```metadata
title: Sorcerer | Electric Heart
description: >-
My take on a lightning- & thunder focused Sorcerer subclass for Dungeons &
Dragons 5th Edition!
tags:
- sorcerer
- lightning
- thunder
- subclass
systems:
- 5e
renderer: V3
theme: 5ePHB
```
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# {{color:#201b43 Sorcerous Origin: Electric Heart}}
Electricity courses through your veins, granting you the power to control and manifest lightning; a gift bestowed upon you perhaps through an inherited affinity with the Elemental Plane of Air, a pact made with a Storm Giant, or your presence in a cataclysmic thunderstorm. In the end, it is up to you how you acquired your powers. If you need inspiration, confer with the Electric Origins table for examples of how you acquired your magic.
##### Electric Origins
| D6 | Origin|
|:----:|:-----|
| 1 | Ages ago, a distant ancestor made a pact with a Storm Giant. The magic granted by this pact laid dormant in your bloodline, until a cataclysmic storm awakened the lightning deep within you. |
| 2 | Lost and abandoned for years on the Elemental Plane of Air, you were touched by its raw magic, now carrying a small part of the Plane with you wherever you go. |
| 3 | Mere moments after your heart had stopped beating, a lightning bolt struck your chest, restarting your heart and turning your veins an electric blue for a second. You now hold the power of lightning itself, dependent on it to keep you alive. |
| 4 | A lightning bolt struck the nursery you resided in as a child, which consequentially burned down. You were the only child found residing within the rubble, your tiny palms crackling with electricity. |
| 5 | In their adventuring days, one of your parents was struck by the breath attack of a Blue Dragon, which they narrowly survived. Years later, you were born with a faint, blue-glowing skin. |
| 6 | As a child, you had climbed into the great oak tree on the outskirts of your village after your friends had dared you to. You were too afraid to climb back down as dark clouds rolled over the village and lightning struck the great tree, with you residing in its branches.|
### {{color:#201b43 Additional Spells }}
You learn one new cantrip. Additionally, when you reach new levels in this class, you learn new spells. These cantrips and spells do not count against your total spells known. When you reach a new spell level, choose one of the two options below. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
##### Electric Heart Spells
| Level | Option 1 | Option 2 |
|:-----------:|:------------------|:-----------------|
| 0 | *Shocking Grasp* | *Lightning Lure* |
| 1 | *Witch Bolt* | *Thunderwave* |
| 2 | *Shatter* | *Hold Person* |
| 3 | *Lightning Bolt* | *Thunderstep* |
| 4 | *Storm Sphere* | *Elemental Bane* |
| 5 | *Destructive Wave*| *Hold Monster* |
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Additionally, you may confer with the Manifestations of Magic table to gain inspiration for how your sorcerer manifests their magic.
##### Manifestations of Magic
| D6 | Manifestation|
|:----:|:-----|
| 1 | Your eyes glow an electric blue and sparks shoot out from the corners of your eyes. |
| 2 | Your veins glow with electricity pulsing towards your fingertips. |
| 3 | Your skin becomes a translucent navy blue, your skeletal structure visible. |
| 4 | Lightning crackles from your fingertips, zapping back and forth between your hands. |
| 5 | Your extremities glow a bright electric blue, the blood in your veins pulsing with white light matching the beat of your heart.
| 6 | Your heart emanates a bright, white light, every beat sending jolts of light through your body. |
:
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##### Magical Quirks
How does your magic affect your daily life? Think about the downsides, however small they may be. Perhaps the electricity coursing through your body causes you to have permanently frizzled hair, always standing upright no matter what you try. Or perhaps every time you touch an object made of metal you receive a static shock.
}}
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### {{color:#201b43 Sparkjump}}
*1st-level Electric Heart feature*
You gain the ability to transport yourself to safety by harnessing the energy of an incoming attack. When you are hit by an attack, you teleport to a space you can see within 30 ft. Enemies within 5 ft. of your location prior to teleporting take lightning damage equal to your Sorcerer level.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses after finishing a long rest.
### {{color:#201b43 Electromagnetism}}
*1st-level Electric Heart feature*
You learn to harness the electromagnetic field generated by your electricity to manipulate metallic objects in your vicinity. As an action, you can pull any metallic objects of 20 pounds or lighter in a 15 ft. radius towards you, or push them up to 15 ft. away from you. If the item is worn by or secured to a creature, you cannot manipulate it this way. You also gain proficiency in the Sleight of Hand skill.
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### {{color:#201b43 Amplifier}}
*6th-level Electric Heart feature*
Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a spell of 1st level or higher that deals lightning or thunder damage, you may choose to target an additional number of creatures equal to your proficiency modifier within 5 ft. of the original target.
These creatures need to make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or suffer half the damage dealt to the initial target, rounded up. On a succesful save, the creature takes no damage. A creature that has already taken damage from the initial spell cannot be targeted by this feature.
### {{color:#201b43 Fusebreak}}
*14th-level Electric Heart feature*
Your mastery of lightning lets you ignore the defenses ofyour foes. When you deal lightning or thunder damage, you may ignore your target’s resistance to this damage type if they posess it. If the target has immunity, you deal damage as if they had resistance instead.
### {{color:#201b43 Electric Form}}
*18th-level Electric Heart feature*
As an action, your form becomes one of pure electricity, lasting for one minute or until you are knocked unconscious. While this feature is active, you are granted the following benefits:
* You gain a flying speed equal to your movement speed, and you can hover.
* You gain immunity to lightning and thunder damage, as well as nonmagical slashing, piercing and bludgeoning damage.
* While this feature is active, you may use the *Spare the Dying* cantrip.
Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again until you have finished a long rest, unless you use 7 sorcery points to use it again.
## Credits
**Art:** Electric Heart Sorcerer by
[Maarten Pelders](https://maartenpelders.com/)
**Template:** [Curse of Strahd Template](https://www.reddit.com/r/homebrewery/comments/wisgkr/curse_of_strahd_styletemplate_for_the_homebrewery/) by
[u/Kaiburr_Kath-Hound](https://www.reddit.com/user/Kaiburr_Kath-Hound/)
**Homebrewing Tool:** [The Homebrewery](https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/)
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