Behind The Revision

For as long as I can remember, the idea of sorcerers have been fascinating to me. The idea of these people with often overwhelming innate powers they might not quite understand. Powers they did not even choose to have, but must learn to control not to hurt anyone around them nor themselves.

Naturally, I was excited to play one for 5E as well, but came to be disappointed in how lackluster the class was compared to what my party members. After playing a Wizard later on, my dissatisfaction and disappointment with the class just grew. Because why play a sorcerer when you can play a wizard, who get many of the same things except more? Only metamagic putting them apart, Sorcerers felt like little more than the Wizard's less talented but charismatic cousin who dropped out of school.

By now I've not only played RAW sorcerer, but about three different Revised versions, yet none of them quite had what I was looking for. I wished for something more than the spell slots swapped for spell points and mixed in with sorcery points. I don't enjoy having to do math at every turn for

something not fully unique, an optional rule already available as an alternative for all spell casters to use in The Dungeon Master's Guide.

Class Features

As a Sorcerer, you gain the following Class Features.

Empowering Reserves

When you make an ability check on your turn, you can spend 2 sorcery points to gain advantage on the check.

Imbuing Touch

As an action, you can touch one nonmagical weapon and spend 2 sorcery points to imbue it with magic for 1 minute. For the duration, the weapon is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks.

Sorcerous Fortitude

As an action, you can spend any number of sorcery points to roll a d4 for each point expended. You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the total rolled.

Flexible Casting

You can use your sorcery points to gain additional spell slots, or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points.

Creating Spell Slots. You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating Spell Slots table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level. Any spell slots of level 6 or higher are especially taxing, and this feature can only be used for one such spell per long rest. The created spell slots vanish at the end of a long rest.

Metamagic

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your spells to suit your needs. You gain three of the following Metamagic options of your choice. You gain another one at 7th, 10th and 17th level. Additionally, you can swap one metamagic feature for another at the end of a long rest so long as you meet its qualifications.

You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless otherwise noted.

Heightened Spell

When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving throw made against the spell.

Overcharged Spell

When you use a spell slot to cast a spell you can spend 4 sorcery points to upcast it to one level higher than the slot used. To be eligible for Overcharged Spell, the spell must be cast using a spell slot no higher than 5.

Quickened Spell

When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.

Seeking Spell

When you cast a spell that requires you to make a spell attack roll or that forces a target to make a Dexterity saving throw, you can spend 1 sorcery point to ignore the effects of half- and three-quarters cover against targets of the spell.

Subtle Spell

When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cast it without any somatic or verbal components.

Twinned Spell

When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and doesn't have a range of self, you can spend a number of sorcery points equal to the spell's level to target a second creature in range with the same spell (1 sorcery point if the spell is a cantrip). To be eligible for Twinned Spell, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell's current level.

Unerring Spell

If you make an attack roll for a spell and miss, you can spend 2 sorcery points to reroll the attack roll. You must use the result of the second roll.

You can use Unerring Spell even if you have already used a different Metamagic option during the casting of the spell.

Sorcerous Restoration

At 3d level, you regain sorcery points equal to your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier whenever you finish a short rest.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th Level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two Ability Scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Sorcerous Mastery

When you reach level 20, nobody could deny your sorcerous might. You've by now gained complete control over your Font of Magic and are able to turn your Sorcery Points into spells and the other way around as a free action. Additionally, when casting a spell, you can infuse it with up to 3 of your chosen metamagic options at once. The regular rules for applying metamagic to one spell per turn still apply.

Origin Spells

This is an alternative feature that you could give to your sorcerer with your DM's permission. The additional spells does not count against the spells known table but cannot be swapped for any other spells.