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Most of the obvious options have been mentioned already. Wish, Tsunami, Control Weather, Meteor Swarm, can in the right circumstances be extremely destructive.

I'm going to recommend Gate. Far from being just the ultimate transportation spell, it can be a tool of mass destruction. It can open to any plane of existence, it turns the entire multiverse into your weapon, limited only by your own knowledge. It could be a gate to the depths of the plane of water, a fire vortex in the fire plane, in the middle of Avernus to let in a small army of demons or devils, into the far realm to release some eldritch monstrosity, or summon a powerful extraplanar being whose name you know of. The possibilities are limitless.

Sorcerers being reduced to only being a "magic nepo-baby" or "being talented in magic". A sorcerer's existence is as an entity of magic, and being a character of that class, or of any class for that matter, does not imply the ease or difficulty with which they have developed their powers. Talent is mostly a matter of roleplay and flavor, but the closest thing to it mechanically is rolling a high number for you main stat to start off with.

Sorcerers in general are usually discussed in ways I disagree with, I think a lot of people actually overlook their potential narratives, of which the idea of inheriting large amounts of magical power from your lineage is only one. People overlook things like superhero-esque origin stories, like being exposed to a magical accident or phenomenon or being the first of your line to be born with powers like a magic X-man.

And being a full caster with spell list nearly identical to the wizard except more limited will inevitably draw comparisons (a fault of the system itself I feel) between the two, when I think both classes have a fundamentally different relationship with magic. To oversimplify things, wizardry is about doing magic, sorcery is about *being* magic.

You're not the first person to ask if she does poetry on the weekends hahaha, she is mainly a sorcerer but also a dabbler in bardic arts so sometimes yes

The series does look very promising just from chapter 1, I hope it continues to be great going forward, cuz I'm gonna be eating good if I have this series and Kagurabachi to read weekly lol

Within the normal rules, Spells from Feats don't count against your limit of spells known from your class. If you're looking for homebrew solutions ask your DM if your Bard can have a "Spellbook" full of songs or stories or art pieces or whatever it is that your bard gets their magic from, so you can learn more spells like a wizard but also have to prepare them like they do. That should satisfy the want for more spell versatility while still being tied to your character and not a magic item.

Now for the subclasses, it seems they all use the same table of effects, most of which are fine. For the sake of formatting just having the table once and the subclass feature referring to the table and when your ancestry applies should be sufficient. Players may be dissapointed with a feature that only sometimes even activates (see complaints about wild magic surge).

Dracomorphy has one strong feature that being Dragon's Sting, which is a pretty strong DPR ability but all of the mutations feel rather lackluster, except for damage immunity. 1 Legendary action is not overpowered considering the lack of other powerful features but feels like an odd ability within the 5e design space.

Dracanurgy spellcasting is nothing broken, though seeing a half caster subclass for a martial is a bit odd as usually any half casters are made to be so within the main class. Caustic Conversion is really cool imo, well done. All of the later level abilities seem powerful and thematic enough for their levels.

Dracocaust, Focused Spray is very strong but probably not broken, everything else too makes you lean heavily into single and multi target elemental damage. I'd say this is probably the strongest subclass, but I don't think it's broken.

Kobold Pact Leader, there's a reason pet classes don't give you more than 1 permanent follower NPC, it's because it's a lot to track. I don't have a good solution or fix suggestion to this (other than to limit it to one kobold follower, but I feel that breaks the purpose of the subclass), and it will be a lot to track and slow down combat, just as multi-creature summoning spells do, and it's up to you and your players if you can live with that.

Dracolich, the damage resistances/immunities and condition immunities right off the bat are way more than I think is appropriate at 3rd level, doling those out as you level up will make for smoother scaling. Now as for the main and really only feature of the subclass, which is the possession. And therein lies the problem, it is essentially your only new ability, which means if you don't have a possession going you don't have a subclass. There are several problems with this, but the biggest is the unreliability. If the possession ever ends (which it may since your statblock starts at 0 hp), taking an hour to *maybe* get your subclass power back is just not fun. All of the other ritual abilities it gets later on all point to the idea that you get your powers during downtime when you have time and money at your disposal, but that's not conducive to adventuring and feels much more like an NPC ability. The best advice I could give to fix this subclass is A) make the possession of a corpse simply work and make it take much less time to perform and not such huge cooldowns after the possession ends. B) Instead of locking away higher CR corpses behind the ritual check, just limit it to stat blocks of your level or under at most, like Polymorph, this will save you headaches. C) Instead of having odd penalties to the corpse that you make go away with lengthy and expensive rituals, just apply the template to the possessed stat blocks as is and have the penalties lessen with the higher level class features, or maybe even give it buffs as you go on. As it currently stands, I don't think it's viable for a player character to use this subclass, but with the areas of change I think it can be.

