It was a copy paste, I probably should have given you credit, but I was too lazy.
D&D 5E Xanathar's Guide to Everything: What subclasses made the cut?
It was a copy paste, I probably should have given you credit, but I was too lazy.
PrimevalSeeker
Explorer
Glad they changed the name of deep stalker to gloom stalker, it was a too interesting archetype to make it have such a specific flavor, like the underdark.
You know the perfect Shadow Magic Sorceror race is Elf (Drow).
Bonus to Dex and Charisma, the ability to see through your own darkness means your sunlight sensitivity won't be an issue, because you just summon darkness, it's thematic as hell, plus all the advantanges of being an Drow Elf, and the Drow High Magic feat. Tell me that doesn't sound awesome.
Bonus to Dex and Charisma, the ability to see through your own darkness means your sunlight sensitivity won't be an issue, because you just summon darkness, it's thematic as hell, plus all the advantanges of being an Drow Elf, and the Drow High Magic feat. Tell me that doesn't sound awesome.
Li Shenron
Legend
I want to believe that WotC team is clever, but one thing that bothers me is the knowledge that when you have something (fairly) new and present it as a series of episodes for feedback, then the respondent tend to overreact positively to the first and become bored along the way.
So it's very possible that the feedback results were biased in favor of the Barbarian (which in fact got all 3 subclasses approved) just because everybody was excited by the idea of getting lots of new UA archetypes in weekly articles! By the time we got to the Sorcerer (only 1 of 4 approved, and that 1 was already seen and proved popular before) and Warlock+Wizard (1 of 3 approved), a lot of people were already bored and the average feedback might have been negatively biased. That was the 'streak' of UA articles on subclasses. Later we got an extra UA article with 2 new + 1 revised, and they all made it to XGE, but perhaps the 'gap' between the previous was enough to re-spark some interest.
Honestly part of it could simply be spill over from the Sorcerors relative lack of popularity.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
The only reason to reprint is for AL, since we can still use SCAG in home games. Probably wasn't very popular in organized play.
CapnZapp
Legend
No they're not treating the AL as nearly that important.
A much more plausible reason is that reprints doesn't cost development resources.
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Parmandur
Book-Friend
The PHB +1 rule is a fairly central element in their design of the AL, so reprinting the subclasses people actually use is reasonable.
There are many options available to them that do not cost development dollars or people-hours. Extra art could be a baseline: minimal investment for full-page colour spreads is a default against which other choices can be assessed.
Why is reprinting stuff from another book better than giving us new art? AL is a plausible explanation -- not one I am interested in, and so not one that motivates me, but I can see it motivating others.
I can think of other motivations, but they are too cynical to bother with. The truth is, we don't know.
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