Sorcerer (Tweaked)

The Infinite Layers of the Abyss are realms of chaos and evil incarnate, every layer populated by demons - horrifying extensions of the plane's power that exist only to kill and destroy, and each one more hostile and violent than the last. Your innate magic stems from the chaotic, churning energies of this plane, a terrible force that grants you great capacity for destruction and corruption. Some sorcerers of this origin can trace their powers back to extensive exposure to Abyssal corruption, or perhaps due to influence on their lineage from demonic forces, while others may have wrested their capabilities from a subdued demon in a dark ritual, tearing away its power and infusing it into themselves.

No matter the method of acquisition, those who wield the powers of Abyss tread a dangerous path, for their very blood yearns to be used in pursuit of devastation. A strong will is required to keep these compulsions in check, and those who succumb to them can be just as cruel and malevolent as a demon - or worse.

At 6th level, you can infuse abyssal power into your destructive spells, leaving chaotic energy in their wake. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that deals damage and has an area of effect, you can spend 1 sorcery point to fill its area of effect with chaotic energy. The energy is difficult terrain, and at the start of your next turn it explodes, dealing force damage equal to your Charisma modifier to any creatures within it. The chaotic energy then disappears.

Also at 6th level, your power can eliminate any obstacle in your path, living or otherwise. Sorcerer spells you cast deal double damage to objects and structures.

At 14th level, the vile corruption that flows in your veins grants you abilities common to the greatest of demons. You have advantage on saving throws against poison and gain resistance to poison damage, as well as either fire, cold, or lightning damage. As an action, you can speak a word of power and magically teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

At 18th level, you have attained true mastery over your demonic blood and can rend wide reality itself, creating a gateway to the chaotic and destructive forces of the Abyss. As an action, you can spend 6 sorcery points to tear open an abyssal breach in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you, which persists for 1 hour or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). Each creature within 30 feet of the breach as it opens must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 7d6 force damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one. A creature must also make this saving throw whenever it comes within 30 feet of the breach or starts its turn there.

If you maintain concentration on the breach for its whole duration, it stabilizes, no longer dealing damage and becoming dormant for 1 month, when it can be closed by dispel magic cast at 5th level or above or if you use your action to do so. After 1 month, it becomes a 10 feet tall, 10 feet wide stable portal, serving as a gateway between a random layer of the Abyss (determined by the DM) and the plane on which this feature was originally used. The presence of such a breach is anathema to natural life, killing and withering all plants within a mile radius. The breach remains until a month passes, you die, you create another stabilized breach, or it is forcibly closed by the will of a demon lord, dispel magic cast at 9th level, or similarly powerful effects.

Your innate magic comes from draconic magic that was mingled with your blood or that of your ancestors. Most often, sorcerers with this origin trace their descent back to a mighty sorcerer of ancient times who made a bargain with a dragon or who might even have claimed a dragon parent. Some of these bloodlines are well established in the world, but most are obscure. Any given sorcerer could be the first of a new bloodline, as a result of a pact or some other exceptional circumstance.

Starting at 6th level, when you cast a spell that deals damage of the type associated with your draconic ancestry, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of that spell. At the same time, you can spend 1 sorcery point to gain resistance to that damage type for 1 hour.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of dragon wings from your back, gaining a flying speed equal to your current speed. You can create these wings as a bonus action on your turn. They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn.

You can't manifest your wings while wearing armor unless the armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be destroyed when you manifest them.

Beginning at 18th level, you can channel the dread presence of your dragon ancestor, causing those around you to become awestruck or frightened. As an action, you can spend 5 sorcery points to draw on this power and exude an aura of awe or fear (your choice) to a distance of 60 feet.

For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were casting a concentration spell), each hostile creature that starts its turn in this aura must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed (if you chose awe) or frightened (if you chose fear) until the aura ends. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to your aura for 24 hours.

