D&D Sorcerer 5e- Best Race in 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons
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- D&D Sorcerer 5e- Best Race in 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons
What is the best 5e D&D race to play a sorcerer. That is the question we answer in this video. Look at every D&D book that is out from Wizards of the Coast in our quest to pick the best races.
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Any future plans of doing unearthed arcana classes like Mystic or Artificer?
@@lordnul1708 well artificer is getting another write up next month. It would make more sense to wait for that. Not sure if when we'll get to mystic. I feel like they still need a lot of work.
Nerdarchist Dave
I think changeling would be thematic for wild magic sorcerer as the entire race was created by the trickster a god of caos
Actually the current campaign I'm doing now will be over soon an I'd made a huge leap by breaking away from the pally to just a gwf fighter. However in our next campaign I was looking to be a sorcerer an aasimar was definitely my choice of flavor, and so now I'm just working on how to build an all around tho mostly up front sorcerer.
I love all of your posts. It was a really great help now that I’m trying to get back into Dnd. My favorite race is half elf and they never seem to get a spot at the table. LOL I guess that’s what comes with being one of the best. Do you have any recommendations for the best classes for half elf. My choice is initially going to be an oath of vengeance paladin. However, I want to develop a character similar to my own life. I don’t really want to use much magic and I’m quite tough and sneaky. However, I’m very good natured and not shady at all. I do however have a temper but it doesn’t show until I reach my threshold. Any suggestions will be helpful. Thank you for all of your amazing content. Because of you guys I bought a fifth edition manual and two starter kits. I also went to hero Forge and designed three characters for me and my wife and my daughter.
Technically, Wild Magic could be a Fae origin, as it states in the players handbook that it can be a blessing from a Fae, but I totally agree that there could still be a fully Fae origin and I would love to see one.
Warforged storm sorcerer with a two level dip into tempest domain cleric would be a cool way to make Iron Man. The integrated armor doesn’t have a strength requirement for the heavy armor setting just proficiency. Have yourself be powered by a magic storm sealed inside your core for theme.
Sorcerer! Yay! I've played a few sorcerers and totally went out of the box in opposition of what you discussed here. My favorite was my shadow sorcerer. His backstory was that he was a patrol leader of his clan's infantry squad. He died in an ambush but the Raven Queen brought him back as a sorcerer with shadow magic. Even though he now has access to arcane magic, most of the time he still resorts to attacking foes in combat with his battle-axe and uses spells such as Misty Step and Absorb Elements to supplement melee combat. Being a Mountain Dwarf, he is able to wield the battle-axe and wear Medium Armor... not to mention the strength and con bonuses. And... once he gets that hound of ill-omen at 6th level... game on! Good episode guys!
Sounds like a fun build.
Nerdarchist Dave
Wally D.M. I did a similar thing with my mountain dwarf sorcerer but he was a storm sorcerer and he was a soldier that was struck down by a lighting bolt spell and it awoke his powers and he used a battle axe to fight and wore a breastplate and used Misty step with booming blade and the movement from the storm sorcerer ability’s to jump around the battlefield to deliver thunderous justice.
@@kileaf i need try this, it sound a pretty fun build
For me (Not counting UA Origins):
Overall - Tiefling, Dragonborn
Draconic Bloodline - Dragonborn, Kobold
Wild Magic - Goblin (especially if the Player goes the Booyahg Booyahg Booyahg route)
Divine Soul - Aasimar
Shadow Magic - Shadar-Kai
Storm Sorcery - Genasi (Air or Water), Eladrin, Sea Elf, Triton
Pyromancer - Genasi (Fire), Summer Eladrin, Mephistopheles Tiefling
To add in the UA Origins:
Giant Soul - Goliath
Phoenix Sorcery - Fire Genasi, Summer Eladrin, Mephistopheles Tiefling
Sea Sorcery - Water Genasi, Winter Eladrin, Triton, Sea Elf, Levistus Tiefling, Yuan-Ti Pureblood, Merfolk, Naga
Stone Sorcery - DWARF, Goliath, DWARF, Zariel Tiefling, DWARF, Orc, DWARF, Half-Orc, Oh did I mention DWARF?
