Kogarth the Unyielding.2.  Marry this to the Inheritor background --- you inherited a magic sword.  Its magic will increase over time (does 5E do scaling magic items yet?), but it's also awakening your own powers.  Could be another unlikely-hero-call-to-adventure kinda guy, or it could be a Stormbringer-type curse --- you are gaining in power by killing.</blockquote>