I think my favorite shadow sorcerer quirk is having trouble remembering that dead people and alive people should be treated differently, because it doesn't specify that you only treat alive people like dead people. I want to make a shadow sorcerer that routinely has full conversations with corpses (rather one sided of course), offers them food and doesn't realize they're doing something weird until they don't respond or a party member looks at them weird lol

I'm going to multiclass this with some sort of grappler to play the Undertaker.

Can't wait to make a Shadow Sorcerer, I already have a personality made out for him. He'll be a very whimsical, almost hippy-like character that never is truly serious because behind his smile is the inner darkness of his mortal nihilism in which after death, nothing you've done matters anymore. He kills his enemies with zero remorse, because he simply sees it as ending their suffering/escorting them to the next life. Whenever he'd save a teammate, he wouldn't see it as saving them, he'd see it as an extension of his selfishness because he wants to keep them from the blissful void of death. If he was forced to kill a teammate (let's say they were transforming into a zombie), he'd probably tear up, then saying something along the lines of "It'd be my upmost honor."

shadow sorcerer+ Gunslinger = alucard

I've always been a fan of characters in media with powers over darkness, but who are actually really good people. A kind Shadow Magic Sorcerer will be super fun to play.

Imagine, if you will, a *dark* sorcerer.

Xanathar's Guide to Edgy Characters.

So happy This made the book :D Take that Fey Wild!

love this! and yes, having a sorcerer with a dark sense of humor can be a lot more entertaining and refreshing than our typical, brooding dark mage like character.

I appreciate the Sherlock reference

As much as I love the feywild... I LOVE THE SHADOW SORCERER!!!

in my mind it would be someone like Morticia from the addam's family

Ah Hexblades lost the shadow hound? Oh well. Still hope the Hexblades make it in. Pact of the Blade just wasn't cutting it for me.... I'll see myself out.

Bonus points for the Phantasm reference! Ah, the memories!

Persoanlly, I think it'd be funny and entertaining to play the class, but have the PC's alignment be LG and be completely upbeat and positive. Kinda la Abby from NCIS with magic who snuggles with the hound of ill omen like a puppy

"Come....come join me in the darkness, it is my gift to you".

I got to play one the other night and it was so fun. She was a Half Elf named Belladonna. Sickly pale skin, amber eyes, white hair and fangs. She was a bit like Succy in Little Witch Academia. We killed a baskalisk (spelling that really wrong) and she asked the Paladin to harvest some scales. Then licked them. When she magic missiled its eyes out she laughed at the sound. Loved stunning the DM. "She takes the scales and licks one in a long slow full tongue lick." "Okay so Bella has...wait....did you say she licked it?"

I hope the Raven Queen Warlock makes the cut.

Building a multiclassed LVL twelve character who has four levels of GOO Warlock and eight of Shadow Sorcerer for a oneshot. I fluffed their Pact familiar as a black hound who can peel back it's face to invoke fear (It's using the Quasit as a base) and then it fully transforms into a Hound of Tindalos style eldritch horror who pursues one target till either it or they die. (And if they "die" they revert back to the Quasit Hound) They named him Mister Sniffs and he is a good pupper. The character themselves is a Winter Eladrin who uses a mix of shadows and eldritch horror, mental magics that inspire fear, and ice. I like that they can cast Darkness on something they are holding, teleport to a crowd of enemies bringing the magical darkness with them, and then casting a Distant Spell'd Arms of Hadar to buffet everyone in a twenty foot radius with tentacles. Grasp of Hadar also allows their Eldritch Blast to drag enemies into the darkness. They are a bit of a nihilist but try to enjoy themselves before they like everything else is swallowed by the void.

I came up with a shadow sorcerer that had part of his memories and soul trapped in his shadow. He doesn't remember how he got his powers and he's a nervous wreck all the while his shadow is just facepalming and constantly saving his ass during their pursuit for the truth about what happened to him.

My very first character was a tiefling who was a shadow sorcerer and she was very short and every bar keep that the party met would not see her until way into a conversation and get spooked by her. So... I named her Spook.