Though with the Stone Sorcery, since at 1st Level you get this as part of it: "At 1st level, your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class." Hill Dwarf (also has "Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.") works beautifully because there isn't [tmk] anything that says that the two benefits don't stack. Which if that is the case at Level 1 you're looking at:
6 + Con + 1 (SS) + 1 (HD) or 8 + Con. Then as you level you're looking at 1d6 + Con + 2 (SS & HD). At Level 4, if you're allowed to pick up Feats, I would pick up "Tough" because your Max HP increases by 2 x the Level you pick it up [+8] & you then gain +2 HP to your Max HP every level after, which by Level 20, you'll have gained a total of +40 HP to your Max HP from Tough.
So, if say you have a Con of around 14/15 (+2 Mod), though as a Sorc, maybe hope for at least 16 (if you die roll) for a +3 Mod:
Level 01: 6 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 10 to start out [Max HP = 10]
Level 02: 1d6 + 2 + 1 + 1 = +5-10 [Max HP = 15-20]
Level 03: 1d6 + 2 + 1 + 1 = +5-10 [Max HP = 25-30]
Level 04: 1d6 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 8 = +13-18 [Max HP = 38-48]
Level 05-20: 16d6 + 32 + 16 + 16 + 32 = +112-192 [Max HP = 150-240]
So at Level 20, your Hill Dwarf Sorcerer of the Stone Sorcery Origin will have a Maximum HP of between 150 (if you rolled all 1's on the 1d6) & 240 (If you were to have rolled all 6's or took the max die roll of 6, if your HB Campaign were to have gone that route). Max HP of 150 - 240 isn't that bad to be honest, especially IF the Stone Sorcery & Hill Dwarf's respective affects do stack.
Shadow magic also go really well with fallen aasimar I find
THANK YOU THATS ALL I WANTED
Wouldn't that just be a podcast? LOLOL
Glad you got it a kick out of it.
Nerdarchist Dave
omg, too funny guys
People always seem to forget divine soul isnt just good/lawful planes but all aligned planes
Not I. Cause wounds is vicious spell that would benefit greatly from metamagic. That's just one of many cleric spells that would benefit from metamagic.
Nerdarchist Dave
My personal top three wouldn't be too different. In no particular order:
1) Half-Elves. Stat wise, perfect. Can use your floating pluses for anything. Fey ancestry is great. Got darkvision. And two skills is nice to have when you're playing a class or background without skills you like. However, all the Half-Elf variants are pretty good. Drow has good spells, moon has a free wizard cantrip (aware about intelligence requirement, just pick something that you won't need to use your INT for like Presti, friends, mage hand, etc) and the wood elf for bonus weapons or the 35 movement is good.
2) Tieflings: Having each variant (aside from flying feral) with innate spellcasting is great. So many good ones based on what you're trying to go for. I'm personally a huge fan of Glasya and Levistus myself. Resistance to fire is much appreciated too.
3) Aasimar: They trade a skill proficiency for SO MANY OTHER FEATURES. Its insane how much Aasimars get out of the box. While the race lore does lend itself to Divine Soul i imagine if you wanna do some homebrewing/lore editing they could also easily fall into any other bloodline. Being heralded by birth from a Dragon God, Storm God, etc. Wild Magic can lend to a trickster god and shadow can lend to a fallen aasimar.
Honorable mention: V. Human. Take ya damn skill, floating stats, and feats.
That's why we always get those super races out of the write away.
Nerdarchist Dave
I was leaning towards half-elf as well along with Dragonborn.
@@FireDice Yup. Half-Elves are kinda redundant to mention since you can basically play ANYTHING as a Half-elf and it'll be pretty decent. But in particular to like.... Sorcerer's and Bards I'd say, they still get a personal mention from me. Cuz even considering another very popular all-rounder like Variant Human, I'd 100% pick a Half Elf over the human unless i was going for a specific build which relied on needing that level 1 feat.
