Final Attack
First Post
Power Sources:
WotC has identified 8 power sources that should take care of basically 90% of the classes they foresee making. They did not mention which ones these are aside from Arcane, Divine, Martial and Psionic.
I can't help thinking about what might be the other 4 power sources which 'cover' 90% of the classes. Anyone care to speculate with me?
1. Primal (pretty sure of this one)
This could encompass druids, sorcerers, and possibly barbarians (if not a martial class)
2. Shadow (mentioned quite a bit, but no confirmation)
This could encompass shadowdancers, necromancers, assassin?, and many others ...
3. Technology/artificing (complete guess, but nice idea)
People that specialise in tricks and traps ... possible?
4. Ki (Not a fan of the idea, but not against it either.)
It really depends how it is implemented. I'm pretty sure nobody wants the monk to turn into a Naruto ninja ... But I imagine that with some very creative writing and justification they could fill this class out.
This could include samurai, ninja, monks, and asian style warriros.
5. Illusionary (Could be a power source of its own, I wouldn't loose sleep if it was arcane though)
It wouldn't be out of the question to make this a seperate power source. Depends on whether they have enough classes to back it up. Depends on whether they want to make illusionists part of the arcane group, which makes sense.
Others I've heard but sound like they are already covered
One more thing I'd mention is that they have mentioned 8 power sources. But I assume they need 9 to get 3 PHBs out (if trend of 3 power sources per book continues). I know I'm getting way ahead of myself, but its fun to speculate.