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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 3723889" data-attributes="member: 1879">Gasoline. Gasoline powered characters will kick butt. And then you introduce the new Athas where long term use of gasoline has destroyed the ecology, the world is a wasteland, but the is new hope in the form of green powered heroes (biofueled halflings, battery powered gnomes, etc) who fight the Gas Lords.&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Personally I think an aura is an effect, not a source. And I suspect you'll see the warlord useing them right out of the gate with 4ed. I would like to see the return of the Binder, I love that class. Artificers will no doubt return in Eberron 4 along with their gasoline powered warforged henchmen. Truenames are cool in theory but no one has yet done a good adaptation of them to an RPG. And, frankly they probably fold into the existing arcane source. Remember that these 3 power sources are actually pretty broad. Divine covers the gifts of Gods, the Power of Nature (Druids and Rangers), and probably Faith itself for those not devoted to a particular God. Looking at it that way, Chi (Produced by faith in oneself and meditation) and Incarnum probably both fall under the heading of Divine.Likewise any magic that is not divine probably is Arcane even if it's not Wizardry. A warlock is Arcane in 3.5 for example. Perhaps a Tattoed Monk and a Psion are arcane in 4ed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 3723889, member: 1879"] Gasoline. Gasoline powered characters will kick [i]butt[/i]. And then you introduce the new Athas where long term use of gasoline has destroyed the ecology, the world is a wasteland, but the is new hope in the form of green powered heroes (biofueled halflings, battery powered gnomes, etc) who fight the Gas Lords. :D Personally I think an aura is an effect, not a source. And I suspect you'll see the warlord useing them right out of the gate with 4ed. I would like to see the return of the Binder, I love that class. Artificers will no doubt return in Eberron 4 along with their gasoline powered warforged henchmen. Truenames are cool in theory but no one has yet done a good adaptation of them to an RPG. And, frankly they probably fold into the existing arcane source. Remember that these 3 power sources are actually pretty broad. Divine covers the gifts of Gods, the Power of Nature (Druids and Rangers), and probably Faith itself for those not devoted to a particular God. Looking at it that way, Chi (Produced by faith in oneself and meditation) and Incarnum probably both fall under the heading of Divine. Likewise any magic that is not divine probably is Arcane even if it's not Wizardry. A warlock is Arcane in 3.5 for example. Perhaps a Tattoed Monk and a Psion are arcane in 4ed. [/QUOTE]

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