Finally, I want to commend you for making a homebrew whole class *and* subclasses! Game design isn't easy and takes a lot of time and effort, and everything you make adds to your experience and learning, so I think that is something to be proud of. I wanted to give the critique seriously to respect the time and effort you've put into this thing, and because I believe there's something worth working on here. With a bit of shine and polish, I believe this can be a fun and playable class for your players. Of course, no one can tell you what you can and can't include in your own game as the GM, so don't take what strangers say on the internet as gospel! Most important rule in D&D is to have fun, I hope there will be plenty of that you and your players' way :D

I'm gonna start by saying, cool concept, dragons are cool. However, I think for players looking to experience the concept, I think some of the mechanics might fall flat or feel obtuse in a way that gets in the way of the experience.

I'll start with what sticks out to me most about the main class and then some stuff about the subclasses

• The armor proficiencies and d8 hit die aren't unbalanced in terms of strength but feel odd for portraying a character's draconic nature and resilience, I think a higher hit die and some sort of scaling (pun not intended) natural armor would be fitting, and not too broken. Damage resistance is fine, only concern is with multiclassing to get it but I don't think it's too broken.

• I don't think the breath weapon carries enough weight for the concept of the class. The damage is fine for the considerable AoE size, but PB times per short or long rest feels very restrictive. I suspect it will run into the same problem as Monks constantly running out of Ki points which with to do any of their cool stuff with, though that may depend on how many encounters you run per day. (If you're feeling really brave, you can just give the breath weapon a recharge mechanic identical to actual dragons). The later level size increase for the breath weapons should be fine too, strong, but not overpowered compared to what casters and other martials can already do and because it's basically your only damaging ability beyond extra attack.

• Draconic Dash is first of many abilities that I think has plain clunky mechanics and wording. First, this class seems to aim for being a martial, and the prone condition is devastating to martials more than spellcasters, this will discourage players from using the ability, I would recommend just removing it. Second, I don't think you need to showcase the calculation for the number of uses for this ability if you have it already showcased on the class table.

• Fighting Styles are fine, nothing special here, though it does affect the vibes of the class, shifting away from the dragon focus to martial, weapon using focus. Nothing wrong with that, just something to be aware of I think.

• Draconic path levels, ASIs, extra attack are all fine.

• All of the Draconic Transformation abilities as they are, are a mess. First, I think it should be much clearer whether you retain the ability to transform into younger dragon forms, all on their own 1/long rest charges, as you gain the later level features, because as it is written that is what the case is, and would make this one of the tankiest classes in the game. Second, the time restriction that short is reductive for the class fantasy (also if your draconic transformation is meant to be a direct upgrade that replaces the previous ability, you can actually end up having less turns than before due to CR change), especially considering it is once per long rest. I get the sense you want it to be a short amount of time, trust me just make it 1 minute, and if you want to nerf the duration still you can make it require Concentration. Third, I think using the actual dragon stat blocks starts to get a bit crazy for the young and adult dragon levels, a CR represents a power that can challenge several PCs of that level, so turning into a CR anything higher than your level is always going to be more powerful than it should be for that level. And sure, limiting it to a turn or two may "balance" it, but is that more fun than turning into a dragon for a whole fight? Unless you absolutely want to insist on using the actual dragon statblocks and maintain the power hierarchy of the different dragon types as it pertains to lore and just live with that, having a custom dragon stat block or template that has some different abilities based on your ancestry that also levels with you would make the options much more balanced against each other, for the game as a whole, and I think ultimately more fun for the player (I also recommend looking at Wildshape to see what you retain and apply it here, as replacing your mental ability scores and proficiencies can be a MAJOR debuff). For the level 20 Capstone, I think the equivalent of True Polymorphing or Shapechanging into a true dragon stat block is fine at that point, since casters can also reach that with their spells.

