#to reach the surface and learn more and more about magic and his draconic ancestry

[deimcs]

VARIAN THE WEB RIPPER • drow • sage • red draconic sorcerer • traitor to lolth

(A CURSE, UTTERED BY DIVINE LIPS) Never again you will know the comfort of my presence in the darkness, your eyes will bleed away the sweetness of my gift until only shadows remain. I mark you as a betrayer, unclean and unwanted, undeserving of any touch of purity. Run now, little rat, hide in the sun while you can, covered in soot and contempt but know this: I will make sure all my children know your heresy. They will find you and bring you back in my embrace, where your punishment awaits.

[faranae]

Sorc!sam tag is sorcerer? Does Sam is sorcerer in 5e? Its good for a class!

Sam's a wild magic sorcerer yes, though he does have one level in rogue! I’m in a homebrew Ravnica game with @spudinacup playing as her boy Funnel! 

Sam’s spell list is something that’d make a power gamer cry, I think, but I’ve been careful as this campaign progresses to only pick spells that are in-character for him even if it means less pure combat potential. This is also why his stats are so odd for a sorcerer. (CON is actually his best stat! He’s the party tank!) 

Replicating Sam’s skillset and affinity for water in a Dungeons and Dragons setting was very fun!  

Cantrips: 

Acid Splash, Poison Spray, Shape Water, and Mending all fit his area of study and background as a Simic researcher. He also has Light as a cantrip, which he studied to learn later on after getting tired of being the only party member that couldn’t see in the dark. 

L1: 

Detect Poison and Disease and Sleep, again fit his areas of study in his guild. He USED to know Fog Cloud as well, but after a few unfortunate instances of the party finding it to be a pain in the ass he later learned to make the effect more localized (my in-character rationale for trading that spell in to learn Gaseous Form later on!)

L2: 

Mind Spike - This one seems out of nowhere unless you know Sam’s canon characterization better. He is a kind enough character, but when startled or angry he tends to lash out with his power. My DM has house-ruled that when Sam kills characters with this spell there is a very high chance their head just fucking explodes. I think we’re up to 8. Funnel’s been keeping track and seems oddly indifferent to Sam’s insistence that is not an intentional side effect of the spell. 

Spider Climb was a fun in-character thing! Funnel early on crossed a large gap by walking on the walls as he can do that inherently as part of his race (Simic bioengineering is fun, yo). When Sam pointed out he couldn’t follow him, Funnel snidely asked “Have you ever tried?”. The matter was thought resolved until several levels later when Sam surprised him by following him up to the ceiling on an expedition. Since then, many combats have been cheesed by the two parking on non-floor surfaces out of reach.

L3: 

Gaseous Form came about as Sam tried to make his Fog Cloud less hindering to Funnel in combat. Turns out monks kinda like being able to see what they’re doing. Who knew? 

Lightning Bolt is another very fun in-character learned spell. I mentioned above that Sam's magic is powered by the Wild rather than any sort of Draconic or otherworldly ancestry. To those of you who don’t know D&D, wild magic has a relatively high chance (depending on your DM) of misfiring with additional effects off a randomly-rolled table. This can be anything from accidentally turning your entire table invisible while checking if your food is poisoned to literally cooking a band of angry enemies by accidentally calling down a lightning strike on their heads. 

Needless to say those are both actual examples of how Sam’s magic has misfired so far in this campaign. On seeing the destruction wrought in the latter incident, Sam promptly set about studying to see if he could replicate the effect. 

He most definitely could. It is very destructive and he really only uses it when extremely pissed off.