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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 4004931" data-attributes="member: 1288">All right, with the understanding that I'm not actually saying officially if sorcerers made it into the 1st PHB or not...If they didn't, they would not be nearly as much of a priority for the Necromancer book as the other classes, for a couple of reasons.1) Sorcerers, unlike everything else, have no 1E analog, or even 2E. They're purely a 3E creation.2) Sorcerers were created specifically to allow a second class to make use of the wizard spell list, and to provide a spontaneous arcane caster for those who wanted it. These are no longer necessary or even viable requirements in 4E, given the change to at-will, encounter, and daily powers.So if we were to do a sorcerer, it would neither resemble anything from past editions, nor would it resemble the 3E sorcerer. It would be something completely brand new, that simply happened to bear the name "sorcerer." People who want to convert to 4E are better off just switching to wizards, since that would be a closer conceptual match than anything I came up with.I'm not saying I couldn't create a decent sorcerer class. But as I said, it'd be something brand new; despite the name, it wouldn't really be an old-edition update. And I just couldn't make that jive with the mission statement of the APG. So when I realized I was going to potentially run into deadline issues, the sorcerer was an easy choice to discard.</blockquote>