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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 5350725" data-attributes="member: 63763">One part of the news thing I found interesting was: " feats that allow the original class builds and the new class builds to work together. It also features more feats, rituals, and rules for multiclassing." Multiclassing with stuff like the Essential martial classes was something I had been wondering about, so that is definitely something new. For the most part, the rules compendium and class compendium seem to be mostly a consolidated and reformated collection of stuff that originally was in a number of different sources (Players Handbook, Dragon Mag, X Power, Errata, etc) all in one spot. Someone that already had all three PHBs, the DMG and access to the web for errata would already know all he rules in the Rules Compendium, but they wouldnèt be in a single easy to carry around and easy to skim through book. If they were going to reprint something like the PHB anyway, why stick to the original format (in which case you would have to either increase the size of the book to include all the new rules that came after, or just leave them out requiring a reprint of PHB2, PHB3, DMG1 and DMG2, and Martial Power, Martial Power 2, Arcane Power, etc, etc, etc ...) when the resulting book will either be completely different than it was originally and be more or less incomplete and inconvenient. There are a lot of rules out there in many different books ... in reissuing the rules (including the existing errata), it just makes sense to reorginize it. Put all the class neutral rules together in the rules compendium, and then have books dedicated to including all the rules for a specific class that spans their original phb, and any additional builds from X power, dragon and campaign settings, etc ...</blockquote>

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