Just aside from mechanics, I think they make really good choices flavor-wise as well.
Half-elves fit in the Draconic theme as well, especially Silver Draconic bloodline as Silver Dragons are well known for being fond of taking elven form and secretly living in elven communities. The offspring of such a dragon could be an elf or half-elf who heritage is unknown until they start manifesting sorcerers powers.
I'd say the best option is probably half elf (drow parentage) for a few reasons
-going by Scag rules, you can sacrifice the skill versatility for the drow's three spells which use charisma, perfect mix with sorcerer spellcasting
-race feats like elven accuracy and everyone's friend are both available to help with spellcasting and make good roleplaying use of that charisma stat, and most dms will allow for drow high spellcasting which doubles down on the extra charisma spells
-the two floating stats can boost constitution and dex for surviveability
-the fact that a half elf's non elven parent can be anything opens up all sorts of versatility for origins and flavor
-the drow half still lends itself to both shadow and divine sorcery (technically drow use a lot of a warped form of holy magic involving lolth)
-a few optional narrative hooks with their magic could be either having their magic be something that was exploited by their society and trained to the limit, or something that was seen as wild and chaotic and driven away towards the surface
My first sorcerer ever was a divine soul changeling and got his abilities directly from the traveler since the blessing of his race was a little stronger in him,ironically though,he wasn't exactly religious
As a sorcerer there isn't a need.
Nerdarchist Dave
Every time you mention the war forged envoy I cry a little more
I feel the hill dwarf stone sorcerer (UA) needs a mention, I dmed for one who had 20 con and the tough feat by the mid point of the campaign, making his hp 1d6+9 per level with a 20 AC. Needless to say, I couldn't build encounters to threaten him without meta gaming or making all the other players seem useless.
Played a similar build, but stone isn't an official sorcerer origin. That is it didn't get a mention.
Nerdarchist Dave
Just joined a Lv20 Campaign and a Levistus Tiefling Dragonic Sorcerer. I was surprised how physical I could build them. Can't wait to do all kinds of shenanigans with Subtle spell.
In one of my campaigns, I'm going to run a Tiefling Sorcerer of the Divine Soul. "How are you Divine Soul?" you may ask. Simple: I'm a descendant of Zariel. Y'know, a fallen ANGEL!
I am currently playing a Kalashtar devine soul sorcerer. He can't talk but uses his telepathy to talk (me and my dm agreed that i don't need the somatic components to cast spells).
Wait, you mentioned Eberron and a couple of it’s races but skipped Changeling entirely? It doesn’t theme as easily as some others, but it gets a semi-floating ability score, +2 charisma, a survivabiltity feature, and at-will no-concentration Alter Self, and more.
Wait aren't all Changelings are apparently descended of the 100 children that The Traveler gifted the ability to shapeshift so you have Divine soul as an option and you can easily go Wild Magic for that extra crazy factor. Basically praise chaos darling and you'll be fine.
Changling is on our list. Did we forget to mention them in the video? Sorry we shot this several weeks ago. But they didn't make it to our top 3 either way.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy My mistake, you did actually mention them in passing, just didn't go into any of their abilities, which is understandable since there are just way too many charisma races to choose from. Still, I've been looking for some content relating to them: builds, lore, how to roleplay, etc.
Just to point out they would also be tematic for wild magic due to their origin
obviously the answer is Kobold. Deekin might have been a bard, but he had the sorcerous blood of dragons within him!
Drow is very fun as a sorcerer.
Suprised you guys didn't put the half-elf in your top 3 & didn't mention it in your PHB race breakdown, even though it was mentioned at the very beginning of the video. It has the perfect stat boosts (+2 to Cha & two floating +1s), skill versatility, a bonus language & 60 ft. darkvision. Plus, the illustration in the PHB looks like the perfect Divine Soul Sorcerer.
