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Tagged with sorcerer spell-components
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Can the "dragon-like scales" from the Draconic Bloodline sorcerer's Draconic Resilience feature be used as the M component for Aganazzar's Scorcher?
The Draconic Bloodline sorcerer's Draconic Resilience feature states, in part:
Additionally, parts of your skin are covered by a thin sheen of dragon-like scales. [...]
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Would the Subtle Spell metamagic or the Aberrant Mind sorcerer's Psionic Sorcery feature let you cast spells while using a shield without proficiency?
The PHB's rule on armor proficiency states that you cannot cast a spell while wearing/using armor you are not proficient with.
The Metamagic option Subtle Spell lets you cast a spell without having to ...
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Can an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer cast Scrying using sorcery points without a 1000 gp focus?
Scrying has an M requirement of
a focus worth at least 1,000 gp, such as a crystal ball, a silver
mirror, or a font filled with holy water.
While not explicit, this focus is presumably used to ...
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How do spell components work in regards to the UA Psionic Soul Sorcerer's Psychic Sorcery ability?
The UA Psionic Soul Sorcerer has the following Psionic Talent option:
Psychic Sorcery. When you cast a spell, you can use your mind to form it, rather than relying on words, gestures, and materials. ...
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If a sorcerer rolls on the Wild Magic Surge table and gets a result that says they cast a certain spell, does it require the usual components?
Several effects from the Wild Magic sorcerer's Wild Magic Surge table (PHB, p. 104) tell you, the sorcerer, to cast a spell as the result, for example:
You cast fireball as a 3rd-level spell ...
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If you use the Still Spell metamagic feat to cast the Fireball spell, do you still have to aim with your finger?
The description for Fireball says
You point your finger and determine the range (distance and height) at which the fireball is to burst. A glowing, pea-sized bead streaks from the pointing digit
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If you cast Darkness using sorcery points as a Shadow Magic sorcerer, do you need material components?
Shadow Magic sorcerers at 3rd level gain the spell Darkness, which doesn't count against their spells known. In addition, they can cast it by expending 2 sorcery points.
Can you circumvent the need ...
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Does the sorcerer's Subtle Spell Metamagic option allow you to ignore both Verbal and Somatic components?
This may sound like a basic question, but I'd like to be 100% sure.
In D&D 5e, Subtle Spell's description in the sorcerer class description says
When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery ...
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What's the in-universe reasoning behind sorcerers needing material components?
Sorcerers are "spontaneous" spell casters. They don't "learn spells" the way a wizard does; their spells aren't granted by a powerful extraplanar entity the way a cleric's, paladin's, or warlock's ...
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Would this custom Sorcerer variant that can only learn any verbal-component-only spell be unbalanced?
I recently started reading through the Shannara books by Terry Brooks, and it got me thinking about how the notion of the wishsong would translate into a system like D&D.
My (very) rough idea ...
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