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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pedr" data-source="post: 5277351" data-attributes="member: 33464">As I understand it, there are neither powers nor monsters in the Rules Compendium; those are in the two Heroes of... books (and Players' Handbooks/x Power books) for powers and the Monster Vaults and Monster Manuals for monsters.On the interview with Mike Mearls and Rich Baker which Critical-Hits recorded at GenCon, it's said that existing players don't need the Red Box. It has two, complementary, targets I think: newcomers to the game who need a simple introduction and people who want it for nostalgia value. I think I'll buy one, but only to use as a teaching/intro tool. The core of Essentials are the two Heroes of ... books, the Rules Compendium and the Monster Vault. As more information about the Dungeon Master's Kit comes out, that might be added to the core list, but I expect that the rule-content will be repeated in the Rules Compendium and the value of the DM Kit will be in the tokens/maps/etc.</blockquote>