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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5230991" data-attributes="member: 7006">As far as I've been able to tell from what they've said, much of the feat and power material will be new.&nbsp; However, none of it will be needed by existing players.&nbsp; The hardcover book rules will suit them still just fine.&nbsp; That being said, I belief the info from the Essentials line will appear in the Character Builder, so players old and new can use it all if they so choose.I think they are reprinting the rules because currently all the rules of 4E are spread out amongst 3 Player's Handbooks and 2 DMGs.&nbsp; This includes rules which have been rewritten over time (like Stealth) and new rules that hadn't appeared in earlier books (like Backgrounds and Hybrids).&nbsp; By writing the Compendium, they are putting them all into a single volume, and making it softcover to cut down on cost so that existing players who might already own the hardcovers might decide to pick up the book as well for ease-of-use.&nbsp; Rather than feeling the need to carry five books, they can carry one.On the contrary... if 4E was at the end of its life expectancy, they wouldn't be producing all this new material to get new players into the game.&nbsp; What good would it do to go through all this effort of the Essentials line if they were just going to announce the released of 5E at GenCon or something?&nbsp;I think basically their thought is to have a single, complete, erratad, and reorganized rulebook so that the new players coming in to the game can pick it up and have everything at their fingertips.&nbsp; The two two Heroes books will give them the character generation material, the Rules Compendium will show them how to play.&nbsp; And by making it a smaller, cheaper softcover, existing players might decide to pick it up too.&nbsp; Simple as that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5230991, member: 7006"] As far as I've been able to tell from what they've said, much of the feat and power material will be new. However, none of it will be needed by existing players. The hardcover book rules will suit them still just fine. That being said, I belief the info from the Essentials line will appear in the Character Builder, so players old and new can use it all if they so choose. I think they are reprinting the rules because currently all the rules of 4E are spread out amongst 3 Player's Handbooks and 2 DMGs. This includes rules which have been rewritten over time (like Stealth) and new rules that hadn't appeared in earlier books (like Backgrounds and Hybrids). By writing the Compendium, they are putting them all into a single volume, and making it softcover to cut down on cost so that existing players who might already own the hardcovers might decide to pick up the book as well for ease-of-use. Rather than feeling the need to carry five books, they can carry one. On the contrary... if 4E was at the end of its life expectancy, they wouldn't be producing all this new material to get new players into the game. What good would it do to go through all this effort of the Essentials line if they were just going to announce the released of 5E at GenCon or something? I think basically their thought is to have a single, complete, erratad, and reorganized rulebook so that the new players coming in to the game can pick it up and have everything at their fingertips. The two two Heroes books will give them the character generation material, the Rules Compendium will show them how to play. And by making it a smaller, cheaper softcover, existing players might decide to pick it up too. Simple as that. [/QUOTE]

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