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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8688317" data-attributes="member: 10148">Thanks, that helped me narrow it down: Dragon Talk #164, "Wolfgang Baur and Meagan Maricle", 20 December 2017, starting around 22m 13s:Jeremy Crawford: So, here's an example of something in the playtest process - and again, there weren't very many of these - but there were a few that scored really high... um... but it just wasn't their time yet. And so one of those was the Stone Sorcerer. A lot of people liked it - we really liked it - uh, but... there was some more we wanted to do - uh, not just with the Stone Sorcerer but also with the Phoenix Sorcerer and the sort of some elemental things going on there, and wanting, uh, you know, to sort of approach them in a more holistic way. We were already full up on the sorcerer being super well liked, cause that - so it's basically, with the sorcerer, we had a high-class problem. Uh, we had more satisfaction for the subclasses than we expected, so we had basically more subclasses available than we had, uh, room we were planning, and- and also time on, uh, devoting to the sorcerer. Because that's something that's often invisible to people who, uh, buy our books and play our game, is every rule is - for us - has a cost of time. Uh, because getting it right, testing it, reading the feedback, uh, those are hours, if not days, if - in some cases - if not weeks, if not months of work, and... So we always are having to do the calculus of - essentially - do we have the time - this resource - do we have enough of it to do this thing right. And if we don't right now, we're gonna - we'll, we'll save it. Um, uh, 'cause it turns out there will be more D&D books, and some of these things can come later.Crawford later notes how material can be delayed to more appropriate books where it fits better. That said, we're over four years on from this interview, and they haven't found a place to put them, so I wonder what happened? Maybe the Wildfire Druid or Genie Warlock from Tasha's are meant to be successors, but they're pretty different...(Incidentally, someone would really do amateur D&D historians a service by making full transcripts of those Dragon Talks... lot of additional design info in there I left out. One tidbit was that the War Wizard got in the book mainly because all the other UA wizard subclasses had scored worse - and even it only squeaked by on the minimum 70% satisfaction rate.)</blockquote>

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