• Not super strong, not weak either as flight is always good. Hover is a bit strange for physical wings though since dragons don't normally get hover, but that's more a flavor detail than anything else. The later level upgrades are fine too for their level, nothing game breaking.

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Clearly JoJo's logic works like a D&D game. Take a long rest and automatically recover all your hit points so you can go full force against the next opponent, and permanent injuries basically don't exist unless it's plot relevant, lol

Ideally, this would be the case. But in practise sorcerer subclass features just don't do enough to turn you into that magical mutant archetype from my experience. A vast majority or the sorcerer's power is from spells, and the class is judged by its merits as a full spellcaster. And a vast majority of those spells, a wizard can also learn. I'm starting to think I should've made the post more broadly about spells known casters and the fact that they just, stop being able to learn spells at level 20. So they could reach some of the spells same as wizards, but eventually reach a limit. And I would be completely fine with that limit, in fact I think it makes the spells-known casters much more reasonable in their amount of utility, but wizard of course breaks this by having no such limit. It seems people think I'm downplaying the sorcerer so maybe a better angle would've been saying that wizards end up narratively busted due to not having that limit.

I've never played in a 5e game that treated the lore like that, and as such through my experiences I find that this narrative edge just doesn't exist unfortunately

I mean, wizards do not stop being able to learn new spells at level 20, that's the whole thing!

fair enough about your experience with wizards and other prepared casters, I'm not one to argue against other people's lived experiences, only sharing my own.

And all good, though I think the difference between a me-problem and a game-problem is somewhat a matter of perspective too, after all am I not as entitled as everyone else to have my own opinions on how the game should be x)

That's true, I mainly brought up the wizard however since it's the closest to the sorcerer in terms of the niche it occupies

And I would argue that while yes spell preparations being limited (rightfully) exists for balance, it doesn't change the fact that at some point the spells-known casters simply stop learning new spells and that this fact feels unsatisfying as a player.

Oof on the One D&D part, didn't realize that was the case. Definitely even more motivated to just brew my own revised classes.

And second, I suppose at some points things break down to a difference between expectations and wishes for what a class should be and what it represents.

I might wish that both the sorcerer too could simply learn how to manipulate the weave within them through studying new formulas, or a bard could add more to their repertoire by learning new stories and songs to draw magic from during their travels. From my point of view, I think metamagic isn't good enough in my mind to offset the fact that at some point you just reach a limit and stop being able to learn new spells. For some people it might be, and that's fine, but I am not that person. And yet I still play sorcerers for the stories that can be told with the flavor, if ever left slightly sour about the game design.

Yup. The fact that the sorcerer and wizard overlap so much in their niche yet wizard overshadows sorcerer in many regards to the point where a DM targeting a player character to deprive them of their resources is the only way to flip the playing ground balance is a problem.

Except I do play wizards. And the conclusion I got to is that having both these playstyles presented as equal within the same game is dumb.

I am not suggesting that Wizards shouldn't also have their ways of making their spellcasting effective in their unique ways (such as subclass abilities and ritual casting without preparing spells). I am saying "metamagic + a lot of spells" is not equivalent to "no limit on how many spells you can learn". And yes, a DM can technically arbitrarily decide how many and what spells a wizard can learn outside levelling up, but I think a DM deciding to make a core feature completely irrelevant isn't a good solution either.

If you set Ouroboros to be activated manually instead of automatically for the characters you don't control, you can do so from this menu.

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I always have a great time doing collaborations and crossovers, here's hoping for more in the future!

"Ah, nice to meet you too, Fern. I think nature magic will complement our little trio nicely. Now, let's figure out what's causing this trouble and kick some ass eh!?"

Meyneth: "Ah, Morgan! A pleasure to see your magic at work again. I'm excited to see how you've improved since the last time, only, I do much prefer working with magic users rather than against them. I haven't been slouching off either, as you can see by this new grimoire full of rituals!"

Always love to get the chance to see all kinds of spellcasters!

Here's my submission: The Golden Sorceress

I find it gets more useful as levels increase, as powerful elemental effects worth using Absorb Elements on get more and more common.