The gods are beings of immense power, but yet, they are distant, refraining from directly meddling in the affairs of mortals. Instead, they invest mortal agents with their powers to carry out their will upon the material plane. A Godtouched is one such agent, imbued with divine power by the gods to complete a specific quest. You might have been godtouched at birth, or through some divine revelation later in life. Your magic is divine, your very being carrying a spark of the gods' own power within it. Unlike other agents of the gods, you require no faith and no ritual to channel their might.

The gods have vested you with a purpose, a fate, a destiny to fulfill. It may be a legendary prophecy, or an enigmatic quest that you yourself do not know the extent of. You may receive celestial visions or messages concerning your destiny, and dark forces are almost assuredly working to stop it.

Beginning at 6th level, you are able to channel divine energy to fuel magical effects. Each Channel Divinity option listed below explains how to use it. When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which option to use. You must finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.

Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your sorcerer spell save DC.

At 14th level, your divine essence causes you to undergo a physical transformation. Your appearance takes on an otherworldly aspect, simultaneously beautiful, kind, and imposing. You gain proficiency with Intimidation and Persuasion, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for ability checks that use them.

Additionally, you are able to briefly conjure spectral wings to bear you aloft. As a bonus action you can conjure these wings, granting you a flying speed of 30 feet until the end of your turn. Whenever you fall, you descend 60 feet per round until you land, which you do safely. You choose the appearance of the wings, such as angelic or bat-like.

Starting at 18th level, you are a divine beacon even in the darkest of times. When you are reduced to 0 hitpoints, a burst of divine energy is released from your body, affecting all creatures within 60 feet of you. Hostile creatures within the radius must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your sorcerer spell save DC. A target takes 8d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Friendly creatures within the radius gain 8d6 temporary hitpoints. Once you have used this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

There is power in king's blood. Your innate magic comes from your royal ancestry. Whether you are a far flung cousin of a great house, the child of a deposed prince, a secret bastard denied legitimacy, or the rightful heir to a kingdom, your bloodline is that of kings and emperors. You might be unaware of your lineage and of the source of your power, or perhaps you have always known yourself to be the true inheritor of a throne now held by usurpers. The appearance of one with this birthright often presents a political opportunity, either by the sorcerer themselves or by others seeking to exploit their claim to power. Many who possess it opt to keep their ancestry hidden for fear of assassination or worse.

At 6th level, you gain an aura of majesty that steels the hearts and minds of those who follow you. When you or a friendly creature within 30 feet of you makes a Charisma or Wisdom saving throw, you can use your reaction to grant them advantage on the saving throw. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the saving throw succeeds or fails.

Starting at 6th level, when you cast a spell with verbal components, you can spend 1 sorcery point to imbue your voice with magic. You can cast the spell regardless of any obstruction to your ability to speak or magical prevention, such as silence. If the spell involves speaking to a creature, the target can hear and understand you even if it doesn't share your language or is deafened.

Beginning at 14th level, when a creature fails the initial saving throw imposed by one of your spells, they become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

At 18th level, you adopt a title befit a legendary monarch, and gain permanent benefits associated with that title. Choose one of the following benefits:

Your innate magic comes from infernal power that can be traced back to the Nine Hells of Baator, power infused into your blood or that of your ancestors. Such power most often manifests itself as the result of a pact or bargain made with a powerful devil, such as a Pit Fiend or an Erinyes. You may have endured a near death experience at the hands of a devil and been forever tainted by the encounter, or perhaps your bloodline includes a powerful Tiefling whose ancestry has manifested in an unusual way. Regardless of circumstance, fell power now surges through you, both a blessing and a curse.

At 6th level, your magic begins to take on aspects of the Iron City of Dis, fortifying your mind against trickery and outside intrusion, as well as the City of Chains that lies in the layer below anchored perilously its underside. You have advantage on ability checks to discern illusions, and on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

As an action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to cause infernal chains to erupt from the ground underneath a creature up to 60 feet away. That creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the chains coil around them and they are restrained. A creature restrained by the chains can use its action to make a Strength or Dexterity check (its choice) against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself and the effect ends.

At 14th level, you gain the unearthly glibness of infernal pactmakers, and the ability to enforce contracts as they do. Whenever you make an ability check using the skill gained by your Devil's Progeny feature, you have advantage on the roll.

