Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7382103" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Historically speaking, third edition had the Shugenja class, which was divided by classical elements. You got a bonus when casting spells of your own element, but you could never learn the opposing element, which was unfortunate since all of the blasting spells were in Fire and all of the healing spells were in Water; if you wanted both, it meant you had to specialize in buffs or de-buffs.Mechanically, such a thing would be trivial to construct in 5E. You just make a spellcaster class that has four subclasses, and restrict most of the spells to one particular subclass. The only hard part would be dividing the spells up evenly between subclasses.And of course, a game that utilized such a restricted caster class would be pointless if you still allowed things like Wizard and Cleric at their full capacities. That was what really killed the Shugenja in 3E, was that Druid still existed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7382103, member: 6775031"] Historically speaking, third edition had the Shugenja class, which was divided by classical elements. You got a bonus when casting spells of your own element, but you could never learn the opposing element, which was unfortunate since [I]all[/I] of the blasting spells were in Fire and [I]all[/I] of the healing spells were in Water; if you wanted both, it meant you had to [I]specialize[/I] in buffs or de-buffs. Mechanically, such a thing would be trivial to construct in 5E. You just make a spellcaster class that has four subclasses, and restrict most of the spells to one particular subclass. The only hard part would be dividing the spells up evenly between subclasses. And of course, a game that utilized such a restricted caster class would be pointless if you still allowed things like Wizard and Cleric at their full capacities. That was what really killed the Shugenja in 3E, was that Druid still existed. [/QUOTE]

Verification