Sorcerer Traits

Sorcerer Statistics

Hit Dice: d6
Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
Skills: Two out of Arcana, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, Religion
Armor: None
Weapons: Daggers, Darts, Slings, Quarterstaves, and Light Crossbows
Tools: None
ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores: Charisma
Subclasses (Heritages): 5

• PHB Heritages: Draconic, Wild
• SCAG Heritage: Storm Sorcerer (reprinted in Xanathar's)
• Xanathar Heritages: Divine Soul, Shadow Magic
  

Traits

Trait Selection
Metamagic at 3rd Level: 2
Metamagic at 20th Level: 4

Utility

• Font of Magic (2nd)
• Metamagic (3rd)
• Sorcerous Restoration (20th)

Heritage Traits

Draconic

• Communication
• Draconic Ancestor (1st) 
• Damage
• Elemental Affinity (6th) 
• Mind Control
• Draconic Presence (18th)
• Movement/Travel
• Dragon Wings (14th)
• Language
• Draconic Ancestor (1st)
• Survivability
• Draconic Resilience (1st)
• Elemental Affinity (6th)

Wild Magic

• Bizarre Silliness
• Wild Magic Surge (1st)
• Damage
• Spell Bombardment (18th)
• Defensive 
• Bend Luck (6th)
• Tides of Chaos (1st)
• Offensive
• Bend Luck (6th)
• Tides of Chaos (1st)
• Utility
• Bend Luck (6th) 
• Controlled Chaos (14th)
• Tides of Chaos (1st)

Storm Sorcery

• Damage
• Heart of the Storm (6th)
• Languages
• Wind Speaker (1st) 
• Movement/Travel
• Tempestuous Magic (1st) 
• Wind Soul (18th)
• Retributive
• Storm's Fury
• Survivability
• Heart of the Storm (6th) 
• Wind Soul (18th)
• Utility
• Storm Guide (6th)

Divine Soul

• Healing/Restorative
• Empowered Healing (6th) 
• Unearthly Recovery (18th)
• Movement/Travel
• Otherworldly Wings (14th)
• Offensive
• Favored by the Gods (1st)
• Divine Magic (1st)
• Divine Souls start with a bonus spell based on alignment.
• If playing without alignment base on patron deity or philosophy.
• Concentration
• Bane (1st)
• Bless (1st)
• Protection from Evil and Good (1st)
• Increased Effectiveness with Higher Level Slots
• Bane (1st)
• Bless (1st)
• Cure Wounds (1st)
• Inflict Wounds (1st)
• Buff
• Bless (1st)
• Damage
• Inflict Wounds (1st)
• Debuff
• Bane (1st) 
• Defensive
• Protection from Evil and Good (1st)
• Healing/Restorative
• Cure Wounds (1st)
• Survivability
• Favored by the Gods (1st) 
• Unearthly Recovery (18th)
• Utility
• Divine Magic (1st)

Shadow Magic

• Divination/Senses/Information Gathering
• Eyes of the Dark (1st)
• Movement/Travel
• Shadow Walk (14th)
• Umbral Form (18th)
• Spell - Shadow Sorcerers have a bonus 2nd Level spell at 3rd Level
•  Concentration
• Darkness (2nd) 
• Concealment/Deception/Illusions
• Darkness (2nd)
• Summoning
• Hound of Ill Omen (6th)
• Survivability
• Strength of the Grave (1st) 
• Umbral Form (18th)

Sorcerer Spells

Innate Caster
Full Caster
Spells Known at 20th: 15 (Divine Soul and Shadow Magic Sorcerers gain one additional spell)
Cantrips at 1st: 4
Cantrips at 20th: 6

Spells from Xanathar's Guide to Everything are bolded.

Divine Souls can also learn spells from the Cleric spell list.

