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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9228252" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Mike Mearls claimed, in an interview, that each Power Source had a sort of &quot;sub-role&quot; associated with it- for example, all the Arcane Power source classes had a slice of Controller, the Divine Power source classes had a touch of Leader, and all the Martial Power source classes had a slice of Striker, for examples.There were a few effects that required a power source- Wands, for example, required you to have an Arcane power to use their built-in power.Unfortunately, the full potential of Power Sources wasn't touched upon- there weren't a lot of things that referenced them, and even with the early ones, what you could or could not do with a given Power source was unclear (let alone the later, more esoteric sources, like Shadow or Elemental).For example, I noted that every Power source allowed for a teleport ability with the exception of Martial.&nbsp; Even Rangers could teleport, because they had access to a few Primal powers in later books.&nbsp; And there was nothing that Martials could do that other power sources couldn't, so it seemed like it was just a limitation to be Martial.In the end, it was a neat idea that they got carried away with, leading to some of the odder classes that simply existed to match Power source A with Role B (like the Seeker).&nbsp; And there wasn't even an attempt at a Martial Controller until Essentials (one of the E-Rangers, and it didn't do a very good job of it).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9228252, member: 6877472"] Mike Mearls claimed, in an interview, that each Power Source had a sort of "sub-role" associated with it- for example, all the Arcane Power source classes had a slice of Controller, the Divine Power source classes had a touch of Leader, and all the Martial Power source classes had a slice of Striker, for examples. There were a few effects that required a power source- Wands, for example, required you to have an Arcane power to use their built-in power. Unfortunately, the full potential of Power Sources wasn't touched upon- there weren't a lot of things that referenced them, and even with the early ones, what you could or could not do with a given Power source was unclear (let alone the later, more esoteric sources, like Shadow or Elemental). For example, I noted that every Power source allowed for a teleport ability with the exception of Martial. Even Rangers could teleport, because they had access to a few Primal powers in later books. And there was nothing that Martials could do that other power sources couldn't, so it seemed like it was just a limitation to be Martial. In the end, it was a neat idea that they got carried away with, leading to some of the odder classes that simply existed to match Power source A with Role B (like the Seeker). And there wasn't even an attempt at a Martial Controller until Essentials (one of the E-Rangers, and it didn't do a very good job of it). [/QUOTE]

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