As the title says, what's everyones opinion on a Draconic sorcerer still being a viable choice in lieu of the Aberrant mind and Clockwork soul in Tasha's? Or is the Draconic sorcerer eventually a dead subclass until/unless its revised?
Compared to aberrant/clockwork you'll really feel the lack of a bonus spell list; I've been playing a draconic sorcerer in a campaign but I've been using a homebrew sub-class that makes some major changes from the original.
The vanilla sub-class isn't so underpowered it's unplayable or anything, the extra hit-points and built in AC are great early level features. Elemental Affinity's bonus damage is okay but doesn't make a big difference to individual battles (it's more a damage over the entire day thing), plus the resistance ability is clunky as hell because tying the trigger to a spell of the same element means you're probably going to be wasting a spell to trigger it, since you need it most against enemies that will probably ignore that element.
Unlike Shadow and Storm Sorcery none of your early features let you do anything new that you can use often which I think is part of why the lack of bonus spells is more noticeable on Draconic; the best "new" feature doesn't come till 14th-level, and even then you've had access to fly for nine levels by then so it's only really freeing up that spell pick and lasting longer (but at reduced speed).
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As the title says, what's everyones opinion on a Draconic sorcerer still being a viable choice in lieu of the Aberrant mind and Clockwork soul in Tasha's? Or is the Draconic sorcerer eventually a dead subclass until/unless its revised?
Compared to aberrant/clockwork you'll really feel the lack of a bonus spell list; I've been playing a draconic sorcerer in a campaign but I've been using a homebrew sub-class that makes some major changes from the original.
The vanilla sub-class isn't so underpowered it's unplayable or anything, the extra hit-points and built in AC are great early level features. Elemental Affinity's bonus damage is okay but doesn't make a big difference to individual battles (it's more a damage over the entire day thing), plus the resistance ability is clunky as hell because tying the trigger to a spell of the same element means you're probably going to be wasting a spell to trigger it, since you need it most against enemies that will probably ignore that element.
Unlike Shadow and Storm Sorcery none of your early features let you do anything new that you can use often which I think is part of why the lack of bonus spells is more noticeable on Draconic; the best "new" feature doesn't come till 14th-level, and even then you've had access to fly for nine levels by then so it's only really freeing up that spell pick and lasting longer (but at reduced speed).
Former D&D Beyond Customer of six years: With the axing of piecemeal purchasing, lack of meaningful development, and toxic moderation the site isn't worth paying for anymore. I remain a free user only until my groups are done migrating from DDB, and if necessary D&D, after which I'm done. There are better systems owned by better companies out there.
I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.
Yes it's certainly viable.
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Tasha