Concentration  

• Absorb Elements (1st)
• Alter Self (2nd)
• Animate Objects (5th) 
• Arcane Gate (6th)
• Banishment (4th)
• Clairvoyance (3rd)
• Cloud of Daggers (2nd)
• Cloudkill (5th)
• Confusion (4th)
• Control Winds (5th)
• Create Bonfire (Cantrip)
• Crown of Madness (2nd)
• Dancing Lights (Cantrip)
• Darkness (2nd)
• Delayed Blast Fireball (7th)
• Detect Magic (1st)
• Detect Thoughts (2nd)
• Dominate Beast (4th)
• Dominate Monster (8th)
• Dominate Person (5th)
• Dragon's Breath (2nd)
• Dust Devil (2nd) 
• Earthquake (8th)
• Enemies Abound (3rd) 
• Enervation (5th)
• Enhance Ability (2nd)
• Enlarge/Reduce (2nd)
• Expeditious Retreat (1st)
• Eyebite (6th)
• Far Step (5th)
• Fear (3rd)
• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Fly (3rd)
• Gaseous Form (3rd)
• Gate (9th)
• Globe of Invulnerability (6th)
• Greater Invisibility (4th)
• Gust of Wind (2nd)
• Haste (3rd)
• Hold Monster (5th)
• Hold Person (2nd)
• Hypnotic Pattern (3rd)
• Immolation (5th)
• Incendiary Cloud (8th)
• Insect Plague (5th)
• Investiture of Flame (6th)
• Investiture of Ice (6th)
• Investiture of Stone (6th)
• Investiture of Wind (6th) 
• Invisibility (2nd)
• Levitate (2nd)
• Major Image (3rd) 
• Mass Polymorph (9th)
• Maximilian's Earthen Grasp (2nd)
• Melf's Minute Meteors (3rd)
• Mental Prison (6th)
• Mind Spike (2nd) 
• Move Earth (6th)
• Phantasmal Force (2nd)
• Polymorph (4th)
• Protection from Energy (3rd)
• Reverse Gravity (7th) 
• Shadow Blade (2nd)
• Sickening Radiance (4th) 
• Silent Image (1st)
• Skill Empowerment (5th)
• Sleet Storm (3rd)
• Slow (3rd)
• Spider Climb (2nd)
• Stinking Cloud (3rd)
• Stoneskin (4th)
• Storm Sphere (4th)
• Suggestion (2nd)
• Sunbeam (6th)
• Telekinesis (5th)
• True Strike (Cantrip)
• Wall of Fire (4th)
• Wall of Light (5th)
• Wall of Stone (5th)
• Warding Wind (2nd)
• Watery Sphere (4th) 
• Web (2nd)
• Witch Bolt (1st)  
• Whirlwind (7th)

Expensive Material Components 

(Spells marked with * means the components are consumed in casting)

• Chromatic Orb (1st) 
• Circle of Death (6th)
• Clairvoyance (3rd)
• Gate (9th)
• Plane Shift (7th)
• Stoneskin* (4th)
• Teleportation Circle* (5th)
• True Seeing* (6th)

Increased Effectiveness with Higher Level Slots

• Absorb Elements (1st)
• Agnazzar's Scorcher (2nd) 
• Banishment (4th) 
• Blight (4th)
• Blindness/Deafness (2nd)
• Blur (2nd)
• Burning Hands (1st)
• Catapult (1st)
• Catnap (3rd) 
• Chain Lightning (6th) 
• Chaos Bolt (1st)
• Charm Monster (4th) 
• Charm Person (1st)
• Chromatic Orb (1st)
• Circle of Death (6th)
• Cloud of Daggers (2nd)
• Cloudkill (5th)
• Color Spray (1st)
• Confusion (4th)
• Counterspell (3rd)
• Crown of Stars (7th)
• Dragon's Breath (2nd)
• Dust Devil (2nd)
• Earth Tremor (1st)
• Enhance Ability (2nd)
• Enervation (5th)
• Erupting Earth (3rd)
• False Life (1st)
• Fireball (3rd)
• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Fog Cloud (1st)
• Globe of Invulnerability (6th)
• Ice Knife (1st)
• Ice Storm (4th)
• Insect Plague (5th)
• Invisibility (2nd)
• Lightning Bolt (3rd)
• Magic Missile (1st)
• Major Image (3rd)
• Mass Suggestion (6th)
• Melf's Minute Meteors (3rd)
• Mind Spike (2nd)
• Ray of Sickness (1st)
• Scorching Ray (2nd)
• Shadow Blade (2nd)
• Shatter (2nd)
• Sleep (1st)
• Snilloc's Snowball Swarm (2nd)
• Thunder Step (3rd) 
• Thunderwave (1st)
• Vitriolic Sphere (4th)
• Wall of Fire (4th)
• Wall of Light (5th)
• Witch Bolt (1st)

Ritual

• Comprehend Languages (1st) 
• Detect Magic (1st)
• Water Breathing (3rd)
• Water Walk (3rd)

