The Sorcerer's Handbook: A Guide to Building and Playing Sorcerers

[Aspenor]

I really think that you lessen the value of this thread by not discussing enough choices and their relative merits/downsides at each level. I admit that I've played a wizard only, but some of your choices seem really questionable:

-Resist Energy is basically just as effective off of a wand, and Scorching Ray is much better than Niac's since it doesn't allow for a save (let alone a save for 0), and improves dramatically 3 levels after you take it. Oh, and it doesn't eat up SP/time by getting Heigtened.
-Solid Fog +Firewall is better than PK in most situations. And the toughest situations for most casters are against mobs of enemies, where individual-target spells are too inefficient.
-Acid Fog is better than Hold Monster in the majority of situations and combos with your other spells, like Web and Firewall
-Dancing Ball is very effective and is a strong contender for the Waves slot

You also don't do much separation of build types in selection of spells and feats. A charmer would probably want Suggestion some time early in the game. A CC'er would probably want Glitterdust as well.

Stoneskin is also basically just as good off of a wand, while Fire Shield is a fairly useful spell to have.

Thanks for the feedback. I have not yet gotten around to breaking down different types of sorcs, like enchanters, evokers, instant-kills, etc.

I can agree that conjurations are, in the end-game, extremely useful. However, remember that the spells are taken in a way that they will be useful at the level taken, not necessarily for the end-game spells list.

I'm doing this in my free time. I have to balance work, housework, a girlfriend, and a PnP group for which I'm both a player, and writing my own campaign with all WotC sources available to my players.

All you guys should feel free to do a write-up of any topic you'd like to cover. You can either PM me the text, or you can write it up in a separate post and I'd love to link to it. I'm not here to say nobody else knows what they're talking about. I just want a thread where new sorcerers can find all the info they need.

I am more than happy to give credit to people that contribute to the thread. Or, if you can find a thread in the sorcerer forums that should probably get a link on this thread, PM me the link and it will happen.