- So this sorcerer, the
Clockwork Soul is a sorcerer
whose magic comes from
the plane of Mechanus,
or if in your D&D campaign,
you don't use the Great Wheel cosmology,
some other place of primal order.
And this clockwork energy
suffuses the sorcerer,
and gives them the ability to impose order
or restore order, in
the world around them.
They have some extra
spells available to them,
that focus on protection, or
sort of making things right.
But then they have this really
interesting starting feature
that does something we've not yet done,
in one of our sub-classes.
And that is, this feature that allows you
to look at a roll that has advantage,
or disadvantage, and say, "Uh-uh."
This ability allows the
sorcerer to make a roll
essentially immune to both
advantage, and disadvantage.
The key here though, is
you don't get to pick.
You don't get to, let's say the roll
has one effect giving it disadvantage,
and another effect giving it advantage.
The sorcerer can't decide,
"Oh, I'm just going to
shut off the disadvantage,
"and leave you with advantage."
No, because the whole idea
is you're restoring something
to its sort of baseline state.
You make it so that
disadvantage and advantage
can't affect the roll at all.
So this has the ability to,
not only strip advantage off
a foe's roll against you,
but also strip disadvantage
off rolls you're making.
I imagine groups where
there might be both a
Clockwork Soul sorcerer,
and a rogue in it, will have to be careful
about not accidentally depriving the rogue
of their (chuckles) ability
to use their sneak attack.
- [Man] Yes, Tim Davis and I
were talking about, you know,
if you have a really petty party,
the Clockwork Soul sorcerer
could keep on taking advantage
away from the rogue.
(laughing)
Just to be a jerk. (laughs)
- I don't think that party's
gonna last very long, yeah.
- [Man] No, that friendship's
not meant to last. (chuckles)
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I might be funny once.
- (laughs) Yeah,
yeah, just the one time.
- In a non-critical situation.
But yeah, so this sorcerer is, again,
all about setting things
back to their baseline state.
The sorcerer later gains the
ability to enter into a trance
where they make it so
that they can themselves
ignore disadvantage.
And that they can make it so
that many of their D20 rolls
will always be at least a 10.
If they roll a one through
nine on it, nope it's a 10.
It snaps to the average.
And their culminating feature,
the capstone, is my favorite
feature in this sub-class,
because it's all about
summoning, temporarily,
a group of Modrons to clean a mess up.
And that mess includes healing people
in the area where the Modrons appear.
It includes repairing any objects
you want to repair in that area.
And it also can include, if you so choose,
stripping magic off of creatures
and objects in that area.
Again, trying to get things
back to their baseline state.
So these Modrons appear, do some repairs
on both creatures and
objects, and then vanish.
And it's a very powerful ability,
and it of course is in a large
cube area, 'cause Modrons,
even though all sorts of shapes
are associated with them,
most of the time when we think of Modrons,
we think of a cube.
- [Man] Yeah, we do.
The circle one is very,
the sphere shaped one is
very cute though. (laughs)
- Yeah, yeah.
- With its little tiny wings.
Yeah, this is one that took
me a little while too on,
but yeah, if you're in a fight
with Vecna, and you just,
or all the negative effects,
and negative buffs that
are on us, are gone.
We can take 100 hit points,
and spread them amongst
everybody, and also anything
that had been destroyed
around us, is repaired.
Yeah, that's a nice reset.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it's
a nice second chance.
- Yes, yeah.
- It's a good boss battle type of fight.
There's a lot of great description too,
and this is what I like about
what you guys do with the sorcerers now.
You could have gears in someone's eyes,
where they have a brass texture.
- We have been more and more
pushing our sorcerers toward
having connections to
different planes of existence.
Leaning into this idea
that they have been shaped
in some way, by the special
qualities of different planes
in the multiverse.
And so here, we were exploring
what would it be like
for a sorcerer who got their innate magic
from this plane of supreme order.
