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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4753449" data-attributes="member: 40961">Well, yes.&nbsp; But that still doesn't make power sources a trivial design issue.&nbsp;I know its forum suicide to make an analogy to any game other than D&amp;D, because some geek-supremacist will come along and sneer at the game you used in comparison.&nbsp; But I really do think that an analogy to Magic the Gathering is in order.&nbsp;Colors in Magic matter.&nbsp; They don't matter for every individual card, necessarily.&nbsp; But they do matter for the overall theme of the collection of cards given that particular color.&nbsp; There are plenty of individual cards which have absolutely nothing to link them to their color except fluff.&nbsp; Your generic, run of the mill 2/2 creature, for example, exists in every single color.&nbsp; And even for specific card concepts, a true master of Magic history and lore can probably remember places where these concepts showed up outside of their normal or stereotypical home.&nbsp; A card which does damage to everything in play?&nbsp; Usually red... unless its black... or green... etc.&nbsp; But none of this negates the idea that, as a collection, there are individual characteristics.&nbsp;If you created a scatter plot of concepts, the swarm of dots for each power source would speckle almost every bit of the graph- but it would still have heavy concentrations in some areas and not in others, in ways that are not mimicked by other power sources. &nbsp;Did that make sense?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4753449, member: 40961"] Well, yes. But that still doesn't make power sources a trivial design issue. I know its forum suicide to make an analogy to any game other than D&D, because some geek-supremacist will come along and sneer at the game you used in comparison. But I really do think that an analogy to Magic the Gathering is in order. Colors in Magic matter. They don't matter for every individual card, necessarily. But they do matter for the overall theme of the collection of cards given that particular color. There are plenty of individual cards which have absolutely nothing to link them to their color except fluff. Your generic, run of the mill 2/2 creature, for example, exists in every single color. And even for specific card concepts, a true master of Magic history and lore can probably remember places where these concepts showed up outside of their normal or stereotypical home. A card which does damage to everything in play? Usually red... unless its black... or green... etc. But none of this negates the idea that, as a collection, there are individual characteristics. If you created a scatter plot of concepts, the swarm of dots for each power source would speckle almost every bit of the graph- but it would still have heavy concentrations in some areas and not in others, in ways that are not mimicked by other power sources. Did that make sense? [/QUOTE]

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