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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7244807" data-attributes="member: 82106">I don't recall the exact words that were used, but one or more of the WotC devs basically said "We eliminated Ki because it was just 'the power of being Asian' and we didn't want that in the game."Its exactly like you say, there'd be an insurmountable urge to make 'Asian classes' that use Ki but are effectively just thematic variations of existing classes that would better be served being in their proper power sources. Also, such a Ki source would be a thematic nightmare. If it could thematically contain a Samurai, a Wu-Jen, and a Sohei then it is another 'power of everything' and we already HAD Arcane which is bad enough! Eliminating Ki wasn't really an option. Its inclusion in the original PHB1 list was probably a bit of a throwaway. In fact, at the time, I didn't take any of that list too seriously. Some of the sources on it are fairly obvious ones that certainly were going to be in the game, like Primal, but others weren't so obvious, psionic is purely an option they could have ignored, and I could see 'Elemental' simply having been left off as redundant with Arcane (Honestly it might have been cool if 4e had cast Arcane more as "Lost forbidden knowledge of the Primordials which maybe isn't always good to mess with" anyway. That would have neatly explained why wizards and sorcerers are so good at conjuring up fires and such.)</blockquote>