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Confusion over Class Compendium, Essentials, and Splat Books
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<blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5569816" data-attributes="member: 90804"><p>The Class Compendium articles are reprints of the PHB1 classes with rules updates ("errata") and new formatting. This means that the classes have new sub-class names (the old Fighter is now the Weaponmaster, the old Cleric is now the Templar, and so on). It also means that anything that had been edited about the class or its powers over the past couple of years will be incorporated in the new write-up.</p><p></p><p>In addition, they've introduced some new rules updates with the Class Compendium articles. The power-level changes to several of the Templar powers received a lot of attention, for instance. These are new rules updates that weren't previously published.</p><p></p><p>If you are a hard-copy kind of person, you'll probably prefer printing out the Class Compendium articles and using those instead of the PHB1 for the classes that have been updated.</p><p></p><p>As for the splat books, the Class Compendium articles don't affect those in any way that I know of. I'm sure there have been rules updates to some of the powers and feats printed in those books over the years, but I don't know if any of that is in the Class Compendium articles.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I use the Character Builder, so it doesn't make much difference to me one way or the other. But I understand your question about the physical books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OnlineDM, post: 5569816, member: 90804"] The Class Compendium articles are reprints of the PHB1 classes with rules updates ("errata") and new formatting. This means that the classes have new sub-class names (the old Fighter is now the Weaponmaster, the old Cleric is now the Templar, and so on). It also means that anything that had been edited about the class or its powers over the past couple of years will be incorporated in the new write-up. In addition, they've introduced some new rules updates with the Class Compendium articles. The power-level changes to several of the Templar powers received a lot of attention, for instance. These are new rules updates that weren't previously published. If you are a hard-copy kind of person, you'll probably prefer printing out the Class Compendium articles and using those instead of the PHB1 for the classes that have been updated. As for the splat books, the Class Compendium articles don't affect those in any way that I know of. I'm sure there have been rules updates to some of the powers and feats printed in those books over the years, but I don't know if any of that is in the Class Compendium articles. Personally, I use the Character Builder, so it doesn't make much difference to me one way or the other. But I understand your question about the physical books. [/QUOTE]
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