I played a Zendikar Vampire Shadow Sorcerer. She worked nicely.

Yes take my money

And when in combat have him sing The Sound of Silence

You basically play as the lost Addams family member.

Wish we had more shadow-themed spells in the sorcerer spell list for us to pull from. Feels wrong to be missing some of the illusion and necromancy spells so affiliated with the Shadowfell. Still gonna play it as my first Sorcerer, though.

Fey sorcerer PLEAAAASSSEEE

Im currently making back up character a life cleric multiclass into shadow sorcerer. She is sort like a plague doctor

This plus ranger with 2 bags of holding full of hand crossbows and the crossbow expert feat = Reaper.

Picked it up recently so stoked to play an Drow Shadow Sorcerer whos trying to deny his inner evils, feel like that character could have a really deep inner conflict

I hope they fix the Phoenix Sorcerer class. I love the idea behind it, but it just doesn't seem to fit with the sorcerer's sorcerer points mechanic and whatnot.

Makes me want to whistle the Addams Family theme.

Hey could you maybe do the quirk thing with the other sorcerer origins?

I hope we get favored soul as well.

add some more theme into the spells type of this class, like "at some level you can add some shadow (necrotic) damage dices to your spells because now you can manipulete the power of the shadowfell" or something like that, dunno it could be cool.

Does it deal 2 damage every time you cast a spell or anything? And can I play an Ethereal being so it doesn't cost a spell slot and OTK my opponent?

Where you get that shirt

Holy Shit this is getting in the book? Hell yeah.

Magica De Spell's magic: "Feed my power dark eclipse, free my form from the abyss. Dormant magic, now unchained. The Shadow Queen, be whole again. "

The way I am wanting to play this is instead of someone that is all grim and dark and who revels in the dead things I want to play some one that wanted to be happy but his family was cursed by a demon and now he has these powers and is going to use them to hunt down the demon that cursed his family and show him why gifting him this power was a bad idea. Think early season Supernatural Sam or Ghost rider, using their powers for good to defend people from the mistake of his parents. Like maybe my parents were a fiend patron warlock and promised the fiend their first born son in a ritual and they have turned me into a "monster" and I am hell bent on never letting what happened to me ever happen to anyone again. I think the heart beat one sounds perfect for this characters quirk as occassionally being shocked by your own heart beat does feel "cursish".

My wife would enjoy this. She loves Sorcerers.

What edition does Mike Mearls run in his home campaign??

Ooooh! So you're releasing these by theme? The Feywild subclasses followed each other and now we have the Shadowfel Next video: Hexblade Warlock!

When does the guide come out?

Can I play that in Adventurers League?

What makes this any different from my warlock that is already seeing through his darkness?

MORE GRIMDARK!

I’m gonna play a Fallen Aasimar Shadow Sorcerer who has a bunch of the quirks. My younger sister is gonna be playing is older, Tiefling sister. He’s either be super edgy or super innocent.

So you could say shadow sorcerers are all about the whole, y'know, being dead thing?

Take my money already WoTC - you win!

Is darkness a good shadow ability? I mean Shadows REQUIRE light right??? Seems off to me.

Did anyone else, while listening to thins, think Death Note?

youtube thinks this is about the game shadow sorcerer from 1991... the cover look a lot like early D&D anyway XD

I wish they didn't give you all the benefits of being a drow with none of the downsides

Weird? Gothic? Ephemeral? ... drow?!

NOOB SAIBOT any one?

Fingers crossed for Lore mastery

aww they nerfed that autorez ability... that things was total bs

So far... SO GOOD!. Me wants A Coookie BUT ME WAIT

So Raven from the Teen Titans?

Soo favored soul, and shadow... doesn't look good for the elemental variants :\

another edgy/emo character fro liam to play in the next crit role campaign lol

Arcane archer?

"Powerful tactical ability" --> Good luck finding a villain that the DM will agree cannot see through your magical darkness. Sadly this makes me feel iffy about it because what creature can see through what is one of the bloated and badly explained topics of 5e.

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