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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5512950" data-attributes="member: 90804">After reading all of the comments on this thread, I think I'm more confused than when I started. Some folks are saying, "See, everyone was worried that WotC would do a martial-Essentials-style Warlord built on basic attacks with no dailies, but as promised they just reformatted the existing material!" Okay, that's lovely, but I think I'm still missing the point of publishing this article. I guess it's nice of WotC to give away the Warlord class as a free bonus to anyone who wants it, and I guess it's nice to have it in the same layout as the Heroes Of... books to make it easier for players who only have those books to understand it. I'm sure the power tweaks and clarifications are nice, too. I'm really glad that they're not charging for it, as there's just nothing new here, though. It feels really, really pointless to me. Why did WotC expend effort on this reformatting? I'm sure it took time and resources to have people redo the layout. Am I alone in feeling like that was a waste and wishing they would have put that time and those resources into new content of some sort (whether for the Warlord or something else entirely)?Don't get me wrong, I'm completely fine with the layout and I think it's lovely that WotC made this available for free. But is it a good use of the company's limited game development resources? Wouldn't people rather see new stuff instead of reformatted stuff - again, whether for the Warlord or something else entirely?Maybe that's why they ended up killing off the Class Compendium book - someone looked at it and said, "What's the point?" And while I know that some people would love to have the PHB1 reprinted with errata and tidy formatting, I'd rather WotC put their effort into creating cool new stuff rather than reformatting old stuff.</blockquote>

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