Play the most chaotically creative caster by looking at the most creative people.
Sorcerers are channelers of cosmic power, and that's rad. They don't need all that book-learning, they've just got that something special. Roleplaying that something special can be a little tricky, however, and figuring out how a sorcerer might behave has never been as obvious as some classes. Our pitch is that sorcerers that draw from the chaos of magic is shockingly similar to artists that draw from the chaos of creative inspiration. So, we read The Mind of the Artist: Personality and the Drive to Create by Dr. William Todd Schultz, and boil it down to what we can use to play our most fascinating sorcerers yet.
In Kinship Camp, we take a wide view of all the common personality traits of artists, then hone in on four that can work the best for our spell slingers. We talk about how these traits are exemplified by some real world artists we can use for inspiration, then generate some ideas for sorcerers based on them.
Then we go to Moradin's Forge to present a list of eight questions you can use to add a ton of flavor to your next, or current, relentlessly chaotic Sorcerer, with our our examples tossed in.
For reference, here's the questions:
How do they display an openness to opportunity or ideas?
How do they specifically display their disorganization?
What situation is ideal for your sorcerer to cast spells?
What situation is absolutely the WORST?
How does your magic overflow when you’re not casting spells?
What is your sorcerer obsessed with? Color? Creature? Time of Day? Item?
What habit or ritual does your sorcerer strictly adhere to for maximum magic?
What magic or mystery do they believe about their spellcasting focus?