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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6272083" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Here's what I think they're doing. Pretend I'm a WotC employee (I'm not):"The most important thing to us is that we cover all of the expected bases in our subclasses. Sometimes that means that certain classes will have more subclasses than others. We plan to reserve campaign specific or otherwise corner case subclasses for supplements, but we want to make sure that you don't need anything other than PHB to feel like your traditional D&D concept is supported."So I expect we are going to have 8 wizard schools, and hopefully about that many cleric domains. The last playtest listed 5 domains (only statted 3), which just isn't enough to cover it. They need things like darkness, death, or trickery. Otherwise you can't represent a lot of well-known deities. As far as the other classes, I expect we will see as many as they feel they need. For instance, I believe they were initially thinking of having multiple fighter subclasses based on combat maneuvers, but at some point realized that if they had good maneuvers and choices of which you had available, they only needed one subclass for it.Also, I'm pretty sure we can expect more subclasses for the core 4 than the others, because the other classes are pretty niche already. Druid hits both of the main concepts in its current 2 subclasses, and if they put in one more for a spirit shaman sort, there isn't a whole lot that doesn't cover. My main concern is with the cleric domains, because I'm not sure they're going to come through on that end. They might decide that Death and Darkness are evil and shouldn't be in the PHB (as well as a paladin blackguard subclass). As long as they stick them in the DMG I'm more than happy. Just let me represent my world.So I'm hopeful and optimistic about how the subclass coverage will turn out. But if my hopes are dashed I'll be very, very, unhappy.</blockquote>

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