I’m scooping idea #2 for my campaign.

@Noumenon – thanks for the additional hooks. #56 is intriguing – I might use that in my new campaign too.

The colorblind who sees one kind of color is an interesting idea. Maybe not for a sorcerer but a more quest-based character. A ranger who sees animals in color and follows them to light up his black-and-white world. A barbarian who literally sees red.

I stole these two ideas from somewhere else, hopefully not this site:

55. A sorcerer who has to hold back his magic at all times; if he slips, he casts.

56. Sorcerer is a failed clone of a more successful sorcerer.

Here’s another non-original one:

57. Sorcerer gets his power from a draconic spirit that lives within him and is trying to possess him.

(That would be Naruto.)

And one that’s all me:

58. The sorcerer’s magic looks spontaneous, but it’s really a talent honed through long, arduous hours of practice. Every night he summons monster after monster for sparring opponents.

(1) A lone shark isn’t very scary because the party can gang up on it, and to escape it, all you have to do is stay away from water. A balanced encounter of several sahaugin is better, but even they need to go back into the water… maybe a lone bulette? That’s scary! Still has the ganging-up problem. Maybe a lone bulette and a lone shark working together… but then are they still lone?

(2)… or if you want a *loan* shark, a sahaugin loan shark. Who wears an enchanted necklace that lets him breathe on land, and carries a trident and a wicked-sharp diving knife, and wears clothes made of dolphin-leather, dyed brown in the blood of his victims.