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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 3718368" data-attributes="member: 1288">Okay, so we know that the classes in the 4E PHB draw on &quot;arcane, divine, and martial&quot; power. And we have reason to believe that future supplements will introduce characters with other power sources.Just as an exercise, I'm curious what other power sources they might draw from pre-existing material. That is, I'm not interested in making up brand new ones; I want to see what potential sources already exist in D&amp;D's rich history.The ones that I'm absolutely convinced we'll see include:PsionicKiAura (I don't know if they'll call it this, but that's essentially what it'll be)Artifice (as in Eberron artificers)Some that I think are possible, but I'm not certain of (and may not be able to support more than a class or two):True NamesBindingShadowBlood (I don't mean drinking, I mean like bloodlines or descent from demons, dragons, etc.)Music (although honestly, I expect bards to be folded into &quot;aura&quot; characters, this one is possible)IncarnumGadgets/alchemyHonestly, I don't expect to see &quot;celestial&quot; or &quot;fiendish&quot; power split out into its own. I think that's handled by a combination of divine and bloodline/descent. But I could be wrong.So what else? Again, I'm not looking for people to make up new ones, but to draw from existing material in older editions. What other sources of power do you think exist, and could potentially be used as the basis for a set of classes?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 3718368, member: 1288"] Okay, so we know that the classes in the 4E PHB draw on "arcane, divine, and martial" power. And we have reason to believe that future supplements will introduce characters with other power sources. Just as an exercise, I'm curious what other power sources they might draw from pre-existing material. That is, I'm not interested in making up brand new ones; I want to see what potential sources already exist in D&D's rich history. The ones that I'm absolutely convinced we'll see include: Psionic Ki Aura (I don't know if they'll call it this, but that's essentially what it'll be) Artifice (as in Eberron artificers) Some that I think are possible, but I'm not certain of (and may not be able to support more than a class or two): True Names Binding Shadow Blood (I don't mean drinking, I mean like bloodlines or descent from demons, dragons, etc.) Music (although honestly, I expect bards to be folded into "aura" characters, this one is [i]possible[/i]) Incarnum Gadgets/alchemy Honestly, I don't expect to see "celestial" or "fiendish" power split out into its own. I think that's handled by a combination of divine and bloodline/descent. But I could be wrong. So what else? Again, I'm not looking for people to make up new ones, but to draw from existing material in older editions. What other sources of power do you think exist, and could potentially be used as the basis for a set of classes? [/QUOTE]

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