Additionally, whenever you personally conduct a deal, transaction, or other form of bargain, you can spend 3 sorcery points and use an action to conjure a magically binding contract. The contract states, with exact wording, the obligations and terms that each party is bound to, and the consequences of breaking the agreement.

If all involved parties sign the contract of their own volition, they are subjected to the effects of a geas spell, as if cast by you, and cannot make a saving throw. When cast in this manner, the spell does not charm affected creatures, compels them to carry out their obligations as listed in the contract, and lasts until the obligations are completed. If a creature breaks the agreement, or geas is successfully dispelled from them, all involved parties are instantly made aware of the event.

At 18th level, you take on the inscrutable nature of the Lord of the Ninth himself. Any magic or ability that would determine if you are telling the truth indicates you are being truthful, if you so choose, and you can't be compelled to tell the truth by magic.

Additionally, you can use the full force of your infernal magic to impose your will on a creature that would otherwise do you harm. When you are targeted by an attack or spell, you can use your reaction and spend 5 sorcery points to force the attacking creature to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is charmed by you until the end of your next turn, and you can choose to have the creature immediately move up to its speed and perform the attack or spell against a new target of your choice. While charmed, the creature uses your spell save DC in place of its own.

Your power draws from the immortal flame that fuels the legendary phoenix. You or your ancestors perhaps rendered a phoenix a great service, or you were born in its presence. Whatever the cause, a shard of the phoenix's power dwells within you.

That power is a mixed blessing. Like the mythical creature, you can invoke fiery energy and gain the ability to cheat death itself. This power is costly. The fire within you seethes, demanding to be unleashed. You sometimes find yourself absentmindedly feeding fires. You can't bear to allow a fire to sputter out. You feel most comfortable while holding a torch or sitting near a campfire.

Such sorcerers are wanderers by necessity. The volatile nature of their magic makes other folk nervous. If a fire breaks out in town, a phoenix sorcerer had best flee, whether guilty or not. Fire is a dangerous force, and phoenix sorcerers have a reputation (deserved or not) for reckless behavior, confident that the essence of the phoenix can save them.

At 6th level, the elemental fire within you refuses to let you die. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can spend 2 sorcery point (no action required). You are instead reduced to 1 hit point, and each creature within 10 feet of you takes 1d6 fire damage.

If you use this feature while under the effects of your Phoenix Mantle, it deals that damage to every creature within 20 feet instead.

Starting at 14th level, the magic from your flames restores your form. When you expend a spell slot to cast a spell that includes a fire damage roll, you regain hit points equal to the slot's level + your Charisma modifier.

At 18th level, whenever you use your Phoenix Mantle, you can choose to enhance it. If you do so, your phoenix mantle lasts for 1 minute and gains the following additional benefits:

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

You are capable of tapping directly into the source of arcane magic. Your magic is unfiltered, powerful, and hard to control, capable of both increased power and unpredictable side effects. You might have been born with this innate capability, or perhaps an encounter with powerful magic has imbued you with these chaotic abilities.

Beginning at 6th level, your unfiltered access to magic allows you to more easily manipulate your spells. You gain two additional Metamagic options of your choice.

Additionally, you regain 1 sorcery point when you complete a short rest.

At 14th level, you gain a measure of control over your raw magic surges. Whenever you roll on the Positive Surge or Negative Surge table, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

Beginning at 18th level, you are able to directly overcharge your spells at cost to your own well-being. When you roll damage for a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you may spend a number of hit dice up to your Charisma modifier. You and any targets of the spell take force damage equal to the total rolled. You can use this feature only once per turn.

Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but perhaps you were born during a howling gale so powerful that folk still tell stories of it, or your lineage might include the influence of potent air creatures such as vaati or djinn. Whatever the case, the magic of the storm permeates your being.

Storm sorcerers are invaluable members of a ship's crew. Their magic allows them to exert control over wind and weather in their immediate area. Their abilities also prove useful in repelling attacks by sahuagin, pirates, and other waterborne threats.

