D&D's Shadow Sorcerer Arrives In Xanathar's Guide To Everything
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2017
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I think my favorite shadow sorcerer quirk is having trouble remembering that dead people and alive people should be treated differently, because it doesn't specify that you only treat alive people like dead people. I want to make a shadow sorcerer that routinely has full conversations with corpses (rather one sided of course), offers them food and doesn't realize they're doing something weird until they don't respond or a party member looks at them weird lol
I'll be starting as a half-orc shadow sorcerer soon and part of his back story is he routinely sleeps out in cemeteries on the material plane because he feels most at home having lived most of his life in the Shadowfell.
I'm going to multiclass this with some sort of grappler to play the Undertaker.
DO THE EYE THING!!!
Oath breaker palidin with shadow sorcerer 👌
You can already kind of do that with a Warlock MC :)
Can't wait to make a Shadow Sorcerer, I already have a personality made out for him.
He'll be a very whimsical, almost hippy-like character that never is truly serious because behind his smile is the inner darkness of his mortal nihilism in which after death, nothing you've done matters anymore.
He kills his enemies with zero remorse, because he simply sees it as ending their suffering/escorting them to the next life.
Whenever he'd save a teammate, he wouldn't see it as saving them, he'd see it as an extension of his selfishness because he wants to keep them from the blissful void of death.
If he was forced to kill a teammate (let's say they were transforming into a zombie), he'd probably tear up, then saying something along the lines of "It'd be my upmost honor."
I've always been a fan of characters in media with powers over darkness, but who are actually really good people. A kind Shadow Magic Sorcerer will be super fun to play.
shadow sorcerer+ Gunslinger = alucard
you have just decided my next character
love this!
and yes, having a sorcerer with a dark sense of humor can be a lot more entertaining and refreshing than our typical, brooding dark mage like character.
Imagine, if you will, a *dark* sorcerer.
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"Come....come join me in the darkness, it is my gift to you".
So happy This made the book :D Take that Fey Wild!
As much as I love the feywild...
I LOVE THE SHADOW SORCERER!!!
Six words: The Queen of Air and Darkness
Building a multiclassed LVL twelve character who has four levels of GOO Warlock and eight of Shadow Sorcerer for a oneshot. I fluffed their Pact familiar as a black hound who can peel back it's face to invoke fear (It's using the Quasit as a base) and then it fully transforms into a Hound of Tindalos style eldritch horror who pursues one target till either it or they die. (And if they "die" they revert back to the Quasit Hound) They named him Mister Sniffs and he is a good pupper.
The character themselves is a Winter Eladrin who uses a mix of shadows and eldritch horror, mental magics that inspire fear, and ice. I like that they can cast Darkness on something they are holding, teleport to a crowd of enemies bringing the magical darkness with them, and then casting a Distant Spell'd Arms of Hadar to buffet everyone in a twenty foot radius with tentacles. Grasp of Hadar also allows their Eldritch Blast to drag enemies into the darkness. They are a bit of a nihilist but try to enjoy themselves before they like everything else is swallowed by the void.
I got to play one the other night and it was so fun. She was a Half Elf named Belladonna. Sickly pale skin, amber eyes, white hair and fangs. She was a bit like Succy in Little Witch Academia. We killed a baskalisk (spelling that really wrong) and she asked the Paladin to harvest some scales. Then licked them. When she magic missiled its eyes out she laughed at the sound. Loved stunning the DM. "She takes the scales and licks one in a long slow full tongue lick."
"Okay so Bella has...wait....did you say she licked it?"
I like to imagine she maintained intense eye contact with the Paladin while she was full tongue licking a disgusting Basilisk scale.
Bonus points for the Phantasm reference! Ah, the memories!
BOOOOOY!!
Ah Hexblades lost the shadow hound? Oh well. Still hope the Hexblades make it in. Pact of the Blade just wasn't cutting it for me.... I'll see myself out.
Neverfate I'm actually pretty glade, I didn't like the shadow hound ability and felt like it didn't quite fit with Hexblade. This may mean they replaced it with something that's hopefully better. I'm assuming Hexblade will make it since they want to fill in gaps that are missing and I believe that will involve Bladelock in one of the subclasses they release.
