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       Re: The Serenthan Elements
       By: King (2.0) Date: March 4, 2020, 5:19 am
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       [quote author=AFTRHR link=topic=336.msg7755#msg7755
       date=1568030388]
       I feel like some elements are a little redundant when they could
       easily be repurposed as dual elements or sub-specialisations.
       This was also one of my gripes with the gazillions of Daraiian
       elements, because a lot of them could easily be fulfilled by
       other roles.
       -Laser can be a sub of Light
       -Illusion can be a mix of Light and Sound
       -Plasma can be a sub of Fire or Electricity (a glaring omission)
       -Thunder is a sub of Sound
       -Zero and Null seem kind of the same, don't see why someone who
       doesn't have elemental affinity couldn't qualify for Null.
       -Sun is just a Star.
       -Combining Gravity, Moon and all these other celestial body
       things would be nice because otherwise, they seem really niche.
       Gravity can just be a sub of that then.
       -Animal can be a sub of Bio.
       -Shadow and Darkness seem kinda the same and can be subs of
       Light.
       -Ice can be a sub of Water.
       -Leaf can be a sub of Bio.
       I have no idea what Mend and Anomaly are supposed to be. But
       look, I just shortened your list by at least 10 elements, and it
       becomes much more simple.
       If Chaos is anything like Blah, or if Anomaly means outlier
       powers, then you can just merge Paper into that. There's nothing
       for acid either, and Poison isn't acid necessarily, so a
       Chemical element would be cool.
       In general, you don't really need to have a lot of different
       elements to fill niches. You take large, overarching categories
       and make niches within them. This also has a positive side
       effect of diversity - two people with the element of Light could
       do completely different things with it.
       Just my two rupees though.
       [/quote]
       Okay, I know that AFTRHR already gave us a great explanation on
       how redundant most of these elements are, but sod it, I'll do my
       own take regardless.
       The elements: Aether, Air, Animal, *Anomaly*, *Bio*, *Chaos*,
       Chrono, Darkness, *Data*, *Dream*, Earth, *Emotion*, *Fey*,
       Fire, *Gravity*, Heart, Ice, *Illusion*, *Laser*, Leaf, Light,
       Mana, *Mend*, Metal, Moon, *Nether*, Null, *Paper*, *Plasma*,
       Poison, Psychic, *Shadow*, Sound, Space, Spirit, Star, Sun,
       Thunder, Ultima, and Water.
       We'll only need 13 regular elements: Null, Fire, Earth, Air,
       Water, Metal, Poison, Psychic, Ice, Thunder, Light, Darkness and
       Spirit.
       From there, we can merge several of the elements:
       Spirit can be merged with Aether, Anomaly, Fey, Illusion, Mana,
       Space, Star, Sun and Ultima.
       Chrono, Nether, Sound and Ultima can be merged with the Null
       Element.
       Sun and Star cane be merged with the Fire Element.
       Animal, Leaf, Paper and Mend can be merged with the Earth
       element.
       Laser can be merged into Light, Thunder or  Psychic elements
       Chaos, Shadow. Illusion, Moon and Emotion can be merged with the
       Dark element.
       Data, Illusion, Bio can be merged with the Metal element.
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