Sorcerous Origin: Flame

[Tony Vargas]

The problem was they went so over the top with it, showed us only one subclass, and then wizard players started to demand the toys be given to them.

Wow. Unprecedented.
:|

Not long after that Mearls & Co decided to merge all classes under the Mage and things went wrong. All the time I kept telling people this was bad news and that the sorcerer wouldn't be satisfactory, but like with Cassandra they didn't listen

I don't remember all classes merged under 'Mage,' maybe no one played one that season, or mabye it was one of the seasons I couldn't get enough players to run Next at all... OK, no, maybe I vaguely remember it. Never got to see anyone use a Sorcerer, either. It was introduced mid-season and gone before the new one started.

 

[Bupp]

If this is official, my only major response is "yet another sorcerous origin that hands out free spells known?" I'm getting kinda annoyed by it. It's not like the default Sorcerer origins were particularly powerful...and all these variants with a bunch of extra spells (a ~50% increase in spells known at most levels) keep making the basic PHB ones seem weaksauce in comparison.

Actually I think they are a bit weaksauce, and the bonus spells are a way to make up for it.