Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4585569" data-attributes="member: 40961">I think everyone has the Shadow power source wrong.  Everyone's assuming that because the Shadow power source has been previewed as containing necromancy and illusion, that there must be a necromancer and an illusionist. I think that's faulty reasoning. The Shadow power source was born from the 3e Shadowcaster.  It used illusions, sure, but only as a portion of a larger power set.  That's the same way it used necromancy.  I'd look for the Shadow power source to be more about "shadow" as in "the themes that animated the shadow power source in 3e augmented for 4e" instead of as in "individual classes that each focus on one constituent element of the things that went into the mixture that we call the shadow power source." So I'd expect the Shadowcaster himself to be the controller.  I'd look for some sort of class that mixes the shadowdancer and the Shadow Hand discipline from Tome of Battle.  I'd expect the necromancer, honestly, but maybe not in the way everyone thinks- remember that one base class for 3e that was all necromancy but didn't really summon stuff?  I'd expect that.  I don't know what the fourth will be.</blockquote>