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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8346204" data-attributes="member: 6790260">That, unfortunately, seems to be one of the big problems of their current approach to collecting data. It's a "one strike, you're out" rule. If something strikes out, unless they're REALLY REALLY committed to that specific thing, it's gone, poof. See, for instance, the Sorcerer and Warlock from the Next playtest. Those were incredibly cool ideas with way more flavor and layers to them, and as soon as they got one overall bad report, flushed down the drain faster than you can say "bob's your uncle," never to be seen again--to the point that many 5e fans now don't even know they existed.We're almost certainly never going to see PrCs, multi-class subclasses, or a variety of other "failed" UA material, because the design culture of 5e is "if it doesn't poll well, it's EVIL TOXIN FROM THE ABYSS." Unless it's Traditional™, then they'll just keep iterating on it. It took several rounds for them to abandon the idea of an actual psionic class, for example, because an actual psionic class was Traditional™ (meaning, it existed in 2e and/or 3e.)I may be cynical and salty on this subject, but I don't feel I'm reaching when I say the current design team treats a single bad response, no matter what the underlying reason may be, as reason to yeet ideas with extreme prejudice. Even when the bad response is "this is too good, buff the stuff we already have so that it won't be broken," they will instead nerf the new stuff. (See: Storm Sorcerers originally got bonus spells, and instead of saying, "hey, yeah, we hear you that Dragon/Chaos Sorcerers are a bit lacking in the spell department, we'll fix that," they went with "oh, okay, we get it, Storm Sorcerer is too powerful--we'll nerf it to match the other Sorcerers!") It's a pattern at this point. Go for the low-hanging fruit. Take no risks. Do nothing mechanical that might be unappreciated. I'm honestly still surprised that they actually made an Artificer class.</blockquote>

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