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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8560633" data-attributes="member: 907">That's actually one of the things I like the least about Pathfinder 2. I'm fine with &quot;power sources&quot;, but I think different classes should express those power sources differently, and spells need to take the rest of the class into account.As an example, the primal spell list in Pathfinder has a lot of polymorph spells that turn the caster into various things. These are tuned to be cast by a druid, with 8 hp per level and (if they're the kind of druid who specializes in these) an attack bonus when polymorphed. These are not as useful when cast by a primal sorcerer who has 6 hp per level, because the temp hp you gain from them are tuned with an 8 hp class in mind.As a different example, look at 4e. 4e also used different power sources: martial, arcane, divine, primal, psionic (maybe some more in later supplements). But the powers available to each class were more about that class's role (defender, striker, leader/support, controller) than power source. A swordmage (arcane defender) had very different spells from a wizard (arcane controller), and a shaman (primal leader) was very different from a barbarian (primal striker).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8560633, member: 907"] That's actually one of the things I like the least about Pathfinder 2. I'm fine with "power sources", but I think different classes should express those power sources differently, and spells need to take the rest of the class into account. As an example, the primal spell list in Pathfinder has a lot of polymorph spells that turn the caster into various things. These are tuned to be cast by a druid, with 8 hp per level and (if they're the kind of druid who specializes in these) an attack bonus when polymorphed. These are not as useful when cast by a primal sorcerer who has 6 hp per level, because the temp hp you gain from them are tuned with an 8 hp class in mind. As a different example, look at 4e. 4e also used different power sources: martial, arcane, divine, primal, psionic (maybe some more in later supplements). But the powers available to each class were more about that class's role (defender, striker, leader/support, controller) than power source. A swordmage (arcane defender) had very different spells from a wizard (arcane controller), and a shaman (primal leader) was very different from a barbarian (primal striker). [/QUOTE]

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