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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5469658" data-attributes="member: 59082">Well remember that I'm going with the idea of 4E as a kind of non-anime/manga version of Exalted, which also means that it might have a tighter focus than D&D, even tied to a specific setting like Exalted is - some kind of mythic age of legends. Maybe, as I implied, each PC is part of one or another bloodline or ancestry that goes back to the more powerful Elder Races. Powers are tied to the different bloodlines; if a PC has multiple bloodlines they're equivalent to multi-class, but instead it would be "multi-power."The Heroic tier would be equivalent to the coming-of-age for these characters, with Paragon a kind of maturation and Epic full blossoming into their demigodhood. The reason for the Flaw could be tied into the backstory - perhaps the Elder Races perished because of some major cataclysm or war, all because they were flawed in some way, and some that normal humans are not. Or it may be that the power of the bloodline gives a corresponding weakness, sort of like Achilles' Heel. Or maybe all of the Elder Races perished but preserved themselves in the blood of humans, and this blood could "activate" later on but with consequences tied to the specific power source.To put it all another way, I think the power source idea could be better exploited but that because 4E is tied to legacy and is still trying to cover the entire D&D territory, it is caught between being mundane and magical, which doesn't quite work. A common (and justified) complaint (imo) is that 4E doesn't do low fantasy and/or sword & sorcery very well - everything is too...gonzo. I'd like to see 5E address this; but if we're talking about 4E as a non-D&D game, then I'd like to see powers exploited further.</blockquote>

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