Level | Proficiency Bonus | Sorcery Points | Features | Cantrips | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
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1 | 2 | - | Sorcerer Archetype, Spellcasting | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2 | 2 | 2 | Font of Magic | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
3 | 2 | 3 | Metamagic | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
4 | 2 | 4 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5 | 3 | 5 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
6 | 3 | 6 | Sorcerer Archetype Feature | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
7 | 3 | 7 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
8 | 3 | 8 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
9 | 4 | 9 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
10 | 4 | 10 | Metamagic | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
11 | 4 | 11 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
12 | 4 | 12 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
13 | 5 | 13 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
14 | 5 | 14 | Sorcerer Archetype Feature | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
15 | 5 | 15 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
16 | 5 | 16 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
17 | 6 | 17 | Metamagic | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
18 | 6 | 18 | Sorcerer Archetype Feature | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
19 | 6 | 19 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
20 | 6 | 20 | Sorcerous Restoration | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Hit Points
Proficiencies
Sorcerer Archetype Level: 1
Choose a sorcerous origin, which describes the source of your innate magical power. The sorcerous origin’s are detailed in the official source materials, as well as detailed below. Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 1st level and again at 6th, 14th, and 18th level.
Spellcasting Level: 1
An event in your past, or in the life of a parent or ancestor, left an indelible mark on you, infusing you with arcane magic. This font of magic, whatever its origin, fuels your spells.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know four cantrips of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. You learn additional sorcerer cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of Table: The Sorcerer.
Spell Slots
Table: The Sorcerer shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these sorcerer spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st-level spell burning hands and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast burning hands using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. The Spells Known column of Table: The Sorcerer shows when you learn more sorcerer spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the sorcerer spells you know and replace it with another spell from the sorcerer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability
Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your sorcerer spells, since the power of your magic relies on your ability to project your will into the world. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a sorcerer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier
Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your sorcerer spells.
Font of Magic Level: 2
At 2nd level, you tap into a deep wellspring of magic within yourself. This wellspring is represented by sorcery points, which allow you to create a variety of magical effects.
Sorcery Points
You have 2 sorcery points, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Sorcery Points column of Table: The Sorcerer. You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long rest.
Flexible Casting
You can use your sorcery points to gain additional spell slots, or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points. You learn other ways to use your sorcery points as you reach higher levels. 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. You can create spell slots no higher in level than 5th. Any spell slot you create with this feature vanishes when you finish a long rest.
Spell Slot Level | Sorcery Point Cost |
1st | 2 |
2nd | 3 |
3rd | 5 |
4th | 6 |
5th | 7 |
Converting a Spell Slot to Sorcery Points. As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot and gain a number of sorcery points equal to the slot’s level.
Sorcerous Restoration Level: 20
At 20th level, you regain 4 expended sorcery points whenever you finish a short rest.
Spell List
- Cantrips
- Acid Splash
- Chill Touch
- Dancing Lights
- Light
- Mage Hand
- Mending
- Message
- Minor Illusion
- Prestidigitation
- Ray of Frost
- Shocking Grasp
- True Strike
- Create bonfire (EE)
- Control flames (EE)
- Frostbite (EE)
- Gust (EE)
- Mold earth (EE)
- Shape water (EE)
- Thunderclap (EE)
- 1st Level
- Burning Hands
- Charm Person
- Color Spray
- Comprehend Languages
- Detect Magic
- Disguise Self
- Expeditious Retreat
- False Life
- Feather Fall
- Fog Cloud
- Jump
- Mage Armor
- Magic Missile
- Shield
- Silent Image
- Sleep
- Thunderwave
- Catapult (EE)
- Ice knife (EE)
- Earth tremor (EE)
- 2nd Level
- Alter Self
- Blindness/Deafness
- Blur
- Darkness
- Darkvision
- Detect Thoughts
- Enhance Ability
- Enlarge/Reduce
- Gust of Wind
- Hold Person
- Invisibility
- Knock
- Levitate
- Mirror Image
- Misty Step
- Scorching Ray
- See Invisibility
- Shatter
- Spider Climb
- Suggestion
- Web
- Aganazzar’s scorcher (EE)
- Dust devil (EE)
- Earthbind (EE)
- Maximilian’s earthen grasp (EE)
- Pyrotechnics (EE)
- Snilloc’s snowball swarm (EE)
- Warding wind (EE)
- 3rd Level
- Blink
- Clairvoyance
- Daylight
- Dispel Magic
- Fear
- Fireball
- Fly
- Gaseous Form
- Haste
- Hypnotic Pattern
- Lightning Bolt
- Major Image
- Protection from Energy
- Sleet Storm
- Slow
- Stinking Cloud
- Tongues
- Water Breathing
- Water Walk
- Erupting earth (EE)
- Flame arrows (EE)
- Melf’s minute meteors (EE)
- Wall of water (EE)
- 4th Level
- Banishment
- Blight
- Confusion
- Dimension Door
- Dominate Beast
- Greater Invisibility
- Ice Storm
- Polymorph
- Stoneskin
- Wall of Fire
- Storm sphere (EE)
- Vitriolic sphere (EE)
- Watery sphere (EE)
- 5th Level
- Animate Objects
- Cloudkill
- Cone of Cold
- Creation
- Dominate Person
- Hold Monster
- Insect Plague
- Seeming
- Telekinesis
- Teleportation Circle
- Wall of Stone
- Control winds (EE)
- Immolation (EE)
- 6th Level
- Chain Lightning
- Circle of Death
- Disintegrate
- Eyebite
- Globe of Invulnerability
- Mass Suggestion
- Move Earth
- Sunbeam
- True Seeing
- Investiture of flame (EE)
- Investiture of ice (EE)
- Investiture of stone (EE)
- Investiture of wind (EE)
- 7th Level
- Delayed Blast
- Fireball
- Etherealness
- Finger of Death
- Fire Storm
- Plane Shift
- Prismatic Spray
- Reverse Gravity
- Teleport
- 8th Level
- Dominate Monster
- Earthquake
- Incendiary Cloud
- Power Word Stun
- Sunburst
- Abi-Dalzim’s horrid wilting (EE)
- 9th Level
- Gate
- Meteor Swarm
- Power Word Kill
- Time Stop
- Wish