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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5774276" data-attributes="member: 22424">Core matters, because it is what is available at the outset. If your favourite class is, say, the Runepriest, you're going to be out of luck for a good long time until WotC deign to re-implement your favourite for the new edition (if they ever do).Core also matters, because that's the stuff that will inevitably get the most support. This is simple numbers. Pretty much everyone will get the Core, so the market for splatbooks for the classes in the core is large. A significant number (but also a significantly smaller number) may buy PHB2, and only that subset might be interested in splatbooks for classes presented in that book.So, if the Ranger is in the Core Rulebook, there's a very good chance that there will be a &quot;Ranger Splatbook&quot; of some form. If the Ranger is instead relegated to the PHB2, the chances of a &quot;Ranger Splatbook&quot; are much lower. (And it's not just splatbooks, of course. For every DDI article a specific non-core class gets, expect to see at least 4 for an equivalent core class.)The moral of this story is: don't like Runepriests. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The real moral of this story is that when WotC get around to presenting non-core materials, they should try, as far as possible, to do so in a one-and-done manner, because they probably won't be back. At it's most basic, this means that when presenting a core class in the Core Rulebook, they can present it with a fairly limited set of options; when presenting a non-core class in the PHB2, they should present it with many more options, because there's unlikely to ever be a major expansion from there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5774276, member: 22424"] Core matters, because it is what is available at the outset. If your favourite class is, say, the Runepriest, you're going to be out of luck for a good long time until WotC deign to re-implement your favourite for the new edition (if they ever do). Core also matters, because that's the stuff that will inevitably get the most support. This is simple numbers. Pretty much everyone will get the Core, so the market for splatbooks for the classes in the core is large. A significant number (but also a significantly [i]smaller[/i] number) may buy PHB2, and only that subset [i]might[/i] be interested in splatbooks for classes presented in that book. So, if the Ranger is in the Core Rulebook, there's a very good chance that there will be a "Ranger Splatbook" of some form. If the Ranger is instead relegated to the PHB2, the chances of a "Ranger Splatbook" are much lower. (And it's not just splatbooks, of course. For every DDI article a specific non-core class gets, expect to see at least 4 for an equivalent core class.) The moral of this story is: don't like Runepriests. :) The [i]real[/i] moral of this story is that when WotC get around to presenting non-core materials, they should try, as far as possible, to do so in a one-and-done manner, because they probably won't be back. At it's most basic, this means that when presenting a core class in the Core Rulebook, they can present it with a fairly limited set of options; when presenting a non-core class in the PHB2, they should present it with many more options, because there's unlikely to ever be a major expansion from there. [/QUOTE]

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