Potential problem with power source books?

[Kaffis]

The 3 new core books a year thread got me thinking..

Will there be a problem where the power source books don't get equal weight/attention per class because some power sources have fewer classes to their name?

We've got 8 core classes, half of which use martial, a quarter of which use divine, and a quarter of which are arcane.

Martial Power comes out late this year. By that time, the FR books will add in the Swordmage as another arcane class. But I don't see any new divine classes, well, anywhere. Druid will be primal next year, who knows when monks will show (let alone what source they'll use), and so...?

If Martial Power is 160 pages, that's 40 pages per class of added powers, PPs, epic destinies, and probably pointers/themes for builds and the like, sort of how PHB2 worked in 3.5. If the divine book comes out before any more classes are added, will it be an 80 page book (Seems to be stretching it)? Or will the paladin and cleric get more goodies because divinity is a more rarified breed? Or will we have seen new divine classes by then?

 

[Mort_Q]

Martial powers, to me, seem to be ones that are the most generic in flavour, and would fit into nearly any campaign setting.

The non-martial powers tend to me more specific. Divine powers are more specific to deities or, to use the 3.x term, domains. I can easily imagine filling more than one book with divine powers.

Arcane is the same. There are so many flavours of magic already.

I'm not worried.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

It was commented at DDXP that Martial Power was chosen as the first book because there were more Martial classes in the PHB than any other power source. It was implied that they were not planning on introducing any more Martial classes ever(or at least very few of them). That's why they released this book now, so the Martial source would be "complete".

The impression I got was that they'd introduce, say, more Arcane classes in the next year or in the PHB II. Then, when they had enough Arcane classes, they'd release Arcane Power. And so on.