Sorcerer

Manifestation 

At 2nd level, you also choose one of the following manifestations, which represents a kind of energy you are especially effective at producing. When you cast a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage, you can change the damage type to your manifestation’s damage type.

Blizzard (Cold)
When you cast a spell that deals cold damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point and choose one creature you can see. If that creature takes cold damage from the spell, it is also chilled, reducing its movement speeds by 10 feet for a number of rounds equal to the level of the spell (minimum 1 round). 

Corrosion (Acid)
When you cast a spell that deals acid damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point and choose one creature you can see. If that creature takes acid damage from the spell, its Armor Class is reduced by 2 until the end of your next turn. 

Hurricane (Lightning or Thunder)
You can treat both lightning and thunder as your manifestation’s damage types. When you cast a spell that deals lightning or thunder damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to produce a thunderous blast around you. Large or smaller creatures within 5 feet of you must succeed on a Anchor saving throw against your spell save DC or be pushed back 10 feet and knocked prone. 

Inferno (Fire)
When you cast a spell that deals fire damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point and choose one creature you can see. If that creature takes fire damage from the spell, it is also set ablaze, taking 2d4 ongoing fire damage for a number of rounds equal to the spell’s level, or until it uses an action to put itself out. 

Venom (Poison)
When you cast a spell that deals poison damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point, causing creatures immune to poison damage to take half damage, and creatures resistant to poison damage to take full damage. 

Latent Power 

By 3rd level, your sorcerer archetype starts to manifest as something people can subconsciously sense, even if they know nothing beyond the mundane, and it affects how they see you. Choose one of the following. 

All Eyes
You gain an expertise die on Persuasion checks. In addition, you can use your magic to make your presence known. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 sorcery point to put out a subtle pulse that causes all creatures within 60 feet to take notice of you, allowing you to speak and be heard even in the midst of chaos. During combat, this notice lasts only a split second—not long enough to distract, but allowing you to make a Charisma check as part of the bonus action used to activate this feature. 

Daunting Energy
You gain an expertise die on Intimidation checks. If you fail an ability check or saving throw against a creature trying to intimidate you, or against an effect that would cause you to become frightened, you can spend 1 sorcery point to immediately reroll the check or save. 

Unsuspecting
You gain an expertise die on Deception checks. When you fail on a Deception check against a humanoid, you can use a combination of fasttalk and your magic to make them forget your misstep, spending 1 sorcery point to reroll the check. On a success, their memory skips a beat and fills in the gap with your new story. On a failure, not only do they not believe you, but anyone who can cast spells and observed the exchange (including your target, if applicable) knows that arcane subterfuge was attempted. 

Metamagic

 At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your spells to suit your needs. You gain two minor Metamagic options, and one moderate Metamagic option. You gain another minor Metamagic option at 5th level, 10th level, 15th level, and 19th level. You gain an additional moderate Metamagic option at 10th and 19th level. When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one Metamagic option with another, instead of replacing a spell. You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless otherwise noted. 

Minor Metamagic

Delayed Spell. When you ready a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point. The spell can be held for up to 1 minute, instead of 1 turn. 

Distant Spell. When you cast a spell that has a range of 5 feet or greater, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double the range of the spell. Alternatively, if you cast a spell that has a range of Touch, you can spend 1 sorcery point to make the range of the spell 20 feet. 

Persistent Spell. When you cast a spell that has a duration of 1 minute or longer, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double the duration, to a maximum of 24 hours. 

Reliable Spell. When you roll a 4 or lower on a spell attack, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll the attack. You can use Reliable Spell even if you have already used a different Metamagic option during the casting of the spell. 

Subdual Spell. When damage from one of your spells reduces one or more creatures to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction and spend 1 sorcery point to stabilize one of the creatures knocked unconscious by it. 

Subtle Spell. When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cast it without any vocalized or seen components. 

Treacherous Spell. When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to alter its components in subtle ways. A creature attempting to identify the spell based on its components perceives it as a different spell of your choice, of the same or lower level. Attempts to counterspell this spell are made at disadvantage. 

Moderate Metamagic 

Careful Spell. When you cast a spell with an instantaneous duration that affects an area, you can spend 1 sorcery point, and choose a number of creatures up to your Charisma modifier in the area (minimum of one creature). A chosen creature is unaffected by the spell. 

Empowered Spell. When you roll damage for a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). You must use the new rolls. You can use Empowered Spell even if you have already used a different Metamagic option during the casting of the spell. 

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. 

Quickened Spell. When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 3 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting. 

Reflexive Spell. Immediately before rolling initiative, you can spend 2 sorcery points to cast a spell of up to 3rd-level that has a casting time of 1 action or 1 bonus action. The spell activates before any other actions in initiative, but doing so uses your action for your first turn in the combat. 

