"Intuitive" Sorcerer

[Weylin]

Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere...

If you were doing an intuitive sorcerer, someone for whom the talent for magic just comes naturally without any of the connections that are detailed in the various bloodlines would you:

1) use the Arcane Bloodline and just alter the flavor text.

or

2) write-up a new 'bloodline'

[Sean FitzSimon]

Actually, that's just how I read the arcane bloodline to be. It just happened.

[Dennis da Ogre]

Weylin wrote:

Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere...

If you were doing an intuitive sorcerer, someone for whom the talent for magic just comes naturally without any of the connections that are detailed in the various bloodlines would you:

1) use the Arcane Bloodline and just alter the flavor text.

or

2) write-up a new 'bloodline'

You could use pretty much any of the bloodlines but Arcane or Destined are probably the best for that. You could certainly write up your own bloodline as well.

[Weylin]

That was what I thought, but wanted some other opinions.

Note, the flavor text for Arcane Bloodline goes on about long line of wizards in your family, but easy enough to change flavor and keep mechanic.

[Dennis da Ogre]

Weylin wrote:

That was what I thought, but wanted some other opinions.

Note, the flavor text for Arcane Bloodline goes on about long line of wizards in your family, but easy enough to change flavor and keep mechanic.

I pretty much grab the flavor text I like and ignore the rest. I'm not a big fan of the word "Bloodline" for one but don't see it as a problem.

[LazarX]

Weylin wrote:

Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere...

If you were doing an intuitive sorcerer, someone for whom the talent for magic just comes naturally without any of the connections that are detailed in the various bloodlines would you:

1) use the Arcane Bloodline and just alter the flavor text.

or

2) write-up a new 'bloodline'

Actually any of the Bloodlines work that way. After all it's no "complication" for the character she's just that way and that's how her powers develop if she pursues them. The only "complications" are all in backstory and lineage, quite conceivably generations back. i.e. an arcane or destined bloodline could only be now coming to the surface in th e "seventh daughter of a seventh daughter" sort of deal. But in all cases the practise of sorcery is by nature, intuitive as opposed to instructive.

[DigitalMage]

I would go with reflavouring. My fighter just took a level of sorcerer with the elemental bloodline explained as bei possessed by an ancient elemental.