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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 6004393" data-attributes="member: 87">I like paladins too, but they may return as a prestige class or a kit of some sort.  The archetype is solid, but narrow, which is why of 3e's 11 classes he's the one that got voted off the island. The backbone will start from d20 Pathfinder with influences from several areas.  But the core will remain a recognizable d20 roll high engine.Abora, Valra, Balcra, Sodra and Shunra are the five exarch deities of the setting.  The outer planes they created are Aborea, Valrea, Balcrea, Sodrea, and Shunrea.  Each magic type flows from the respective outer planes.The reasoning is a bit nuanced.  To me it feels funny to a student of magic to call a type of magic by a color name.  "Shunran" magic is a bit more formal sounding than "Red" magic, which is more evocative.  The colors remain insofar as those are the colors of spells under the examination of detect magic. Also, non-magic users and especially commoners will refer to magic by color names.I want to keep the door to publishing the system somewhat open, though I severely doubt that will ever occur especially since I'll be discussing it here.Magic ClassesOk, direct response out of the way, I'm going to look a little closer at the magic classes.  To review they are..Violet & Red - SorcererGreen & Yellow - DruidViolet & Yellow - ClericGreen & Blue - BardRed & Blue - WizardSorting by color gives us...Yellow - Cleric, DruidBlue - Wizard, BardViolet - Cleric, SorcererRed - Sorcerer, WizardGreen - Bard, DruidSpells belong to these five orders, not to the classes.  So any green spell a druid can cast a bard can also cast.  The overlap also should clue into the natures of both class and order.  In Dusk 3e the spell list is divided over the orders after their creation.  Here we're creating new spells with an understanding of the type of effects each order is capable of.If each class has 1 spell per order per spell level it has access to that's 90 spells.  That doesn't give players any choice so a multiple is desirable.  Since 3 is the most spells a character can have at a level there needs to be, at a minimum, 270 spells.Luckily, there are more - far more spells in the setting.  There are some 273 spells in Pathfinder Core, and the Dusk setting book adds another 300 or so. So it isn't so much a process of making spells as whittling down the list.Also, spells will find themselves merged.  Consider how the flight spells might be merged, or the merger of burning hands, flamesphere, and fireball.More thoughts to come...</blockquote>

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