Refracting Spell. When you cast a spell that involves a spell attack roll and targets only a single creature, you can spend an additional 2 sorcery points. If the spell hits, a creature within 5 feet of the original target takes half the spell’s damage. 

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 (or 1 for a cantrip) to target a second creature in range with the same spell. To be eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell’s current level. For example, magic missile and scorching ray are ineligible, but ray of frost can be modified by Twinned Spell. 

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 increase two ability scores of your choice 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. 

Arcane Innovations 

At 4th level, you acquire insights in arcana that others would never realize. You gain an arcane innovation of your choice. Your arcane innovations are detailed at the end of the class description. The Innovations Known column of the Sorcerer table shows when you gain additional innovations. 

Arcane Refinement 

At 6th level, your command over your magic becomes more precise, and you are able to assert more control over it. Choose one of the following. 

Deep Font
You can reach beyond your limits to draw more power from within. When you finish a short rest, you may expend a number of hit dice up to your Charisma modifier to regain some of your magic essence. For each hit die expended in this way, you regain 1d6 sorcery points. Once you have used this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest. 

Patient Aptitude
You may pick three spells with the ritual tag. These spells need not be from the sorcerer spell list, but they must be of a level no higher than your max spell level. You can cast these spells as rituals, though you don’t gain the ability to cast them normally with sorcery points, nor do they count toward your spells known. Each time you gain a sorcerer level, you may replace one of these ritual spells with another instead of replacing another known spell.

Prodigious Innovator
Choose three cantrips from any spell list. These cantrips don’t count toward your cantrips known. 

Rapturous Presence 

Beginning at 9th level, your magic becomes a presence that noticeably bears down on creatures. Choose one of the following. 

Larger Than Life
Your power tends to distort people’s perception of you, causing you to seem more dangerous than you are. You have advantage on Intimidation checks made to threaten someone with your magic. On a failure, your target is unconvinced and unless you make good on your threat with an unambiguous show of force to prove your mettle, this feature no longer functions until you prove your reputation again. Additionally, features and traits that attempt to evaluate how tough you are always give the impression that you are more dangerous than you actually are. 

Nobody’s Fool
People find it difficult to lie to you or to conceal their motives in your presence. You gain a bonus to Insight checks equal to your Constitution modifier. In addition, you can spend 1 sorcery point as an action to project an aura of honesty. For the next 10 minutes, creatures within 10 feet of you have disadvantage on Deception checks made to lie or conceal the truth. When a creature in this aura fails a Deception check, it accidentally blurts out something it didn’t mean to while attempting to spin its lie. 

Otherworldly
You have a way with creatures wildly unlike yourself. Select three of the following creature types: aberration, celestial, dragon, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead. You have advantage on Charisma checks to make a first impression on a creature of one of your chosen types, and if you do not share a common language, you can still communicate some simple concepts to them such as “friendly”, “help”, and “run”. In addition, by spending 2 sorcery points and 1 minute in meditation, you can change your creature type to one of the chosen creature types. This transformation lasts for 1 hour, and cannot be reversed early without repeating the meditation and spending the sorcery points again 

Font of Magic

At 10th level, the wellspring of arcane energy in you is so strong it can be used by others. During a short rest, a character proficient with arcane focus can choose to attune with you. While attuned, that player may use you as a focus for their spells and while they can see you are you are within 100 feet, can make their spells with a range other than self originate from you.

Evolving Manifestation 

At 12th level, you gain a deeper understanding of your magics. You may either take the improved form of the manifestation you selected at 2nd level, or you may choose an additional feature from the Manifestation list. 

Evolving Blizzard
When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals cold damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to gain 1d6 temporary hit points per level of the spell cast. While you have these temporary hit points and a creature hits you with a melee weapon attack, the attacker takes 1d10 cold damage. These temporary hit points last for 1 hour. 

Evolving Corrosion
When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals acid damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to create a 10-foot radius pool of acid centered on either the target of the spell or the spell’s point of origin. The area is difficult terrain, and when a creature ends its turn in the area it takes 2d8 acid damage. The pool remains for 1 minute or until you use a bonus action to dismiss it. 

Evolving Hurricane
When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals thunder or lightning damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to create a 15-foot radius storm centered on you, which moves with you. The area of the storm is heavily obscured and counts as difficult terrain, but you can see and move through it normally. At the end of each subsequent turn you can spend an additional sorcery point to maintain it, otherwise it dissipates. 

