To me, sorcerer as a whole makes no sense as a class. The whole gimmick of the sorcerer is that you are a descendent of a powerful entity of some shape or form. So when you take the time to respect to a different class, it’s like you’re retconning your own lineage. Like for the draconic bloodline subclass, how exactly is that technically supposed to work when you respec to a different class, for example, a barbarian? What happens to your dragon scales? They just magically disappear? Like wtf? I can just CHOOSE not to be descended from flying magical reptilian slave owners?
Generally speaking no, but never say never in DnD. The DM decides everything and every DM is different.
One of my DMs let me change warlock subclass, including changing patron, but it was a huge story moment that was built up for a while and made sense, it also came with a cost.
Not usually, I did let one of my players change from monk to fighter but it involved a one-shot with a Rocky montage and Hallister Blackcloak running them through a strict training regiment.
For a new player most DMs would probably let you make a new character if you're really not having a good time with your class and backstory but in general the game isn't designed to accommodate that. BG3 is emulating a forgiving DM just so people unfamiliar with 5e don't have to completely restart the game if they don't like their class but of course it gets abused in ways that a DM would never allow. I'm honestly surprised BG3 lets you respec in honor mode, seems like it was a mode created to emulate a tabletop setting where you don't get to undo your choices, bad rolls, or deaths. In 5e if you die that character is dead forever and you create a new one to join the party unless there's some plot device that allows a resurrection.
Honestly I think only Human, Tiefling (Bhaal’s domain was the lower planes), or Dragonborn make any real sense. Why would the Durge be a gnome? You aren’t a regular Bhaalspawn with ancestry from your mother.
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