The shadow sorcerer had it before hexblade for 5th. I think the only reason it was attempted was the familiar from the 3rd edition version.
will be nice to hopefully get a better description of how the hound works though. i still have no idea if its meant to be capable of stuff like a familiar/animal companion/pet or if it was just meant to be decorative fluff for the ability so the enemy isnt just debuffed "because reasons"
Aw no shadow hound was like one of my favourite parts of the hexblade as i made this sorta mercenary warlock whos patron gives him assassination targets
If you all were here you probably saw this as well, but if you somehow didn't, Hexblade is still in; Hound of Ill Omen was replaced with something else for them.
Persoanlly, I think it'd be funny and entertaining to play the class, but have the PC's alignment be LG and be completely upbeat and positive. Kinda la Abby from NCIS with magic who snuggles with the hound of ill omen like a puppy
i'm playing a chaotic good tieflingwith this class. Thought I'd subvert the edgelord stereotype with her.
in my mind it would be someone like Morticia from the addam's family
I appreciate the Sherlock reference
I came up with a shadow sorcerer that had part of his memories and soul trapped in his shadow. He doesn't remember how he got his powers and he's a nervous wreck all the while his shadow is just facepalming and constantly saving his ass during their pursuit for the truth about what happened to him.
My very first character was a tiefling who was a shadow sorcerer and she was very short and every bar keep that the party met would not see her until way into a conversation and get spooked by her. So... I named her Spook.
I played a Zendikar Vampire Shadow Sorcerer. She worked nicely.
I hope the Raven Queen Warlock makes the cut.
Jubes
That would already by undying warlock.
Undying is literally the opposite of Raven queen thematically.
trying to be undying is the only major prohibition she has.
Grant Austin
But aren't all her servants already undead?
No...... just...... No.
Grant Austin
Then perhaps you explain it rather than say "no"?
Yes take my money
You basically play as the lost Addams family member.
And when in combat have him sing The Sound of Silence
Wish we had more shadow-themed spells in the sorcerer spell list for us to pull from. Feels wrong to be missing some of the illusion and necromancy spells so affiliated with the Shadowfell.
Still gonna play it as my first Sorcerer, though.
This plus ranger with 2 bags of holding full of hand crossbows and the crossbow expert feat = Reaper.
Picked it up recently so stoked to play an Drow Shadow Sorcerer whos trying to deny his inner evils, feel like that character could have a really deep inner conflict
The way I am wanting to play this is instead of someone that is all grim and dark and who revels in the dead things I want to play some one that wanted to be happy but his family was cursed by a demon and now he has these powers and is going to use them to hunt down the demon that cursed his family and show him why gifting him this power was a bad idea. Think early season Supernatural Sam or Ghost rider, using their powers for good to defend people from the mistake of his parents. Like maybe my parents were a fiend patron warlock and promised the fiend their first born son in a ritual and they have turned me into a "monster" and I am hell bent on never letting what happened to me ever happen to anyone again. I think the heart beat one sounds perfect for this characters quirk as occassionally being shocked by your own heart beat does feel "cursish".
Fey sorcerer PLEAAAASSSEEE
Reuben Fromow Wild magic has a pretty Fey feel to me
Jackson Bockus Yes it actually mentions, fey ancestor as a possible source for wild magic.
Im currently making back up character a life cleric multiclass into shadow sorcerer. She is sort like a plague doctor
ruick78 That sounds pretty cool.
Shadowlord586 ya her god is Sherū close that but follows teachings of Dark Moon Heresy believe Sherū and sister Shara are two faces to same deity according wiki anyway that clerics have be able use both powers. So it interesting way for a cleric of life to have ties to magic from shadowfell.
Magica De Spell's magic:
"Feed my power dark eclipse, free my form from the abyss.
Dormant magic, now unchained.
The Shadow Queen, be whole again. "
Makes me want to whistle the Addams Family theme.
add some more theme into the spells type of this class, like "at some level you can add some shadow (necrotic) damage dices to your spells because now you can manipulete the power of the shadowfell" or something like that, dunno it could be cool.
Holy Shit this is getting in the book? Hell yeah.
