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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5727727" data-attributes="member: 54877">If power source are to have mechanical heft, and then flavor related directly to those mechanics, you could potentially get a lot of milage out of having a slightly longer list, but making each source a bit more narrow.&nbsp; Then make every character out of two sources, with the option to double up on one if preferred. &nbsp;A fighter is a martial/martial character.&nbsp; He takes a bunch of martial stuff.&nbsp; Then he takes a bunch more martial stuff.&nbsp; A barbarian is martial/primal.&nbsp; A druid is maybe divine/primal.&nbsp; A wizard might be arcane/shadow or arcane/elemental or any of several options with arcane, depending upon his specialty.&nbsp; Of course, he could also be arcane/arcane.&nbsp;This would work even better if the class features all became role features, separate from the power source, and the class still had a few things uniquely its own.&nbsp; I think because of its history with classes, again and again D&amp;D designs come up with a good idea that can carry a bunch of weight--and then overwhelm it throwing on even more weight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5727727, member: 54877"] If power source are to have mechanical heft, and then flavor related directly to those mechanics, you could potentially get a lot of milage out of having a slightly longer list, but making each source a bit more narrow. Then make every character out of two sources, with the option to double up on one if preferred. A fighter is a martial/martial character. He takes a bunch of martial stuff. Then he takes a bunch more martial stuff. A barbarian is martial/primal. A druid is maybe divine/primal. A wizard might be arcane/shadow or arcane/elemental or any of several options with arcane, depending upon his specialty. Of course, he could also be arcane/arcane. This would work even better if the class features all became role features, separate from the power source, and the class still had a few things uniquely its own. I think because of its history with classes, again and again D&D designs come up with a good idea that can carry a bunch of weight--and then overwhelm it throwing on even more weight. [/QUOTE]

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