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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 4475518" data-attributes="member: 58401">You're right, having different mechanics for each power source could make things that much more interesting, but consider that the mechanical differences between power sources (both in their historical forms and as you suggest above) are fairly arbitrary.I like the "one mechanic fits all" approach to power sources used in 4E, because I appreciate its simplicity and straightforwardness. Yep, it's arbitrary too, but the advantage is that it's universal and therefore constant. Furthermore, for the purposes you've outlined above, I think you should like 4E's approach too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> (Bear with me for a moment.)A unified power system gives you a convenient baseline for developing new powers (and mechanics relating to those powers). Assuming that you're interested in maintaining balance between your power source systems, it would be wise to build using that baseline as a foundation, rather than trying to emulate the various structures of previous editions; it's much more difficult to compare balance when each power source is developed from a separate baseline. (Don't forget that one of 3.5E's biggest problems was widely disparate levels of capability between its "power sources"; 3.5E Fighters versus Wizards is the classic example.)I'm curious to see what you come up with!</blockquote>

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