#sorcerer

The Great Gang, circa our session 100! Our sorcerer came back!!!!

The last couple of days were incredibly exhausting, but drawing your wonderful requests helps in staying sane. An awesome Pathfinder sorcerer OC for the 5th charity sketch.

Yo- so- I’ve been doing some thinking recently. Specifically about what ways in TTRPGs geography would/should/does effect the prevalence and manifestation of magic. 

Like we all get druids hang out in the woods- clerics are around temples- wizards have towers and schools and all that jazz in some classic fantasy. That just sorta scratches the surface of what I’m thinking about though. And to a certain extent this idea has been considered by the Circle of the Land Druids but id like to explore it further.

For example- let’s us, you and I- look at the Tempest Cleric. It makes sense to me that the storm gods are prayed to more heavily in costal regions and so it tracks to me that in port towns or seaside villages the most common/largest/best kept temples would be staffed by Tempest Clerics. And that when a ship goes out to sea they either get blessed by a stormy priest or even bring one along both to keep wind up and in the sails and to prevent shipwrecking storms from arising. 

I think this train of though kinda continues to track with other classes too. I would posit that rural or more isolated communities would be more likely to have a sorcerer or warlock as arcane casters than a wizard just based on access to fancy magical education. It’s way easier to make a deal with a hag for some good good magic then it is to move your ass a thousand miles just to be the man who went to wizard school. AAAAND think through this with me- I would argue it is more beneficial for a village to have an in with a hag than one good wizard- help protect your crops in the fall, maybe get a milder winter, maybe your village livestock never really seems to have issues with predators. No good ol’ wizard is really gonna be able to do that.

On the subject of arcane nerds however I think some schools of magic would be more popular foci of study in different areas. A rural wizard might practice divination to find the ideal time for planting and how late you can leave crops in before the seasons change. An urban wizard might be more inclined towards abjuration or evocation- two schools where they city they live in might be more interested in employing them for defense or what not.

I dunno if all this makes sense to anyone else but I’ve really been thinking about it a lot recently and wanted to throw it on out there.

Made up some character reference sheets/ “what’s in my bag” for my two D&D OCs! I made Elaria’s a while back but just got around to making one for Xandar (which is why the styles are slightly different) but I think they look so cute together so I wanted to post them as a pair! Elaria is a wood elf druid & Xandar is a drow wild magic sorcerer ✨

some doodles of my D&D OC in some outfits I think he would like! his name is Xandar, he’s a Drow wild magic sorcerer ✨ he’s a fancy lad who likes ruffles and tight pants & if you couldn’t tell I’m obsessed with him

Flesh of the Living Hive – Pathfinder Spellcaster Feat (First Edition)

The endless & eternal Hive coils within you: breath of your breath, blood of your blood, a cacophony of sinew and chitin, an ocean of caustic acid.

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Prerequisites: Neutral Evil, caster level 1st; see Special, below

Benefit: You may – at any time, as a free action – choose to gain all the physical benefits and drawbacks of Corruption Stage 2[Hive corruption]. 

You retain this Corruption Stage for one minute per character level you possess; your Corruption cannot increase to Stage 3.

You do not acquire Manifestations for your Corruption normally. Instead, any time that you would normally gain a feat* (including a Bonus Feat, with your GM’s permission, such as from the Aberrant Bloodline), you may instead select any one Manifestation for which you otherwise meet the prerequisites. You receive the benefits of any Manifestation selected in this way only while you possess a Corruption Stage. Your Manifestation level – for purposes of this feat – is always equal to one half your character level, rounded up.

*with your GM’s permission, you may also choose to gain access to a new Manifestation in place of an Oracle Revelation; oracles with this ability often possess access to the Mystery of the Dark Tapestry.

