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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tinker" data-source="post: 3139415" data-attributes="member: 46684">Re the types of magic:Can you explain why you've chosen the casting stats you have?  I see the logic of Intelligence being the most studious and Charisma the least, and the difference of Wis for Divine and Int for Arcane has a venerable pedigree, but I'm not sure why Divine and Green magic should differ in the way they do.  Can you explain a bit more about life energies?  In the traditional DnD world view positive and negative energy are more of a Divine thing.  Sorry if I'm being crashingly ignorant due to posting before reading more than a few threads off this site, but what do you mean by Vancian spell valences?  I've read some Vance so I might understand a very short explanation, but I'm not sure exactly what in the rules this refers to.  Re classes spoilerI think Cleric is the ideal name for a studied Divine caster, because of its semantic associations with book-work.  How about Mystic for the instinctive version?Personally, I think that you only need core classes for the pure types.  You can emulate the mixed classes by multi-classing, especially if you expand the flexible parts of the rules, like feats, to give the pure classes potential access to a wider range of abilities.  Sneak Attack being a perfect example.  A bit harsh on Bards?!  You can just say they're warrior-minor, expert-minor and arcane-main (instinctive), or something along those lines.  Do you not use psionics?  They would be another type of caster if you want to include them in the campaign.   I agree entirely - the flip side of this answer is that you'd need to change the rules for spellcasting a lot to have the same kind of flexibility.  If you retain approximately the core rules for spellcasting then either you need separate classes to allow multi-classing between them, or the different kinds of caster are exclusive and if you follow one path you can't do another.  Speaking of changing the rules for spellcasting classes, I will have to check out this True20 thing suggested by GreatLemur.  I'm gestating a reworking of the core classes myself.  I've thought on somewhat similar lines to those outlined by Al in the off-topic bit.  Al - do you mind this thread being taken over by discussion on that, or do you want to start another thread or an off-board discussion?</blockquote>

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