Totally mentioned the half-elf in the phb races.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy sorry. Still suprised it's not in the top 3 for the aforementioned reasons.
If you consider a bit of multiclassing, Paladin of Providence 4 and Diviner Wizard 4 on a Halfling with almost any Sorcerer as base can be awesome to play and super frustrating to any DM. But for straight Sorcerer, Halfling Wild Magic Sorcerer who uses his luck just to keep out of trouble is fun. Especially in my setting, where magic naturally fluctuates a bit, as is. My favorite is probably Fire Genasi Phoenix Sorcerer, at the moment.
Back in 1st Ed I had an eleven Magic User-Thief w/ 18 dex. For story narrative I rationalized the character came from a tribe/clan that was descended from were-cats or The Cat Lord himself. I've been thinking a lot lately about how to use that idea for a Sorcery character that'd be DM expectable. So you can imagine you really got my attention when you mentioned The Cat Lord as a potential source for sorcerers (or warlock) powers.
For a Fiendish origin I'd totally go for a pseudo druid take on it with a similar ability to wild shape but it would be Fiend Shape/Form, turning the caster into a demon/devil of a certain CR, gaining their physical and mental attributes along with their innate abilities. Turning into a succubus, Balor or Pit Fiend would be metal as hell.
That is medal as f*ck
Shapeshifting is tough to balance. It's so strong if i learned anything from playing a circle of the moon druid.
Nerdarchist Dave
For Charisma-based classes, there is the goblinoid known as the Verdan from "Acquisitions Incorporated". First up, these guys have +2 Charisma, +1 Constitution, start off Small, then at Level 5 become Medium (might need new armor), can re-roll 1's and 2's from short rests due to black blood healing, have telepathic abilities, are Persuasive, and have advantage in Wisdom and Charisma saving throws, and they know Common, Goblin, and one other language.
Actually, with those abilities, that might fit a number of classes.
Anyways, these guys' lives are all about Change - going from goblin to hobgoblin size at some point for instance - and in the book, boosting stats might mean physical change, like growth spurt for strength, or stylishly large forehead for intelligence. Also, there's those crazy bat-wing-like ears that grow so long, the Verdan have been known to pierce them, and use earrings to hold them together behind their heads, to them from flapping in the wind. Sounds like fun.
Favorite sorcerer I have played is grung divine sorcerer with the criminal background. Sure I'll heal you if you tell me your secrets, kills him with my poison anyway.
my favorite race to play sorcerer is Dragonborn, but Elves may be fun as well
I'm one minute into the video and I'm already laughing with the podcast joke and the FFN t-shirt!
Glad you are enjoying.
Nerdarchist Dave
I think the Warforged Envoy is an awesome, flavorful option. It also has that inherent AC bonus, which increases survivability by a great quotient.
Especially if you get armor proficiency from somewhere.
Nerdarchist Dave
High Elf
Go Variant and take the +1 cantrip (I convinced my DM to also let me have Keen Eye) in replacement of the 2 skills
Sorcerer
5 cantrips, boom
Using my boy Jace for the thumbnail!!!! YES
"Best race for a Sorcerer"
*Shows Jace Beleren*
C'mon, he's obviously a Wizard, or even more realistically a Mystic.
The drow can make a good sorceror . With the feat drow high magic, magic iniate with the draconic blood line you have acces to alot of spells for the amount of spell slot's you have. Having a stat increase in CHA and DEX with decent to great stat's . Drow can make a great tanky magic user if design them right with the correct spell use , magic items and stat's . For a current pick up and play game i am in so far i am playing a level 6 sorceror drow a ac of 18 or having a ac of 23 using the shield spell being as tanky as fighter who spec in to a high ac class build.
