Brain Storming

The design for my game is in a very early stage, and I am still trying to group together ideas.  The collage above are of different sources of inspiration for me that I want to use in the flavor of my game.  I am a big fan of Exalted from White-Wolf as well as their Scion and World of Darkness games, and I wanted to implement a similar, though not necessarily as grand, a level of epic heroism and power into the game.  Also, I enjoy D&D's classes, but I wanted to do something like that but retain the freedom of character development that White-Wolf has in its games.  I also really found Rifts fascinating, blending the mystical with the sci-fi, but wanted a more final fantasy-like feel to it.  I really would like to hear some ideas.

Images for collage citation:

"Kain Highwind (Dragoon) - Artwork for Final Fantasy IV - Playfire." Playfire - Bringing Gamers Together. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. <http://www.playfire.com/a/game/final-fantasy-iv/images/24668>.

"Monsters of Faerûn Art Gallery." Dungeons and Dragons. Wizards of the Coast. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. <http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mof_gallery/MonFaePG42.jpg>.

Paizo.com. Paizo Publishing. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. <http://paizo.com/image/content/SecondDarkness/PZO9013-Drow.jpg>.

Rams, Vinod. "Planar Handbook Art Gallery." Dungeons and Dragons. Wizards of the Coast. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. <http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/planar_gallery/82523.jpg>.

"Rifts Picture by WttWoA - Photobucket." Image Hosting, Free Photo Sharing & Video Sharing at Photobucket. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. <http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z179/WttWoA/?action=view&current=Rifts.png&newest=1>.

UdonCrew. "Exalted- Alchemicals." Browsing DeviantART. DeviantART, 5 Jan. 2009. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. <http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=alchemicals#/d1smlas>.