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EDIT: Whoah, quintuple post. Something wrong with the boards...? Could someone delete the extras? Lol.

Personally, I find the idea of a ki power source laughable, its pretty much a "Hey, its asian class, lets throw it in the KI group" is how it comes off to me. If you can be a cleric because of a philosophy (look at the PHBI, its in there), then you could certainly apply that logic to many more classes.

The samurai is a fighter, not ifs, ands or buts. Scale armor is essentially Japanese Greatarmor. A ninja is a rogue...sorry, its what he is. You lurk in shadows, use light weapons, and throw stuff....um...sounds like the 4e rogue to me. Sure maybe a build option, or a pp to make the rouge more ninja-esk for those that seem to believe ninja's have magical mystical arts. (A spell casting type ninja would be a seperate class, but I wouldn't give it the ninja in name, I'd call it something else, that applies more universally).

If they did a 'spirit' power source, and threw like the monk in there, and said the monk calls his spirit 'ki', I'd be cool with it. That way you could bring back some other SPIRIT based classes, without having an asian dump power source.

A shugenja is either elemental or divine, the wu-jen is A WIZARD, a samurai is a greatweapon fighter or a two weapon fighter (build option, not a seperate class), ninja works well with either rogue build, the sohei is a different flavored paladin (maybe like a dex charisma build, once again, not a unique class idea, though honestly, using the protective paladin with like a glaive, you could pull of the effect), and I'm sure there are more classes I'm missing, but I think I illustrated my point.