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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8432277" data-attributes="member: 82106">I've rationalized power sources too. I reckon 5 power sources, Martial, Life, Shadow, Elemental, and Spirit. Sorry, the 'arcane' catch-all does-all power source? What does it do? I never got it. "the power of I know stuff??!!" Meh. I think that was the issue with the 4e wizard, it had basically a backstory of "you can do anything", so the class grew like some sort of rabid mold and took over everything. So, my concept for the Wizard is "guy who doesn't really have a power source, but has learned to tap into various different ones, in a somewhat limited way." So, he's the smart guy, but his shtick is mixing and matching cool stuff, not being lord of the universe. Spirit covers both your priests and warlocks and etc. Anything that invokes higher powers in some way. Elemental is, well, your 'primal power' as 4e put it, the raw chaos of uncontrolled physical creation. You can try to study it and bind it, and be an 'Alchemist' (could be called Artificer I guess) or you can channel it directly and become a sorcerer (at least until you get consumed, hehehe). Shadow is illusion and necromancy basically, so you have Illusionist, the Assassin, the Necromancer, etc. Life is pretty much its opposite, the power of growth and generation, so you have your nature channelers, Druids, Berserkers, Bards, etc. Not necessarily all "wild nature", cities are nature too (hence the bard, life force of people).Martial is basically 'Qi', self-energy, discipline, will, and practice manifested into magical power. I don't think there's a NEED for other sources, I could maybe see something like 'Fate'. However, I am a bit stumped as to what callings would fall into that, I can already list a good roster of classes that have no trouble slotting into the current five. I think if you had a 'mentalist' type of class it would likely be a spirit class? I don't know, maybe martial but that does probably come out looking odd, since it would be good at buffing weapon attacks, lol.</blockquote>

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