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<blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 8071654" data-attributes="member: 6788732">So I know that people associate the 4 elements monk with benders in avatar, but is that really what it is meant to represent? Have the designers actually said that they made it to represent the characters in the show? Someone also mentioned beast master rangers representing the beastmaster character in that old 80s movie, but I'm also not sure that is the case since I feel like it is for people from 3e who played a ranger with an animal companion more than some 80s movie that hardly anyone nowadays would have heard about, seen, or even remembered (granted, the designers might have been fans of it).I think that to get an actual bender class, you'd need just that, a class. It could probably be similar to the warlock in that the equivalent of pacts and invocations could help differentiate them (actually now that I think about it, that is essentially what the pathfinder kineticist is, an elemental warlock).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cbwjm, post: 8071654, member: 6788732"] So I know that people associate the 4 elements monk with benders in avatar, but is that really what it is meant to represent? Have the designers actually said that they made it to represent the characters in the show? Someone also mentioned beast master rangers representing the beastmaster character in that old 80s movie, but I'm also not sure that is the case since I feel like it is for people from 3e who played a ranger with an animal companion more than some 80s movie that hardly anyone nowadays would have heard about, seen, or even remembered (granted, the designers might have been fans of it). I think that to get an actual bender class, you'd need just that, a class. It could probably be similar to the warlock in that the equivalent of pacts and invocations could help differentiate them (actually now that I think about it, that is essentially what the pathfinder kineticist is, an elemental warlock). [/QUOTE]

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