I have just noticed how many classes have charisma for their spell casting mod
Yea there is a few for sure.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy Yep. And the interesting thing is that they all work quite well as a multiclass or dip for the others. For instance, Warlock Tome 5 gives unrestricted access to ritual spellcasting, from every class, up to 3rd level (which is 80% or so of all ritual spells in the books); perfect for a sorcerer multiclass to drastically increase the number of spells you have access to. Warlock also works well for a 1-3 level dip because of the unique spells and eldritch invocations; ever wanted unlimited illusions or mage armor as a bard, perfect darkvision as a sorcerer, or read every language as a paladin? And then there's the dragon sorcerer with natural armor at lvl 1 and 3rd level metamagic, the paladin's second-level divine smite, and the bard's second level jack of all trades and third level expertise. You can also take 5 or 6 levels of sword or valor bard to gain the warrior abilities for your (primarily) hexblade warlock.
That intro was great.
Also please do make a podcast,I'd absolutely listen to those.
We've considered it. The key is having make sense. We do weekly live chat, 3 videos a week, patreon weekly live chat, patreon content, products, and the website. So we already do quite a bit.
Nerdarchist Dave
Currently a Kalashtar Pyromancer. Not super optimized or anything but I been running quite well. It's mind link is an amazingly helpful skill
I know we talk about optimizing a lot on the channel, but when we play it's a totally different story. Fun is our 1st priority.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy fun should always be the highest priority. Optimizing is good knowledge to have but I more go with what I feel is gonna be fun to play
I am currently playing a dragonborn storm sorcerer. Backstory is that his egg was struck by lightning and bestowed the power of the storm. It is a ton of fun.
I'm playing an Incubus Sorcerer in our side-game of Phandelver. It's a homebrew race, but it's got options
Half Drow Shadow Sorcerer walk away with 10 14 14 12 12 16 and a handful of cha based racial casting that fits thematically with shadow magic, that would be my front runner.
Divine Soul Bloodline of X Teifling.
If you want to do it simple, just make it where the bloodline gave you the sorcererous origins, Levistus is good for a blaster-caster, but others like Glasya or Dispater works too.
An interesting concept I thought of while watching this is a Tiefling sorcerer, but he has divine soul for some reason.
Divine soul could be linked any divinity nice or otherwise.
Nerdarchist Dave
I think half elf deserves a honorable mention. +2 chr. And 2 extra skills, darkvision, immunity to magical sleep and resistance to charm. Good as maybe a "fey touched" sorcerer?
You guys keep talking about the best race to play a class but what's the worst race to play a class but will have the best roleplay vaule?
I've always wanted to play a kalashtar shadow sorcerer and maybe mess with some of the spells to be more Old God like. I played with the idea of mixing warlock levels in it and it being this character that comes from a family who carries this seed of an old god until the old god is able to mature and be reborn. So the spells would be a mix of shadow and cold like a being that came from a far off location. It feels like it still needs some touching up because it either ends up a smite machine warlock like most SorLock builds or it ends up being a sorcerer with some Hexblade/Old God Pact abilities.
Something I've noticed a lot in the comments: People kind of upset there isn't an infernal bloodline for Tieflings. Don't get me wrong, it'd be cool. But Tieflings can be very far and distant from their fiendish lineage. Why they aren't all evil out of the box. And Tieflings make... More Tieflings. They aren't like half human, half devil. They have become their own race. Not half-fiends, humans, etc, etc (Yes, I know that the way they started was humans/fiends but at their current point, Tieflings are super far gone and their own race). So you could totally be any other bloodline as a Tiefling, IMO.
Well yea of course you can. It would be a great option for tiefling and non tieflings alike.
Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy It would be a great option don't get me wrong! I think my angle was more so "Don't feel bad about becoming creative for sorcerer origins with Tieflings just cuz a fiend one doesn't exist." That was the vibe I was gettin and don't want people feeling down/limited because of it.
An actual pure fiend one would be nice though. I get that Wild Sorcerer is supposed to be a weird catch 22 archetype for things like potentially fiends, fey, chaos, etc. But its not as nice as having its own archetype.
I'd tend to say just either go Wild Magic to represent a higher-than-normal innate magic for a Tiefling or go Warlock instead (with the Pact being passed down through many generations).
