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<blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 5382845" data-attributes="member: 1956"># CompatibilityIf you consider PHB2/3 or Power books to be compatible with PHB, then, Essentials are at least equally compatible with PHB.I say two Heroes books are compatible with previous books, more so than PHB2/3 were compatible to older books when they were released.In fact, those two books contains races and classes which are already supported by other books. Human is human. Thus, can take human only feats in pre-essentials books. Even Slayer is still Fighter. Thus, a Slayer can take Fighter only feats. When PHB2/3 was released, the new races and classes in those books were not supported by previous books, of course.# Overpowered?No, seems not. At least, I have not yet hear any cogent claim from hard-core power gamers that Essential builds (sub-classes) are overpowered and making older builds obsolete.Some of the powers and feats in Heroes books are stronger ones. But characters based on pre-Essentials build can take most of them if they want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shin Okada, post: 5382845, member: 1956"] # Compatibility If you consider PHB2/3 or Power books to be compatible with PHB, then, Essentials are at least equally compatible with PHB. I say two Heroes books are compatible with previous books, more so than PHB2/3 were compatible to older books when they were released. In fact, those two books contains races and classes which are already supported by other books. Human is human. Thus, can take human only feats in pre-essentials books. Even Slayer is still Fighter. Thus, a Slayer can take Fighter only feats. When PHB2/3 was released, the new races and classes in those books were not supported by previous books, of course. # Overpowered? No, seems not. At least, I have not yet hear any cogent claim from hard-core power gamers that Essential builds (sub-classes) are overpowered and making older builds obsolete. Some of the powers and feats in Heroes books are stronger ones. But characters based on pre-Essentials build can take most of them if they want. [/QUOTE]

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