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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8427733" data-attributes="member: 7025997">Also, since people seem to enjoy putting classes into these tables, if this is something you're really into and you're into world-building, you might want to look into tables of correspondences. Premodern thinkers used to arrange things in tables where numbers, colors, days of the week, seasons, foods, animals, plants, and the like corresponded to an element or planet. Each 'power source' could be linked to one of the classical elements (earth, water, air, fire) or seven medieval planets (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn), and you could have caster, half-caster, and non-caster versions. If you want a Chinese flavor, they had five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) with creative and destructive cycles, and eight trigrams (groups of unbroken or broken lines corresponding to sky, marsh, fire, thunder, wind, water, mountain, and earth). Japan and India had earth, water, fire, wind, and void. Or you could even make arcane, divine, martial, primal, and psionic into their own abstract 'element' types.Maybe wizards do better on Wednesdays, whereas thieves do better on Fridays...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8427733, member: 7025997"] Also, since people seem to enjoy putting classes into these tables, if this is something you're really into and you're into world-building, you might want to look into tables of correspondences. Premodern thinkers used to arrange things in tables where numbers, colors, days of the week, seasons, foods, animals, plants, and the like corresponded to an element or planet. Each 'power source' could be linked to one of the classical elements (earth, water, air, fire) or seven medieval planets (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn), and you could have caster, half-caster, and non-caster versions. If you want a Chinese flavor, they had five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) with creative and destructive cycles, and eight trigrams (groups of unbroken or broken lines corresponding to sky, marsh, fire, thunder, wind, water, mountain, and earth). Japan and India had earth, water, fire, wind, and void. Or you could even make arcane, divine, martial, primal, and psionic into their own abstract 'element' types. Maybe wizards do better on Wednesdays, whereas thieves do better on Fridays... [/QUOTE]

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