As a general rule, I'd change the lore of a class or race before resorting to messing with the actual mechanics.
Nick Williams I agree with that last statement. Easier to change lore/flavortext than homebrew content. That's part of what my original comment was trying to get at. I just worded it badly.
My favorite is a Hill Dwarf Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer. Yeah, I had to put a high stat in CHA since it wasn't boosted, but I have 52 hp at level 4 (OK, I did take the Tough feat at level 4). We roll stats and I was lucky enough to get an 18 which I put in CHA. I had a 16 that I put in CON (boosted to 18 by race). The rest are just ok. I wear no armor and have the 13+DEX from the Draconic Bloodline and wield an axe.
Normally my choice would always be warforged, but I feel like you have to be born as a sorcerer or at least have blood with dormant magic in it and the warforged has none of that. They're not born and they have no blood to form a blood line. So, my top two choices for sorcerer would be yuan-ti and triton in that order. Unless we're doing something special and then obviously the vampire is the best sorcerer. Obviously you can't start off as a vampire though (unless you've homebrewed it as a race)
RP wise, as a side effect of being "born", your Warforged could have been infused with a certain type of magic that would lead to a sorcerous origin...
Well, in Xanthar's guide, one of the origins is, "You were born in a vat, created by an alchemist". I think you can do Warforged.
I might be making a genie sorcerer archetype. I've been planning a oneshot using the sidekick UA and one of the players wanted to play a genie since the sidekicks do allow new creatures, so I powered down a djinni for his racial base and gave him some abilities. I'll tweak what I have up since this is a casual one-shot but I want something more polished when I publish it.
I believe Kobold Press did create the origin already. Take a look at our Deep Magic playlist.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy so they did, however it's more based on the aspect of elementals and djins. My baseline is having it reflect the abilities of the djinni monster and the kind of genies people think of from cinema (like how the official samurai and knight classes are depicted) i think they have a good take on the idea but I'm interested in seeing how my version can turn out. Though admittedly it will likely pale in comparison in terms of balance and feeling.
I have an eladrin storm sorcerer and with his abilities combined with the racial abilities I can basically teleport about of an unwanted melee encounter. And it works out because he’s a squishy boy.
Can you guys take a look at the druidic cricle of the spores and make a build around it
for some reason i like the drow sorcerers for some reason. preferably divine soul. I think Sorcerer divine soul is kind of really powerful.
I have a Drow Divine Soul who is (unknown to her) the daughter of Eilistrieae, the Chaotic Good Drow Goddess.
It's probably the strongest option. An evil divine soul drow or otherwise would be a nightmare.
Nerdarchist Dave
Potted plant? Half the time I morphed into a sheep!
We've seen both. I couldn't convince Ted to bring a live sheep into his basement :(
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy lol I can see where this could be a problem.
I guess I'm a bit cynical, but its how many years in, is it realistic to expect much from wotc as far as sorcerer origins at this point?
All this talk about what established (official published) races would be best for a specific class has me wondering, what about fan-made races. There are quite a few on D&D Beyond now. With that said, if the Nerdarchy team were going to create whole new races and/or subraces for D&D what would they be and what would the idea behind them be? Same goes for classes and subclasses. As for races, I would love to see an official Half-Fey with more than a few subraces to it. As for classes and subclasses, I've been trying to write up a Chi Wizard (Wizard with Monk elements and spells built around the principles of chi/ki) but just kept running into barriers I don't think I can assail on my own. I'm also working to adjust my Henchman class for 5e, and that's pretty difficult in its own right.
I really want to play a Yuan-Ti Pureblood Aberrant Mind Sorcerer. I know it’s UA, currently. I hope it becomes official and they do not change too much.
Are either Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica or Wayfarer's Guide to Ebberon officially AL Legal yet?
Eberron is but for the specific Eberron campaign. Not sure about Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica.