At 6th level, you gain resistance to lightning and thunder damage. In addition, whenever you start casting a spell of 1st level or higher that deals lightning or thunder damage, stormy magic erupts from you. This eruption causes creatures of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of you to take lightning or thunder damage (choose each time this ability activates) equal to half your sorcerer level.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to subtly control the weather around you. If it is raining, you can use an action to cause the rain to stop falling in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on you. You can end this effect as a bonus action. If it is windy, you can use a bonus action each round to choose the direction that the wind blows in a 100-foot-radius sphere centered on you. The wind blows in that direction until the end of your next turn. This feature doesn't alter the speed of the wind.

Starting at 14th level, when you are hit by a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal lightning damage to the attacker. The damage equals your sorcerer level. The attacker must also make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the attacker is pushed in a straight line up to 20 feet away from you.

At 18th level, you gain immunity to lightning and thunder damage. You also gain a magical flying speed of 60 feet. As an action, you can reduce your flying speed to 30 feet for 1 hour and choose a number of creatures within 30 feet of you equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. The chosen creatures gain a magical flying speed of 30 feet for 1 hour. Once you reduce your flying speed in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

The blood of vampires runs thick with power, the same blood runs in your veins, granting you powerful magic and enhancing you with a taste of vampiric abilities. You may have inherited this bloodline directly from a vampire in your family, or perhaps you survived a near-death attack by a vampire, or were a thrall to a vampire for a time. You may reject your inner vampirism, attempting to abstain from blood and hiding the source of your power, or perhaps you embrace these powers, and seek to drain the blood of your foes on a quest to become a true vampire.

Starting at 6th level, you have resistance to necrotic damage, and you gain darkvision with a radius of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its radius increases by 30 feet.

While in darkness, you can use your action to shapeshift into a Tiny bat-like form. While in this form, you can't attack, speak or cast spells, your walking speed is 5 feet, and you have a flying speed of 30 feet. You can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check while in bat form. Your statistics, other than your size and speed, are unchanged. Your equipment merges into your new form. You remain in bat form until you use an action to return to your normal form, or you are reduced to 0 hitpoints.

Starting at 6th level, when you regain hitpoints using your Draining Spells feature, you can spend 1 sorcery point to triple the number of hitpoints you regain. You can only do so once per turn.

Starting at 14th level, you can drain your own magical blood to empower your spells. Once per turn when you use one of your Metamagic features, you can choose to lose hitpoints instead of spending sorcery points. The number of hitpoints equals five times the spell's level (5 hitpoints for cantrips) per sorcery point the Metamagic would normally cost.

At 18th level, your immense power allows you to fully embrace your vampiric heritage. You can cast the shapechange spell targeting yourself without components or expending a spell slot. When you do so, you can't assume any other form than a Vampire (Monster Manual page 297), and can't cast the spell again using this feature until you complete a long rest.

If you spend 1 hour inside a coffin, you can designate it your resting place for the purposes of your Vampire form's Misty Escape feature. If you cast shapechange on yourself using this feature while in the coffin, the spell lasts as long as you stay in the coffin. If you stay in the coffin for 10 continuous years in vampire form, the spell no longer requires concentration, and the duration becomes permanent.

An old legend speaks of an ancient queen so hard-hearted and cold that her very heart turned to ice, her touch was frigid, and her mind as unstoppable as a glacier. Her beautiful and terrible power has come to fruition within you. Perhaps you came in contact with a magical relic from the deep north that once belonged to her, or you are a long forsaken descendant of this old monarch. Will you one day take up the throne of the old queen? Or does it mean nothing to you, and you'll forge your own path of ambition?

Regardless of your destiny, wintry ascendants are cold in both soul and body. Consider how this has been beneficial or detrimental to your relationships in the past and how it may yet affect you. It could lead to having stilted relations with others, or pragmatic, business-like ones.

At 6th level, you can emanate a wind whirling with snow. You can release or suppress this wind as a bonus action. When released, the area 15 feet around you is difficult terrain for all creatures except those of your choice, who, along with you, gain resistance to cold damage while in the radius. The wind moves with you, centered on you. At 18th level, the range increases to 30 feet.

