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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5727271" data-attributes="member: 7006">I liked the power sources because they gave us new classes that I think are really cool.  I like the Avenger, the Warlord, the Warlock, the Invoker, the Shaman... and without having the power source concept to inform the designers that they needed more sourced classes in order to have enough to fill out the 'Power' splatbooks... there's no guarantee we ever would have seen any of them.I think the biggest problem to the power source concept was the decision to ditch the 'Ki' source... not because I think the 'Ki' source was a great idea... but because it basically resulted in such tenuous ties to power sources for most of the class in the  Player's Handbook III.  Putting Monk as a Psionic without actually giving him Augments was pointless.  Making runes a function of the Divine source for no real reason was pointless, especially considering the Runepriest also didn't use the Channel Divinity functionality like the other Divine classes did.  And recreating the Ranger as a Primal (like it probably should have been in the first place) resulted in a superfluous Seeker class that no one cared about because the Ranger was virtually the same except for role.  Not to mention that because Divine and Primal had already had their Power splatbooks... there was no opportunity for additional material for either of those classes to get made.  So you had three classes that supported the power source ideal... and three more classes that barely did.You couple that lackluster PHIII with the Essentials 'reboot' of classes (which as was mentioned made the sources even more distant from function by doing cross-sourced classes) and you get what used to be an actual fluff-driven conceptual distinction between classes even further away than they started with.I think had they done with PHIII was we all thought they were going to do... 4 Psionic classes, 2 Ki classes, and 2 Shadow classes (followed the following year with 4 Elemental classes, 2 more Ki classes, and 2 more Shadow classes), the power source concept would have remained in a much stronger position.</blockquote>

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