I hope they fix the Phoenix Sorcerer class. I love the idea behind it, but it just doesn't seem to fit with the sorcerer's sorcerer points mechanic and whatnot.
Abelhawk its not going be in book saddly
Yeah, I noticed that. :( Maybe next expansion.
My wife would enjoy this. She loves Sorcerers.
Ooooh! So you're releasing these by theme? The Feywild subclasses followed each other and now we have the Shadowfel
Next video: Hexblade Warlock!
Hey could you maybe do the quirk thing with the other sorcerer origins?
Would be nice, but you can homebrew it
The class already gives you suggestions for your Sorcerers Arcane origin, signs of sorcery, supernatural marks and peoples reaction to you . . . just flavor those to your sorcerer and/or make them quirky, I feel like the sorcerer is meant to be strange and have quirks no matter the origin
I hope we get favored soul as well.
Take my money already WoTC - you win!
Does it deal 2 damage every time you cast a spell or anything? And can I play an Ethereal being so it doesn't cost a spell slot and OTK my opponent?
I’m gonna play a Fallen Aasimar Shadow Sorcerer who has a bunch of the quirks. My younger sister is gonna be playing is older, Tiefling sister.
He’s either be super edgy or super innocent.
Where you get that shirt
What edition does Mike Mearls run in his home campaign??
MORE GRIMDARK!
So you could say shadow sorcerers are all about the whole, y'know, being dead thing?
Strangely enough, they don't resist necrotic damage, though.
At least, not until they get Umbral Form.
When does the guide come out?
Did anyone else, while listening to thins, think Death Note?
Death note sounds more like a Warlock pact.
What makes this any different from my warlock that is already seeing through his darkness?
More spell slots.
Can I play that in Adventurers League?
Is darkness a good shadow ability? I mean Shadows REQUIRE light right??? Seems off to me.
I wish they didn't give you all the benefits of being a drow with none of the downsides
Fingers crossed for Lore mastery
youtube thinks this is about the game shadow sorcerer from 1991... the cover look a lot like early D&D anyway XD
Soo favored soul, and shadow... doesn't look good for the elemental variants :\
As much as I liked the Stone Sorcerer and thought Sea had some interesting ideas that could be improved, the Dragon sorcerer is already elemental. Phoenix sounded like a cool idea, but in practice, a Dragon sorcerer with a gold/brass/red ancestor is a Phoenix Sorcerer but better.
Jared Hite Dragons get boring fast when it's pretty much the to go choice for fire sorcerers. The Phoenix is just much cooler thematically, with some buffs such as more uses of mantle of flame they're good enough to be played.
Weird? Gothic? Ephemeral? ... drow?!
another edgy/emo character fro liam to play in the next crit role campaign lol
aww they nerfed that autorez ability... that things was total bs
NOOB SAIBOT any one?
So Raven from the Teen Titans?
So far... SO GOOD!. Me wants A Coookie BUT ME WAIT
Arcane archer?
Sadly it doesn't seem so. It seems the subclasses are Samurai and Cavalier, which is really the Knight and Cavalier fused together.
Actually from a comment from mearls, arcane archer appears to be likely in
"Powerful tactical ability" --> Good luck finding a villain that the DM will agree cannot see through your magical darkness. Sadly this makes me feel iffy about it because what creature can see through what is one of the bloated and badly explained topics of 5e.
I don't see what's ambiguous. Does the creature have blindsight, truesight, or the Devil's Sight trait? If not, they can't see through Darkness. Regular darkvision is ineffective.
Yeah but the dm could very easily make them able to see through it because they dont want to let their big bad drop super easy.
Any DM that tacks on traits to a monster without reason or logic is a bad DM that should be removed from the game.
Kyle Vanderhoof yeah yeah. Whatever.
The DM could theoretically allow a monster without blindsight, truesight, or devil sight to see through the Darkness spell just to keep you from gaining advantage, but a DM could do that with pretty much any mechanic in the game if they wanted to. When I was making my Warlock, I was constantly told to use the Darkness + Devil's Sight combination by online forums, so I don't see why the shadow sorcerer would have trouble doing the exact same thing.
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