Nerdarchist Dave
My favorite race to play sorcerer is Halfling
My favorite race to play anything is Halfling 😂
We here at Nerdarchy love the wee folk.
Nerdarchist Dave
Especially as a wild sorcerer! Lucky feat, anyone?
10:50 I homebrewed a Demonic Bloodline Sorcerous origin for just this reason. XD
If you are looking for Fey blood sorcerer, you can ste..er 'adapt' Pathfinder's
BTW... there is a race in Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else that has a Fey Blood race...
PF pretty much has a bloodline for everything. It would be a great place to mine for inspiration.
Nerdarchist Dave
I feel like Semic Hybrid deserves some consideration, as specially bred soldiers I can see them being bred to have magic. Statistically speaking they certainly aren’t the best but I think it’s thematic enough.
Dragonborn draconic sorc, wings spear shrink down to tiny size, raise hell as a fast nimble firebreathing pixie that darts around your head to stab you in the eye with the spear
Half-Aquatic Elf Storm sorcerer in a sea campaign = overpowered
@Nerdarchy Thank you for making these character build videos, as well as your other content. Just out of curiosity, will you be doing any more of the Monster BFF or Monster creation videos, and/or the GM-911s?
Aasamar also gives that charisma bonus
This is a little late but warfogred divine soul sorcerer of waukeen is a golden wardorged lol
They haven’t covered the Wild sorcerer that much I would think eladrin elves because they are elves and they love freedom and they have a sort of identity crisis because of the season and emotion change, kalashtar they are spiritual but they can have a chaotic spirit in their head and take the haunted one background and your good to go, changelings would also be good cause they have 2 identities most of the time
I can tell you from experience as an infuriated DM that an Aarakocra storm sorcerer (or any sorcerer really) is the most infuriating combo to ever exist.
Tiefling feels.... lackluster for a sorcerer because there's NO infernal bloodline. The dissapointing part is that if you want to play a tiefling sorcerer there's not the right bloodline. If you pick Aasimar you have the holy soul bloodline, and if you play dragonborn, you have draconic bloodline. TIEFLING HAS NO INFERNAL BLOODLINE.
WIZARDS MAKE THE INFERNAL BLOODLINE WITHOUT JUST GIVING TIEFLINGS JUST A SHIT TON OF THE SAME SPELLS
I'm it'll happen eventually. No reason you can't add it to your own home games.
Nerdarchist Dave
Give Tiefling infernal bloodline and put Aasimar in the PHB! It's a joke that you have one plane touched available but have to buy a separate book for the other!
Nerdarchy it's been YEARS since they released the players handbook with the tiefling (a human with the blood of a demon) and the sorcerer, a class based on bloodlines, BUT THEY NEVER BOTHERED MAKING AN INFERNAL BLOODLINE SORCERER
I mean there is an evil divine soul sorcerer
You can do that
how about a lizardfolk that just really likes dragons and then manifests sorcerer's power to cast firebolt from its mouth
Sorcerer the best race is a true sentence and nobody can change my mind on the subject.
Sorcerer is a class
I love the Dragonborn. They basically ruined other races for me
Louis Kellam it’s a shame their breath weapon is so underwhelming- still my most played race, occasionally touch Aasimar or wood elf. But it’d be nice if they felt a bit less lackluster crunch wise
Divine soul works for tiefling you just have to change some of the stuff around.
Just have to change the core flavor a tiny bit. Instead of tracing your divine magic back through your bloodline to a celestial origin, you are instead more blessed with this magic to be The Chosen One or an experiment by the gods to see if a "devilspawn" can be raised to goodness in this matter. Could make for an interesting conflict where the PC might want to be good, but doesn't appreciate being a pawn in these types of games.
I once created a tiefling paladin of devotion for a mini-campaign. He was raised by a human master, but that master tried to convince him he was in fact not the son of tieflings, but instead of aasimar parents cursed by a night hag to conceive only fiendish offspring. I even used the Zariel Tiefling to reflect this celestial connection as my character ventures on his quest to lift the curse.