Evolving Inferno
When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals fire damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to store some of the energy of the spell as a flame you hold in one hand. You can use an action to throw this flame, making a ranged spell attack against a target you can see within 30 feet. On a hit, the creature takes 1d8 fire damage per level of the spell cast to trigger this effect. The flame lasts for up to 1 minute or until it is thrown. 

Evolving Venom
When you cast a spell that deals poison damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point and choose one creature you can see. If the target creature takes poison damage from the spell, it takes 2d6 ongoing poison damage for 1 minute or until a creature uses an action to treat the victim (requiring a Medicine check against your spell save DC). 

Major Metamagic 

At 15th level, in addition to a minor metamagic option, you gain one major metamagic option. These are more powerful expressions of your magics, though they come at significantly higher costs. You gain an additional major metamagic option at 20th level. 

Major Metamagic Options 

Consumptive Spell. When you cast a spell that deals damage, you can spend 4 sorcery points. You, or a creature within 10 feet of you, regain hit points equal to half the damage roll for the spell. If you roll damage multiple times for a spell, you only restore hit points from the first roll. 

Contingent Spell. When you cast a spell, rather than have it go off immediately, you can spend 6 sorcery points and describe an external condition. When that condition occurs before you finish a long rest, you can use your reaction to cast the spell. You can only have one Contingent Spell at a time. 

Echo Spell. When you cast a spell of 5th-level or lower, you can spend sorcery points equal to the sorcery points spent to cast the spell. The spell repeats on the next turn, originating from the same point and aimed at the same target as the first instance of the spell. 

Intense Spell. Before rolling damage for a spell or seeing the result of any saving throws or attack rolls for the spell, you can spend sorcery points equal to the spell’s level. The spell deals its maximum possible damage to one target.

Arcane Clutch 

Starting at 20th level, you are able to cast more spells with ease. The Sorcery Point cost for casting a spell is reduced by 1/3 of the spell's level (rounded down, minimum 0), and you are no longer restricted by the amount of 6th, 7th and 8th level spells you can cast per long rest.

Explosive Magics 

Also at 20th level, the magic you bring to bear can be made to build upon itself. When you cast a spell of 4th-level or lower that deals damage, you can spend a number of sorcery points equal to half the spell’s level (minimum 1) to reroll any dice that have the maximum result and add them to the total. For example, if you cast an exploding fireball and roll three 6s among your damage dice, you roll an additional 3d6, and continue to reroll any 6s adding them to the total damage dealt. 

Arcane Innovations 

When you gain access to a new arcane innovation, choose one of the following. 

Draw Nourishment 

You can consume things that most people wouldn’t consider sustenance, though it’s hardly pleasant. You can spend 3 sorcery points before eating a pound of just about anything organic — bark, grass, cactus flesh, bone, whatever’s at hand—and so long as you can stomach the taste, it counts as 1 Supply for you as your body transmutes it into something more edible. A poisonous substance consumed in this way is still poisonous. 

Hot Air 

The source of your magic is strangely buoyant. Any time you have sorcery points remaining, your weight is reduced by half, and you take half damage from falling. Additionally, if more than half your available inventory slots are empty, you float on water. 

Lingering Touch 

When you encounter a shed piece of a creature (such as a lock of hair, bloody bandage, a scale, or a tooth), you can touch that object and instantly attune to it as if it were a magic item. If you are carrying the shed piece and attuned to it when you see the creature from which it originated, you immediately know that it belongs to that creature, at which point the attunement ends. At the Narrator’s discretion, you may learn additional cryptic information from being attuned to such things. 

Retrace 

By spending 1 minute in meditation, you can reflect on the magical aura you leave behind as you travel. After doing so, you can perfectly retrace the steps you’ve taken in the past 4 hours. 

Mage Hunter 

When tracking a creature that can cast at least 1 spell, you can attempt to do so by focusing on the mystic energy it leaves in its wake, allowing you to use your Constitution for any ability checks made to track it. 

Magnetic Step 

You can move along vertical surfaces at half your speed without needing to make an ability check. If you end your turn on such a surface, you immediately fall unless you have some other way to support yourself. 

Strange Traces 

While traveling, you can spend 1 sorcery point to obscure your trail. For the next hour, any tracks your group leaves become random, zigzagging, and incomprehensible. Creatures have disadvantage on Ability checks to track you and become lost on a failed check. 

Ominous Insight 

When you know, you know, you know? When you fail an Intelligence Ability check, you can attempt to draw on your magics to find an answer and reroll the check. On a failure, your attempt clouds your mind and you have disadvantage on Intelligence checks until you finish a short rest. While suffering this disadvantage, you can’t use Ominous Insight again. 

Wode Sense 

While traveling, any time you enter an illusory terrain or magic is used to cause you to become lost, you always notice within 1 minute of being affected.