There are some effects that pair better with this- for your consideration, here are some awesome spells that are majorly empowered by Careful Spell.

Making the most out of this effect can be tricky, as most spells ’ durations are more than long enough for what you typically ask them. There are a few exceptions, though- here, I’ll highlight some of my favorite spells to extend that become significantly better thanks to this metamagic.

If you want to maximize its potential, here are some abilities and spells you can look to get on your sheet, as well as general perks the option offers you.

Level three rolls around and you get an exciting opportunity as a sorcerer: the opportunity to get Metamagic. These let you customize and enhance your spells for a few of your sorcery points. Picking the right options for you can be tough; here, I’ll rank each in an attempt to help guide you toward picking the best options to bring your sorcerous fantasy to life.

The base Sorcerer is kinda boring, with Metamagic being the only standout feature to make up for our low number of spells known. With a smaller spell list, less spells known, and no ritual casting, Metamagic alone isn’t enough to justify playing a Sorcerer over a Wizard besides for multiclassing with classes like Warlock and Paladin.

If you want a full breakdown of everything sorcerer, this guide is for you. It covers every inch and option available to you across all twenty levels. I’d recommend checking out sections relevant to your experience first and foremost depending on your familiarity with the class and what it is you’re looking for. 

Wild Magic Sorcerer is by far the most disruptive option in the game, and I don’t think it's a great fit for every table. Some will adore it. Others will absolutely hate it. 

Storm Sorcery manages to be one of the few options in that book that really sticks the landing. It gives you dynamic and interesting new toys to enhance your spellcasting but doesn’t fix any of the larger issues the core sorcerer class has. 

Shadow Magic plays around with Darkness in a genuinely interesting fashion. It doesn’t address the lacking spell total sorcerers have to deal with that well, but does have a robust list of features I’m pretty excited to play with that deliver on the “shadow magic” aesthetic in a reasonably powerful way. 

Lunar Sorcery gives you tools to embody pulling your essence from the moon to fuel magical rituals. It ties into its phases and appearance, building on top of these ideas to give you a shifting and dynamic play pattern from session to session.

Draconic Bloodline fails more than Wild Magic does. It provides you with almost none of the tools you’d expect a draconic sorcerer to get until it’s far too late to get excited about them.

Divine Soul tends to play more like a cleric with metamagic than a sorcerer. It doesn’t completely solve the problem in limited spells known, which in this case I think is probably for the best. If you love the idea of two or three cleric spells specifically and want them to be the majority of your character, that’s what this option does well. 

I think Clockwork Soul doesn’t have enough Modron energy in it for me. It sells itself as an origin of cosmic order with perfect synchronization at its heart, like great gears turning in harmony, but doesn’t really provide tools that deliver some amount of construct or order-based magic to it.

Aberrant Mind is a spectacular Sorcerous Origin. It solves one of Sorcerer’s largest problems cleanly and flavorfully with excellent spells you’re often going to want on this kind of character anyway.