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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7080915" data-attributes="member: 996">I guess Paizo could be a figurative indentured servant or independent contractor or something to profit, rather than a slave?   That does sound a little weird.  But there might be a bit of truth behind it somewhere if you squint and dig about a bit.  WotC does have a core customer base that's very adamant both about what they want, and what they won't tolerate, so to keep making some profit off that market segment, they have to be cautious & measured in providing anything that customers outside that core might want.  WotC still hasn't published any financial numbers that I'm aware of, and has claimed success for everything they've ever published, while it was current.  But, profit doesn't come just from selling people stuff they're willing to buy because it's closer to what they want than the nearest viable alternative, but also from keeping the costs of producing that content as low as possible.  The slow pace of releases we're getting with 5e, and the frequent use of outsourcing, are the kinds of things that can help keep costs down.  In that sense, WotC has moved closer to the Paizo strategy, too, since they're a smaller company, presumably with lower overhead, and don't need to deliver to some strict RoI goal. I think drum-beating makes a better metaphor for the Warlord, because, y'know, armies marching &c.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Not to take away from Moonsong, who's feelings about the 5e Sorcerer are justified, IMHO, the sub-class's fluff are just too locked-in, it's list too arbitrarily limited.  Personally, I like the build-to-concept customizeability of the comparatively* elegant 3.x Sorcerer design, and would like to see either a lot more Sorcerer sub-classes, or one more 'generalist' catch-all sub-class that lets players impose more flavor of their own devising.(Cap'n Zapp's on his own, sorry.)* Compared to 3.x Tier 1 and 5e neo-Vancian casters, anyway.</blockquote>

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