Area Denial

• Cloud of Daggers (2nd)
• Control Winds (5th)
• Create Bonfire (Cantrip)
• Dust Devil (2nd) 
• Erupting Earth (3rd) 
• Fog Cloud (1st)
• Gust of Wind (2nd)
• Ice Storm (4th)
• Incendiary Cloud (8th)
• Insect Plague (5th)
• Investiture of Ice (6th)
• Maxmilian's Earthen Grasp (2nd)
• Reverse Gravity (7th)
• Sickening Radiance (4th)
• Sleet Storm (3rd)
• Stinking Cloud (3rd)
• Storm Sphere (4th)
• Wall of Fire (4th)
• Wall of Stone (5th)
• Wall of Water (3rd)
• Warding Wind (2nd)
• Watery Sphere (4th) 
• Web (2nd) 
• Whirlwind (7th)

Buff 

• Enhance Ability (2nd) 
• False Life (1st)
• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Skill Empowerment (5th) 
• True Strike (Cantrip)

Communication

• Comprehend Languages (1st)
• Tongues (3rd)

Concealment/Deception/Illusions

• Alter Self (2nd)
• Disguise Self (1st)
• Dust Devil (2nd)
• Fog Cloud (1st)
• Greater Invisibility (4th)
• Invisibility (2nd)
• Major Image (3rd)
• Minor Illusion (Cantrip)
• Mirror Image (2nd)
• Pyrotechnics (2nd)
• Seeming (5th)
• Sleet Storm (3rd)
• Stinking Cloud (3rd)
• Web (2nd)

Control

• Booming Blade (Cantrip)
• Color Spray (1st) 
• Control Winds (5th)
• Earthbind (2nd)
• Earth Tremor (1st)
• Eyebite (6th)
• Gust of Wind (2nd)
• Hold Monster (5th)
• Hold Person (2nd)
• Investiture of Stone (6th)
• Investiture of Wind (6th)
• Maxmilian's Earthen Grasp (2nd)
• Mental Prison (6th) 
• Power Word Stun (8th)
• Prismatic Spray (7th)
• Psychic Scream (9th)
• Reverse Gravity (7th)
• Scatter (6th)
• Sleep (1st)
• Sleet Storm (3rd)
• Stinking Cloud (3rd)
• Telekinesis (5th)
• Thunderwave (1st)
• Tidal Wave (3rd)
• Watery Sphere (4th) 
• Whirlwind (7th) 

Curses

• Blindness/Deafness (2nd) 

Damage 

• Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting (8th)
• Absorb Elements (1st)
• Agnazzar's Scorcher (2nd) 
• Acid Splash (Cantrip)
• Blight (4th) 
• Booming Blade (Cantrip)
• Burning Hands (1st)
• Catapult (1st)
• Chain Lightning (6th)
• Chaos Bolt (1st)
• Chill Touch (Cantrip)
• Chromatic Orb (1st)
• Circle of Death (6th)
• Cloud of Daggers (2nd)
• Cloudkill (5th)
• Create Bonfire (Cantrip)
• Crown of Stars (7th) 
• Delayed Blast Fireball (7th)
• Disintegrate (6th)
• Dragon's Breath (2nd)
• Dust Devil (2nd)
• Earth Tremor (1st)
• Enervation (5th)
• Erupting Earth (3rd) 
• Finger of Death (7th)
• Fire Bolt (Cantrip)
• Fire Storm (7th)
• Fireball (3rd)
• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Frostbite (Cantrip)
• Ice Knife (1st) 
• Ice Storm (4th)
• Immolation (5th)
• Incendiary Cloud (8th)
• Infestation (Cantrip)
• Insect Plague (5th)
• Investiture of Flame (6th)
• Investiture of Ice (6th)
• Investiture of Wind (6th) 
• Lightning Bolt (3rd)
• Magic Missile (1st)
• Maxmilian's Earthen Grasp (2nd)
• Melf's Minute Meteors (3rd) 
• Mental Prison (6th) 
• Meteor Swarm (9th)
• Mind Spike (2nd)
• Phantasmal Force (2nd)
• Poison Spray (Cantrip)
• Power Word Kill (9th)
• Prismatic Spray (7th)
• Psychic Scream (9th)
• Ray of Frost (Cantrip)
• Ray of Sickness (1st)
• Scorching Ray (2nd)
• Shatter (2nd)
• Shadow Blade (2nd)
• Shocking Grasp (Cantrip)
• Sickening Radiance (4th)
• Snilloc's Snowball Swarm (2nd)
• Storm Sphere (4th) 
• Sunbeam (6th)
• Sunburst (8th)
• Synaptic Static (5th)
• Thunderclap (Cantrip)
• Thunder Step (3rd) 
• Thunderwave (1st)
• Tidal Wave (3rd)
• Vitriolic Sphere (4th) 
• Wall of Fire (4th)
• Wall of Light (5th)
• Web (2nd) 
• Whirlwind (7th)
• Witch Bolt (1st)

