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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 5732363" data-attributes="member: 48965">No, that's not exactly true... power source does tend to correlate with the type of damage your powers do. Like alot of divine powers doing radiant damage and it being more effective against undead.  Great if you happen to worship a war god or something along those lines, but still limiting for other types of gods.   I think there's a big middle between god of violence and god of peace that you are overlooking.  I don't see a correlation between the god/ideal and role. Otherwise why isn't my paladin of a war god a striker? On another note I would argue every god in 4e upholds proactive violence by the simple fact that they all have weapon wielding paladins in their service...   I would argue that the bard isn't the traditional arcane archetype (that would be Wizard, and upon further thought the archetype is the wizard class.)... he's a totally different archetype since he's a little bit of everything not just arcane... in fact I would say the bard is more under the rogue archetype than that of the wizard.  Sigh, I don't think power source has anything to do with it, that's something WotC extrapolated from archetypes... but true archetypes transcend that. When I say archetype, I am speaking of archetypical classes, and power source can be a part of them, but it doesn't define archetypes.</blockquote>