Sorcerer

Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories - just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time.


Type	Base class
Hit die	d4
Skill points	2 + Intelligence modifier per level
Attack bonus	half - 1 per 2 levels, +10 by level 20
Strong saves	Will
Spellcasting	Spontaneous
Alignment	Any
Primary ability	Charisma

How it works

A pure Sorcerer gets +1 spell DC over the value on the Magic page. A pure Cleric, Wizard or Warlock gets +3.
30 Sorcerer levels without being pure give no bonus.

What you gain, level by level

Level	Gain
1	Weapon Proficiency (simple), Summon Familiar
21	Epic Sorcerer
23	bonus feat (and again every 3 levels to 38)

Spells

Spells are cast from a fixed list of spells known, without preparing them. The casting ability is Charisma.

How a save is worked out, and what a slot is actually spent on, are on Magic.

Spells a day, by spell level. A level that is not listed has the same allowance as the last one listed above it.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	6	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	6	6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-	-
9	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-
10	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-
11	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-
12	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-
13	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-
14	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-
15	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-
16	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-
17	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-
18	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3
19	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4
20	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Spells known, by spell level.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	6	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	6	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	7	4	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	7	5	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	7	5	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
9	7	5	4	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
10	7	5	4	3	2	1	-	-	-	-
11	7	5	5	4	3	2	-	-	-	-
12	7	5	5	4	3	2	1	-	-	-
13	7	5	5	4	4	3	2	-	-	-
14	7	5	5	4	4	3	2	1	-	-
15	7	5	5	4	4	4	3	2	-	-
16	7	5	5	4	4	4	3	2	1	-
17	7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	-
18	7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	1
19	7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	2
20	7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3

Spell list

Every spell on the Sorcerer list, by spell level. The Wizard uses the same list.

Spell level	Spells
0	Acid Splash, Daze, Electric Jolt, Flare, Light, Ray of Frost, Resistance
1	Burning Hands, Charm Person, Color Spray, Endure Elements, Expeditious Retreat, Grease, Horizikaul's Boom, Ice Dagger, Identify, Ironguts, Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Magic Weapon, Negative Energy Ray, Protection from Alignment, Ray of Enfeeblement, Scare, Shelgarn's Persistent Blade, Shield, Sleep, Summon Creature I, True Strike
2	Balagarn's Iron Horn, Blindness/Deafness, Bull's Strength, Cat's Grace, Cloud of Bewilderment, Combust, Continual Flame, Darkness, Death Armor, Eagle's Splendor, Endurance, Flame Weapon, Fox's Cunning, Gedlee's Electric Loop, Ghostly Visage, Ghoul Touch, Invisibility, Knock, Lesser Dispel, Melf's Acid Arrow, Owl's Wisdom, Resist Elements, See Invisibility, Stone Bones, Summon Creature II, Tasha's Hideous Laughter, Ultravision, Web
3	Clairaudience/Clairvoyance, Clarity, Dispel Magic, Displacement, Find Traps, Fireball, Flame Arrow, Greater Magic Weapon, Gust of Wind, Haste, Hold Person, Invisibility Sphere, Keen Edge, Lightning Bolt, Magic Circle against Alignment, Mestil's Acid Breath, Negative Energy Burst, Protection from Elements, Scintillating Sphere, Slow, Stinking Cloud, Summon Creature III, Vampiric Touch
4	Bestow Curse, Charm Monster, Confusion, Contagion, Elemental Shield, Enervation, Evard's Black Tentacles, Fear, Ice Storm, Improved Invisibility, Isaac's Lesser Missile Storm, Lesser Spell Breach, Minor Globe of Invulnerability, Phantasmal Killer, Polymorph Self, Remove Blindness/Deafness, Remove Curse, Shadow Conjuration, Stoneskin, Summon Creature IV, Wall of Fire
5	Animate Dead, Ball Lightning, Bigby's Interposing Hand, Cloudkill, Cone of Cold, Dismissal, Dominate Person, Energy Buffer, Feeblemind, Firebrand, Greater Shadow Conjuration, Hold Monster, Lesser Mind Blank, Lesser Planar Binding, Lesser Spell Mantle, Mestil's Acid Sheath, Mind Fog, Summon Creature V
6	Acid Fog, Bigby's Forceful Hand, Chain Lightning, Circle of Death, Ethereal Visage, Flesh to Stone, Globe of Invulnerability, Greater Dispelling, Greater Spell Breach, Greater Stoneskin, Isaac's Greater Missile Storm, Legend Lore, Mass Haste, Planar Binding, Shades, Stone to Flesh, Summon Creature VI, Tenser's Transformation, True Seeing, Undeath to Death
7	Banishment, Bigby's Grasping Hand, Control Undead, Delayed Blast Fireball, Finger of Death, Great Thunderclap, Mordenkainen's Sword, Power Word, Stun, Prismatic Spray, Protection from Spells, Shadow Shield, Spell Mantle, Summon Creature VII
8	Bigby's Clenched Fist, Blackstaff, Create Undead, Greater Planar Binding, Greater Sanctuary, Horrid Wilting, Incendiary Cloud, Mass Blindness/Deafness, Mass Charm, Mind Blank, Premonition, Summon Creature VIII, Sunburst
9	Bigby's Crushing Hand, Black Blade of Disaster, Dominate Monster, Energy Drain, Gate, Greater Spell Mantle, Meteor Swarm, Mordenkainen's Disjunction, Power Word, Kill, Shapechange, Summon Creature IX, Time Stop, Wail of the Banshee, Weird

Bonus feat choices

A bonus feat is granted at the levels marked in the table above, and can be spent on any of the following.

As a bonus feat or as an ordinary feat: Automatic Quicken Spell (any of 3), Automatic Silent Spell (any of 3), Automatic Still Spell (any of 3), Energy Resistance, Acid (any of 10), Energy Resistance, Cold (any of 10), Energy Resistance, Electrical (any of 10), Energy Resistance, Fire (any of 10), Energy Resistance, Sonic (any of 10), Epic Spell Focus (any of 8), Epic Spell Penetration, Epic Spell: Dragon Knight, Epic Spell: Epic Mage Armor, Epic Spell: Epic Warding, Epic Spell: Greater Ruin, Epic Spell: Hellball, Epic Spell: Mummy Dust, Great Charisma (any of 10), Improved Combat Casting.

Class skills

One point per rank instead of two: Concentration, Craft: Harvesting, Craft: Mastery, Craft: Speed, Heal, Lore, Ride, Spellcraft.

Races that favour it

Drow (male characters), Illithid (female characters), Lich (male characters). A character of one of those races who stays single-classed in this one earns extra experience - see Character development.