I’m debating whether to make one of my characters either a fighter, sorcerer, or college of swords bard. For more context, here’s the summary of her backstory:
Shes a kalashtar (race in the war of eberonn handbook) that is disguised as, and was raised as a high elf princess. At the age of ten (10), her dream spirit thing (something that kalashtars have) showed up and started talking to her. Until the age of 16, she dove into her studies, trying to find anything that told of her experiences. After a fight with her adopted parents (she had shut herself in her room, when she was supposed to be doing royal princess things), and ended up casting a burst of magic, injuring several people, then running away, taking money, adventuring gear, and a sword with. She now wanders the woods, staying away from people, trying her best to find out about who she actually is.
Putting the fact that Kalashtar look nothing like high elves aside (that's between you and your DM), That kind of backstory entirely says sorcerer. The Kalashtar has nothing to create that burst of magic and it has nothing to pick up a feat at first level to do this kind of thing so Fighter is completely out from the magic alone, and Bard is out because their magic is learned and controlled much more like a wizard, specially with something like college of Swords. So really that only leaves you with Sorcerer. Which conveniently enough some kind of burst of magic is how most Sorcerer's actually learn that they have magic and even use them for a time starting off so it's basically one of the outright classic starts for sorcerer's.
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I’m debating whether to make one of my characters either a fighter, sorcerer, or college of swords bard. For more context, here’s the summary of her backstory:
Shes a kalashtar (race in the war of eberonn handbook) that is disguised as, and was raised as a high elf princess. At the age of ten (10), her dream spirit thing (something that kalashtars have) showed up and started talking to her. Until the age of 16, she dove into her studies, trying to find anything that told of her experiences. After a fight with her adopted parents (she had shut herself in her room, when she was supposed to be doing royal princess things), and ended up casting a burst of magic, injuring several people, then running away, taking money, adventuring gear, and a sword with. She now wanders the woods, staying away from people, trying her best to find out about who she actually is.
Putting the fact that Kalashtar look nothing like high elves aside (that's between you and your DM), That kind of backstory entirely says sorcerer. The Kalashtar has nothing to create that burst of magic and it has nothing to pick up a feat at first level to do this kind of thing so Fighter is completely out from the magic alone, and Bard is out because their magic is learned and controlled much more like a wizard, specially with something like college of Swords. So really that only leaves you with Sorcerer. Which conveniently enough some kind of burst of magic is how most Sorcerer's actually learn that they have magic and even use them for a time starting off so it's basically one of the outright classic starts for sorcerer's.