Radiant Chaotic
A downloadable subclass
This here is the messiest possible sorcerer, one who can't control their magic in any way, shape, or form. If you like playing magic classes but feel like you don't get to roll enough dice, or like thinking on your feet rather than planning ahead, this subclass is for you.
Look down at the bottom for community copies (free!)
The provided tables cover all PHB sorcerer spells.
In order to make running this subclass a little easier on the player, I've created a google sheet to handle generating spell lists, rolling to find out what spell is cast, and such RNG-heavy mechanics, which is can be accessed via a link on the download page for this subclass.
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Development log
- Spell Roller available!Jul 03, 2023
- Crowdfunding for a browser tool to run this class!Feb 13, 2022
- Formatting fixed!Jun 09, 2021
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I have a very improv-heavy DM that will love me for showing this to them (unfortunately we're mid-campaign so I don't get to play this yet ;-;). As the first buyer of it on sale, hopefully, the extra cash will help develop that browser tool!
I just wanted to thank you for this subclass! I was trying to find a subclass/class for a child character I'm making and nothing seemed to fit exactly what I needed. I had gotten to the point where I was actually planning to apporach my DM and ask to homebrew a subclass because there was just nothing that could encompass the chaos I needed for a character that valued order but couldn't really control anything that surrounded them. This subclass fits so perfectly and it just looks so fun to play! Thank you again!
Glad I could fill a void! Enjoy!
Fun subclass! I've got a fewquestions though:
1) Is it on purpose that chromatic orb is on the noncombat spells list? Because I can't see how that could be interpreted as anything other than a combat spell...
2) The phrasing of the 15th level class feature is a little unclear. When exactly do you roll the chaos aura die? Is it when you are attacked (as a reaction?) or whenever you want to cast a combat spell?
3) How does this work in terms of action economy? For instance, if my sorcerer uses her bonus action to do something and then decides to cast a spell as her action and rolls on the table...and the roll ends up being a bonus action spell, what happens? Does the spell just become an action instead, or does it just not happen? What about spells that have casting times of 1 minute or more? If someone rolls one of those during combat, they're basically screwed bc of how many rounds that will take to cast. If I might make a suggestion: It might be a good idea to have separate tables for action spells, bonus action spells, and spells with longer casting times...
1) No, that's definitely a mistake, keeping track of everything in putting this together is a struggle
2) Chaos Aura activates "when you are attacked", so as a reaction.
3) This subclass deliberately breaks action economy and many of the RAW mechanics for spellcasting. It might make sense to think of "accidentally" cast spells as Instant spells from MTG, and intentionally cast spells as Sorceries (Instants may be played whenever and their effect happens simultaneously with whatever else is going on, while Sorceries have to be played on your turn/take an action). Flavor-wise, your sorcerer is not casting these spells herself and doesn't have to worry about casting time because the spell just manifests itself from the chaos energy. As for getting unlucky and rolling a spell with a long casting time during combat, that's one of the trade-offs for being able to cast any spell in the list and having a chance to cast multiple full-action spells in a single round. You may have droughts where you just keep rolling non-damaging spells in combat, and you may have rounds where you hit three or more damaging spells in a row (I've had a combat where I cast Burning Hands, Lightning Bolt, and Thunder Wave in a single round).
Hope that answers your questions!
first, like others, the pdf has an error where the second part of the casting table is off the page.
second, I wanted to know if the spells cast by Chaos Aura use spell slots (rn I'm thinking that they do not)
Chaos Aura spells do not expend spell slots! I've added a clarification in the updated document.
pog, can't wait to play this!
got this off the palestinian aid bundle and I have to say (as someone who does their own homebrew) i really like this! the flavor of a sorcerer absolutely beholden to pure chaos is really fun. my only issue is that the pdf's formatting seems to be broken and I can't see all the spells, with the spells by type being almost completely unreadable. is there possibly a fix for this? if not, i understand, and I hope you continue to make more homebrew bc I really like this one :)
Yep I'm seeing that too, there is effectively a missing table due to the broken formatting:
Casting Table 1 (Full Random, part 2)
thanks for the heads up! I thought I fixed that before upload, but I guess not. I’ll get that fixed soon.