Starting at 6th level, when you or a willing creature casts a spell within your Cutting Northern Wind that deals a damage type other than cold, you can change it to cold damage with 1 sorcery point.

When you or a willing creature within your Cutting Northern Wind deals cold damage to creature with a spell of 1st level or higher, your Cutting Northern Wind expands by 15 feet until the start of your next turn. At 18th level, it expands by 30 feet.

At 14th level, you gain immunity to cold damage, cold damage you deal ignores resistance, and as a reaction when you or a creature within your Cutting Northern Wind are hit by an attack or fail a Dexterity saving throw, you can reduce the damage taken by half your sorcerer level + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).

Beginning at 14th level, over the course of one minute, you can choose an area of ice no larger than 150 feet on a side within 600 feet of you, or you can freeze an area of water of that size. You can reshape the ice in the area in any manner you choose. You can raise or lower the ice's elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can't exceed half the area's largest dimension. For example, if you affect a 150 foot square, you can create a pillar up to 75 feet high, raise or lower the square's elevation by up to 75 feet, and so on. You can't shape the ice to damage a creature in the area, but you can shape it to trap them. Each 5 foot section of the ice has an AC and hitpoints equal to your sorcerer level.

Additionally, you can designate one structure of your choice that you have created and shaped with this feature as your Snow Castle. Doing so makes the surrounding landscape in a 10 mile radius change to winter over the course of one month, and your Cutting Northern Wind extends to the entire 10 mile radius of the Snow Castle. You can't designate a structure as your Snow Castle again for 7 days, and once you do, the previous one melts.

Starting at 18th level, you have gained a frozen heart and can don the attire of a winter monarch. You can spend 5 sorcery points as an action to don Winter's Regal Armor. Its appearance is up to you, it replaces or goes over your present clothes, and only you can wear it. For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), you gain the following benefits:

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

The magic that flows through your veins stems from the Heroic Domains of Ysgard, a plane of warfare, battle and revelry where nothing is truly permanent - the dead are resurrected every dusk and dawn, and the landscape shifts and moves even as its crossed. The martial prowess infused in its halls, battlefields and peoples has been inherited by you. You may have been blessed by the spirit of a mighty warrior, or been touched by the energies of Ysgard in the aftermath of a great battle. No matter the cause, your warlike magic makes you adept in all theatres of battle and drives you on to ever more grand and dangerous challenge.

At 6th level, your blows become mightier, piercing armour and rending flesh with ease. Once on each of your turns when you hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one additional weapon damage die.

Additionally, when you roll the maximum on a damage die for a melee weapon, you can push the creature you damaged 5 feet away from you.

At 14th level, you become infused with the heroic energies of Ysgard, making you bold, fearless, and brimming with vitality. You are always under the effects of a heroism spell, and are immune to being charmed.

At 18th level, your magic has assimilated the most potent aspect of Ysgard - the ability to return to life after death, and you can call upon the spirits of the plane to aid you in times of great need. As an action, you can spend 5 sorcery points to summon three warrior spirits that appear in unoccupied spaces you can see within 60 feet.

These warrior spirits take the form of Veterans (MM 350), except their hit points are equal to twice your sorcerer level, their weapon attacks count as magical, and they have a bonus to attack rolls equal to your Charisma modifier. The spirits are friendly to you and your companions, acting on your initiative. They linger and obey your verbal commands (no action required) for 1 minute, until you lose concentration (as if you were casting a concentration spell) or they die. If you don't issue a command to the spirits, they attack the most dangerous hostile creature they can see. Once you've summoned these spirits, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Additionally, when you die, you are revived next dawn at the last location you finished a long rest, as if true resurrection had been cast on you. You possess all the equipment you wore or carried at the time of your death, even if your body was destroyed by disintegrate or similar effects; equipment taken from your body after death reappears with you, vanishing from its current location. Once you are resurrected by this feature, you cannot be resurrected by it again until 7 days have passed.