Sorcerous Abilitiies

As mentioned in a previous post, I have been thinking about including sorcerers in my D&D game. The sorcerer gets magic as an innate ability because one of their ancestors was an elf. In Classic D&D there are no half-elves; a child born to a human and an elf parent appear as either an elf or a human with all the accompanying traits. So a human could have some elven blood, but show no outward signs of it. This hidden elven blood will manifest itself as sorcery from time to time.

Any human with elven ancestry may be a sorcerer is if 2d6 are rolled and the resulting sum is a 12. The character may be of any of the normal human classes, fighter, thief, or cleric. If the character is a Magic-User their sorcerous ability is suppressed and they may only use wizardly magic. The Magic of a sorcerer works exactly like that of an elf of equal level. In short, Sorcerers do not need to decide which spells to memorize each day. They have a limited number of spells which are known equal to the number and level of spells they can cast in a day +1 for each intelligence adjustment. An sorcerer may attempt to cast those extra spells known after exhausting their normal repertoire of spells. To do this the sorcerer must first make a saving throw vs spells, and if successful the sorcerer
successfully casts the spell, if not the spell fizzled out, or caused a bizarre and benign effect. In either case the casting of these extra spells costs the sorcerer a number of hp equal to a d6. If a sorcerer were to reach 0hp in this manner they would take the effect of a wound including the chance for death. Sorcerers also have access to the druid spell list. Sorcerers learn their spells by meditating in a natural environment for one week equal to the spell level, at the end of the meditation the spell learned is determined randomly.

XP charts for sorcerers of each class:

Cleric			Fighter			Fighter
Lvl	XP Required		Lvl	XP Required		Lvl	XP Required
1	0		1	0		1	0
2	2,500		2	3,000		2	2,200
3	5,000		3	6,000		3	4,400
4	10,000		4	12,000		4	8,800
5	20,000		5	24,000		5	17,600
6	40,000		6	50,000		6	35,000
7	80,000		7	100,000		7	70,000
8	160,000		8	200,000		8	140,000
9	320,000		9	400,000		9	280,000
10	420,000		10	520,000		10	400,000
11	520,000		11	640,000		11	520,000
12	620,000		12	760,000		12	640,000
13	720,000		13	880,000		13	760,000
14	820,000		14	1,000,000		14	880,000
15	920,000		15	1,120,000		15	1,000,000
16	1,020,000		16	1,240,000		16	1,120,000
17	1,120,000		17	1,360,000		17	1,240,000
18	1,220,000		18	1,480,000		18	1,360,000
19	1,320,000		19	1,600,000		19	1,480,000
20	1,420,000		20	1,720,000		20	1,600,000
21	1,520,000		21	1,840,000		21	1,720,000
22	1,620,000		22	1,960,000		22	1,840,000
23	1,720,000		23	2,080,000		23	1,960,000
24	1,820,000		24	2,200,000		24	2,080,000
25	1,920,000		25	2,320,000		25	2,200,000
26	2,020,000		26	2,440,000		26	2,320,000
27	2,120,000		27	2,560,000		27	2,440,000
28	2,220,000		28	2,680,000		28	2,560,000
29	2,320,000		29	2,800,000		29	2,680,000
30	2,420,000		30	2,920,000		30	2,800,000
31	2,520,000		31	3,040,000		31	2,920,000
32	2,620,000		32	3,160,000		32	3,040,000
33	2,720,000		33	3,280,000		33	3,160,000
34	2,820,000		34	3,400,000		34	3,280,000
35	2,920,000		35	3,520,000		35	3,400,000
36	3,020,000		36	3,640,000		36	3,520,000