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General D&D Discussion / Re: A few questions about Sorcerer (newbie thread) D&D 3.5e/5e
« Last post by Skyrock on Yesterday at 08:06:33 PM »Most commonly (but not exclusively), being a Sorcerer means you have a dragon somewhere in your family line. 5e and PF have a number of subclasses who build on different lineages of sorcerers, and outside of the PHB, 3.5 also has a lot of Alternative Class Features building on Sorcerers of a different background: https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?444354
D&D 3.5 has a psionic version of the Sorcerer in the form of the Wilder, found in the SRD: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/classes/wilder.htm
There are two somewhat curse-based, spontaneous arcane spellcasting debuffing base classes in D&D 3.5, Hexblade from Complete Warrior from and Jester from Dragon Compendium. While they might serve as a foundation, they are both not very good and severely lacking, especially for a first time player.
Other classes that could carry the general idea:
Of all those options, I consider Dragonfire Adept as the most beginner-friendly - it was published for free by WotC (class, breath effects), is an at-will blaster with built-in debuffing rider effects, favours Constitution (so it is more forgiving of beginner mistakes by having a lot of HP and a good Fort save) - and the fluff makes it easy to segue in dragon-bloodline-based sorcery, if that is your thing, and like Sorcerers it benefits from Charisma as it sets the save DCs.
D&D 3.5 has a psionic version of the Sorcerer in the form of the Wilder, found in the SRD: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/classes/wilder.htm
There are two somewhat curse-based, spontaneous arcane spellcasting debuffing base classes in D&D 3.5, Hexblade from Complete Warrior from and Jester from Dragon Compendium. While they might serve as a foundation, they are both not very good and severely lacking, especially for a first time player.
Other classes that could carry the general idea:
- Dragonfire Adept (Dragon Magic)
- Dragon Shaman (PHB2)
- Dread Necromancer (Heroes of Horror)
- Duskblade (PHB2)
- Paladin (Tyranny and Slaughter ACFs) SRD: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#paladinVariantsFreedomSlaughterAndTyranny
- Warlock (Complete Arcane)
Of all those options, I consider Dragonfire Adept as the most beginner-friendly - it was published for free by WotC (class, breath effects), is an at-will blaster with built-in debuffing rider effects, favours Constitution (so it is more forgiving of beginner mistakes by having a lot of HP and a good Fort save) - and the fluff makes it easy to segue in dragon-bloodline-based sorcery, if that is your thing, and like Sorcerers it benefits from Charisma as it sets the save DCs.