At will as a move action, while you possess a Corruption Stage, you may expend a single spell or spell-slot of 1st level or higher to gain any one additional Manifestation for which you meet the prerequisites. Your access to this special Manifestation lasts for one minute. You always gain all effects of the Stain associated with any Manifestation that you acquire via use of this feat; Stains acquired by gaining a temporary Manifestation always last for 24 hours, even after the Manifestation has faded.

During this time, whenever you summon one or more creatures that would normally be available with the entropic,fiendish, or resolute template using a summon monster spell (or an effect that mimics such a spell), you may choose to instead apply the Hive Creature Simple Template to each such creature.

In addition, while this ability is active, you add hive larva swarm and hive warrior to your summon monster list as 4th level creatures; thus, you could summon a single hive warrior using summon monster IV or summon 1d3 hive larva swarms using summon monster V. You also add hive queen to your summon monster list as a 7th level creature;  thus, you could summon a single hive queen using summon monster VII or summon 1d3 hive queens using summon monster VIII.

Any damaging spell or spell-like ability that you use while you possess a Corruption Stage deals half of its damage as acid damage.

At 9th level, you may expend a single spell or spell slot of 4th level or higher as a standard action to use either of the following abilities:

• dimension door. This magical transportation must begin and end in a square that includes a hive larva swarm.
• apply the swarmblooded template to any one living, corporeal creature within close range (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) with 15 or more Hit Dice (such as a hive queen); this template persists for one minute per caster level you possess. Any creature enhanced in this way always bleeds hive larva swarms when injured.

Whenever you summon a Hive creature, you may choose to summon any such creatures as a move action (rather than as a full-round action); if you do so, the range of your summon monster ability drops to 0 ft.: all creatures summoned by use of this ability must appear in a square either directly adjacent-to your own or overlapping your own (in the case of a hive larva swarm), emerging directly from your own flesh.

At will as a move action, you may cause any one hive creature that you have summoned to explode and die, activating its Death Throes special ability as appropriate for creatures of the hive subtype.

Finally, you are considered to possess the shapechanger subtype for purposes of the Gruesome Shapechanger feat; gaining Corruption Stage 2 via use of this feat is considered to be a use of change shape.

Special: While this feat is active, you may never refuse any direct order from any anunnaki, up-to and including such suicidal orders as performing a coup de grace upon yourself and then voluntarily failing the Fortitude save. You may not harm or endanger any anunnaki; if ordered to do so by another anunnaki, you may instead take your own life. You may not deliberately speak any lie to an anunnaki, including bluffing, stating half-truths with the intent to deceive, exaggerating, telling white lies or practicing any other type of intentional misdirection; this applies to all forms of verbal, non-verbal, magical and written communication.

Fortunately, anunnaki in-phase with our reality are rare beyond imagining and this limitation is rarely enforced.

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Special:This feat may be gained multiple times. Each additional time this feat is selected, you may choose any one living, corporeal creature with a CR of 4 or less, such as a Tiger,GiantDire Wolf,Gargoyle,Corpsefeaster Otyugh,AcidCheetah,Ice Troll,MissingElkorAdvancedGiant Black Widow Spider. Any time that you would summon a hive larvae swarm or a hive warrior via use of this feat, you may instead choose to summon one of your selected creatures and apply the Hive Creature Template as you do so.

Alternatively, each additional time this feat is selected, you may choose any one living, corporeal creature of CR 6 or less, such as a babau,belker,cave giant,death worm,giantanaconda,girallonorkyton. At will as a full-round action (but see Sudden Evolution, below), you may cause any one hive warrior that you have summoned to explode and die, activating its Death Throes special ability as normal. You then automatically summon a new CR 6 creature of your selected type (above) and apply the Hive Creature Template as you do so; this creature must appear in a square that was immediately vacated by your now-deceased hive warrior.

Sudden Evolution: You may always choose to expend a single spell or spell slot of 1st level or higher to activate this ability as a standard action rather than as a full-round action.

You must have ready access to a fully-built version of the final stat-block for any creature you choose to summon by use of this feat, approved by your GM, before you may use this ability.

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