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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frogged" data-source="post: 5427368" data-attributes="member: 75765">I'm a little surprised people are so upset that these three books were canceled. It appears that they would have contained very little actual new game material.Hero Builder's Handbook: Next to no information was released about this book, but its description made it sound similar to the Player's Strategy Guide, a book containing zero new rules or game material and essentially no story material.Class Compendium: This book was only revealed to us about two months ago and what was described was a book of mostly recycled content. The bulk of this book would have simply been five of the classes from Player's Handbook 1 in a slightly different format but identical mechanically. The only thing listed which was new material were multiclassing rules for essentials characters along with rules for swapping class features between essential and non essential builds of the same class. While that is definitely material I am interested in seeing, it is probably more appropriate in an online article.Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Emporium: This book was billed as an Adventurer's Vault for the dungeon master, containing story, background and adventure hooks for (all?) of the items in this book. While this would have probably produced the largest source of new game material of the three books, it sounds as though it would have contained far fewer items than its predecessors. It appears as though the premise of this book just didn't fit the format. When the concept of an entire book is putting the focus more on the story behind the items and less on the items themselves, how do you even organize the items?  Its content is probably better off being divided into a series of  articles each containing a selection of related items and/or stories.The canceling of books can be seen as a bad sign, but that's only really true if those books were worth publishing, especially if some or all of the content of those would-have-been books is released to us anyway.</blockquote>

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