Death/Destruction

• Earthquake (8th) 
• Power Word Kill (9th) 

Debuff 

• Blindness/Deafness (2nd) 
• Chill Touch (Cantrip)
• Eyebite (6th)
• Frostbite (Cantrip)
• Mirror Image (2nd)
• Investiture of Ice (6th)
• Power Word Pain (7th)
• Pyrotechnics (2nd)
• Ray of Frost (Cantrip)
• Ray of Sickness (1st)
• Shocking Grasp (Cantrip)
• Sickening Radiance (4th)
• Slow (3rd)
• Synaptic Static (5th)
• Wall of Light (5th) 

Defensive

• Blade Ward (Cantrip) 
• Blink (3rd)
• Blur (2nd)
• Control Winds (5th)
• Counterspell (3rd)
• Dispel Magic (3rd)
• Etherealness (7th)
• False Life (1st)
• Feather Fall (1st)
• Gaseous Form (3rd)
• Globe of Invulnerability (6th)
• Haste (3rd)
• Investiture of Flame (6th)
• Investiture of Ice (6th)
• Investiture of Stone (6th)
• Investiture of Wind (6th) 
• Mage Armor (1st)
• Protection from Energy (3rd)
• Shield (1st)
• Stoneskin (4th)
• Wall of Water (3rd)
• Warding Wind (2nd)

Divination/Senses/Information Gathering

• Clairvoyance (3rd) 
• Comprehend Languages (1st)
• Darkvision (2nd)
• Detect Magic (1st)
• Detect Thoughts (2nd)
• Mind Spike (2nd)
• See Invisibility (2nd)
• Tongues (3rd)
• True Seeing (6th)

Healing/Restorative

• Catnap (3rd)
• Enervation (5th) 

Mind Control

• Charm Monster (4th)
• Charm Person (1st) 
• Confusion (4th)
• Crown of Madness (2nd)
• Dominate Beast (4th)
• Dominate Monster (8th)
• Dominate Person (5th)
• Enemies Abound (3rd)
• Eyebite (6th)
• Fear (3rd)
• Friends (Cantrip)
• Hypnotic Pattern (3rd)
• Mental Prison (6th)
• Suggestion (2nd)

Movement/Travel

• Arcane Gate (6th) 
• Blink (3rd)
• Control Winds (5th)
• Dimension Door (4th)
• Etherealness (7th)
• Expeditious Retreat (1st)
• Far Step (5th)
• Feather Fall (1st)
• Fly (3rd)
• Gaseous Form (3rd)
• Gate (9th)
• Haste (3rd)
• Investiture of Ice (6th)
• Investiture of Stone (6th)
• Investiture of Wind (6th) 
• Jump (1st)
• Levitate (2nd)
• Misty Step (2nd)
• Plane Shift (7th)
• Scatter (6th)
• Spider Climb (2nd)
• Teleport (7th)
• Teleportation Circle (5th)
• Thunder Step (3rd)
• Water Breathing (3rd)
• Water Walk (3rd)

Offensive 

• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Haste (3rd) 
• True Strike (Cantrip)
• Wall of Light (5th)

Planar

• Gate (9th) 
• Plane Shift (7th)

Summoning

• Animate Objects (5th) 
• Finger of Death (7th)
• Gate (9th)

Transformative

• Alter Self (2nd) 
• Polymorph (4th)
• Mass Polymorph (9th)

Utility

• Animate Objects (5th) 
• Catapult (1st) 
• Catnap (3rd)
• Control Flames (Cantrip)
• Create Bonfire (Cantrip) 
• Creation (5th)
• Crown of Stars (7th)
• Dancing Lights (Cantrip)
• Daylight (3rd)
• Dispel Magic (3rd)
• Enhance Ability (2nd)
• Feather Fall (1st)
• Gust (Cantrip)
• Knock (2nd)
• Light (Cantrip)
• Mage Hand (Cantrip)
• Mending (Cantrip)
• Message (Cantrip)
• Mold Earth (Cantrip)
• Move Earth (6th)
• Prestidigitation (Cantrip)
• Reverse Gravity (7th)
• Shape Earth (Cantrip)
• Telekinesis (5th)
• Tidal Wave (3rd)
• Time Stop (9th)
• Water Breathing (3rd)
• Water Walk (3rd)

Wish

• Wish (9th)