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At a Glance
The Combat Loop
- Pre-combat: Subtle Spell → Dragon's Breath on the Raven. No components, no initiative trigger.
- Round 1: Bonus → Innate Sorcery. Action → Chromatic Orb upcast (3rd+) with Empowered Spell.
- Rounds 2–4: Bonus → Quickened Chromatic Orb. Action → Sorcerous Burst (or Dragon's Breath).
- Reactions: Shield · Silvery Barbs · Absorb Elements · Counterspell · Bend Luck.
Damage Type Default — Acid
Elemental Adept turns 1s into 2s on acid damage and ignores acid resistance. All three damage spells (Chromatic Orb, Sorcerous Burst, Dragon's Breath) default to acid to maximize bounce probability.
Switch off acid only vs. acid-immune foes (black dragons, oozes) — pivot to lightning or cold.
Standard Combat Rotation
Pre-combat (if possible)
No V/S, no initiative trigger. Costs 1 sorcery point + 2nd-level slot.
Round 1
Rounds 2–4
Reactions Cheat Sheet
When you're hit
- Shield (1st): +5 AC until your next turn — retroactive.
- Absorb Elements (1st): Resistance to triggering elemental damage + 1d6 next melee hit.
- Mirror Image (already up): attackers may roll a duplicate.
When an enemy rolls a die
- Silvery Barbs (1st): on enemy success → force reroll low, give an ally advantage.
- Bend Luck (1pt): ±1d4 on any d20 test you can see.
- Counterspell (3rd): auto on spells ≤3rd. Above that, ability check.
- Portent die: swap a creature's d20 with a recorded result. Declare before the roll.
Chromatic Orb Bounce Probability
| Slot | Dice | Bounce chance (acid + EA) | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 3d8 | ~34% | |
| 2nd | 4d8 | ~59% | |
| 3rd | 5d8 | ~80% | |
| 4th | 6d8 | ~92% | |
| 5th | 7d8 | ~96% | |
| 6th | 8d8 | ~100% |
Crit: doubles damage dice. A 2nd-level crit becomes 8d8 (~99.8% bounce). Elven Accuracy + Innate Sorcery means ~14% crit per attack.
Wild Magic Surge — d100
Roll for surge
Chromatic Orb — Live Simulator
Roll the orb. Same number on two or more dice → it bounces to a new target within 30 ft. Empowered Spell rerolls up to 4 dice to fish for matches. Elemental Adept makes every 1 count as a 2 on acid damage.
Damage Dice
Why this is a one-character damage strategy
Bounce mechanics
- Roll the spell's damage dice. Pick a damage type from the seven listed.
- If two or more dice show the same number, the spell jumps to a new target within 30 ft for the same damage.
- It can keep bouncing as long as new matches occur on each new roll.
- Elemental Adept (Acid): 1s become 2s — doubles the count of "2"s on the table → far more pairs.
Empowered Spell math
- After rolling, pick up to CHA mod (4) dice and reroll them.
- Best play: reroll the 4 dice that don't share a number. If a match appeared on the first roll, only reroll low non-matching dice for damage.
- Stacks with Quicken — Empower the action-cast and the bonus-cast separately.
- 1 sorcery point per cast. 8 points = up to ~8 casts of empowered orb per long rest.
Spellbook
Class Features
Sorcerer (Wild Magic)
Innate Sorcery
Font of Magic
Wild Magic Surge
Tides of Chaos
Sorcerous Restoration
Bend Luck
Sorcery Incarnate
Wizard (Divination)
Portent (Sorcery Incarnate equivalent)
Ritual Adept
Arcane Recovery
Scholar
Divination Savant
Metamagic — 2 Known
Empowered Spell · 1pt
Reroll up to CHA mod (4) damage dice. Must use new rolls. Stacks with other metamagic.
Use: fish for matching numbers on Chromatic Orb to trigger the bounce.
Quickened Spell · 2pt
Cast an Action-cast spell as a Bonus Action. Cannot cast another levelled spell on the same turn (cantrips OK).
Use: Quickened Chromatic Orb in the bonus, Sorcerous Burst cantrip in the action.
Two more metamagic slots open at Sorcerer 10. Strong candidates: Subtle (1pt) for pre-combat Dragon's Breath, Seeking (1pt) for Elven-Accuracy reroll fishing.
Feats
Musician — Origin
After short/long rest, play flute → grant Heroic Inspiration to up to 4 allies who can hear you. Save your own inspiration for bad surge rolls.
Elven Accuracy — Lvl 4
When you have advantage on a CHA attack, roll 3 dice instead of 2 and take the highest. Crit chance ~14%. Crit doubles dice → near-certain bounce.
Elemental Adept · Acid — Lvl 8
Treat 1s as 2s on acid damage rolls. Ignore acid resistance. CHA → 20 (+5).
Familiar — Raven
Cast Dragon's Breath on the Raven (ideally Subtle, pre-init). Each turn it exhales a 15 ft cone — 3d6 acid, DEX DC 17, half on save — from above, hitting clusters. If downed, resummon with Find Familiar (1 hr ritual, no slot).
Racial — High Elf
Spell Slots
Sorcery Points
Innate Sorcery
Tides of Chaos
Portent Dice
Heroic Inspiration (Musician)
Ring of Spell Storing
Concept
Sidran O'Thellas is an ancient High Elf who has lived long enough that the present has become the least real part of time for him. He experiences the future as something closer and more textured than the past, arriving at conversations already knowing roughly how they'll end, walking into rooms he's never been in but somehow knows the layout of. He spent centuries as a precise, methodical diviner. Then the wild magic manifested — and for the first time in an extraordinarily long life, something refused to be predicted.
He has come to treasure this. The wild magic is the only thing that still surprises him.
In daily life he is the Diviner: composed, courteous, slightly distant, operating on a timescale nobody else in the party understands. In combat he lets the door open and becomes something else entirely — gleeful, reckless, grinning in a way that doesn't quite match the face from five seconds ago. When it's over, the door closes, he straightens his robes, and asks if anyone needs healing.
Two Modes
The Diviner — default
Composed, ancient, precise. Speaks carefully. Finishes others' sentences in his head and deliberately doesn't. Occasionally sad about things that haven't happened yet. Watches the world with quiet, weary intelligence.
The Surge — combat
Door opens. Gleeful, reckless, loud. Makes choices the Diviner would consider suboptimal and doesn't care. Having the time of his very long life. Transitions back the moment combat ends, sometimes mid-sentence.
Roleplaying Notes
- Occasionally answers questions a beat before they are fully asked. Apologises for it. Tries to wait.
- Prepares for things before they happen — sets out an extra cup, steps away from something before it falls.
- Occasionally sad in ways that don't make sense to others — grieving things before they are lost.
- Genuinely, unusually curious about the party. They keep doing things he didn't predict. He finds this delightful and will never say so.
- Wild Magic Surges are moments when too much future presses in at once and spills over. He is not distressed. He finds them interesting data.
- The chromatic orb doesn't feel like throwing a spell. It feels like redirecting something that was already going to happen.
Background — Entertainer
By Popular Demand
Always finds a place to perform — inn, circus, court — and while there receives free lodging and food and gathers local news and gossip.
Skills & Tools
Acrobatics, Performance, Flute (musical instrument). Origin feat: Musician.