Whether the story is true or not I leave up to the DM, but something like that could happen in my campaign where such a curse is a central storyline to the fate of an entire duchy in my setting. Zariel Tiefling with the divine soul is also a great way to convey the idea of a half-tiefling with aasimar or otherwise celestial ancestry.
Talk at the camera that you’re cutting to, boyos. Editing 101
1) Tiefling
1.1) Aasimar
2) Half Elf
2.1) Genasi
3) Dragonborn
4) Lightfoot Halfling
5) Human
IMHO.
I think Jace Beleren is more of a wizard than a sorcerer
Jace Belaren thumbnail says hello XD
The best race is the one that is the most fun.
Having a Charisma bonus from race is helpful but very overated.
Bonuses to Dex and Con are just as useful for a Sorcerer.
So I just found out in the lore of D&D dragonborn have only been present in the world for like 100 and some years or something, guess they were slaves to dragons on their home world, so a dragon sorcerer dragonborn is probably likely, but it is also likely he would hate his own guts as they don't believe in "good" dragons or a "good" dragon god... rough life man.
3 things. 1.Ma boiii Jace. 2. I feel like Genasi should have made the top 3 since they fit all 3 categories while Dragonborn missed stats plus the Genasi's thing is literally my blood has awakened some latent power in me. 3. My Changeling Sorceress of Wild magic would like to see you in this brightly lit alley where a party is happening by the sewer grate that her "brother" dumps bodies into but he's not here only Ms.Redrum the old halfling lady who bakes pies is here not a scary form stealing assassin.
P.S. She doesn't want to shoot you guys with a Prismatic Spray.
Genasi didn't actually hit the list for theme. But we see the potential as more origins get released. (Edit) I'm totally wrong momentarily forgot about storm- air, water. Tieflings just edged out lot of choices because of their flexibility.
Nerdarchist Dave
Halfing wild sorcerer
I am playing a gnome sorcerer I love her, lol
Zendikar Vampire
Half dragons hands down
Half-elf, Drow variant with Drow magic. End of discussion.
I have to say when I saw the Shadar kai history I was confused. I don't dislike the race, in fact, I think it is awesome, but in the forgotten realms, it was the shades who were once human and worshiped Shar that were in the shadow realm that was created when they tried to take the power from Mystra. So I don't get why they are trying to change that history with a different thing altogether. To me, the shades and the Shadar kai should both exist cause they are not the same. I guess it was one of the reasons I hated 4th ed. Instead of making a new world to showcase all the new ways they wanted to make D&D they tried to destroy the forgotten realms.
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Sorry but thematically I only see Aasimar as Paladins
I mean, tbh they are literally perfect for divine sould
Dragonborn
You guy DO relize that you're geeks and not necessarily nerds right? RIGHT?
Seriously, Wizard has the most sub-classes DOESN'T mean wizard is the right class for every situation. Same goes for Tiefling!!! Oh and lame intro (and a whole minute long do you guys have something against making actual content?).
Technically clerics have more subclasses
Harsh
@@angularclaw8061 good point, though the point still stands; number of sub-classes or sub-races that a thing has DOES not relate to "thematic and mechanic" superiority. To open a video saying you have 29 advantageous racial options then rule tiefling is simply the best because of the number of sub-classes is a load of trash. The way they described aasimar makes for a far better best pick. Or call me crazy.
@@wildewalker TH-cam is not lacking for content, if they want to waste our time with overly lengthy jokes, that are lame more often the not, then people really shouldn't be surprised at comments such as mine.
I use to quite like their content but will be more then happy to pull them up for insisting on time wasting and telling stupid jokes.
@@schemage2210 i completely agree with what you said about ruling everything out
Draconic origin using Tieflings because the only thing that can make them look any cooler would be some big old scaley bat wings. Not to mention tieflings can come color coded for the most part to correspond to their draconic ancester. It also makes them part human part devil part dragon. What's not to love? Well, aside from the easily ignored built in emo aspect.