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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8440127" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>It IS somewhat ambiguous. I mean, is Vampire an 'Essentials' class? I would say 'no', but other people claim it is (my argument is that a careful reading shows that it is a standard design class, with AEDU slots, just that many levels have only one or two power choices, technically you could take MC feats and swap them out, no special rules needed, or write additional powers, this is unlike HIGHLY essentialized classes like Slayer, but also unlike the more mildly essentialized ones like Warpriest. Then there is the Mage, OBVIOUSLY an Essentials class, as it shows up in HotFK, but ALSO clearly a pure PHB1 style AEDU class, just slightly different from the basic Wizard builds presented there. </p><p></p><p>Then you have stuff that shows up in some of the later books like Skald and Berserker. They vary from PHB1 class AEDU to varying degrees, but don't quite fit any Essentials pattern either (and the Witch is pure AEDU). You also have Elementalist, which seems quite essentialist in its design, but technically it is neither classic, nor Essentials.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8440127, member: 82106"] It IS somewhat ambiguous. I mean, is Vampire an 'Essentials' class? I would say 'no', but other people claim it is (my argument is that a careful reading shows that it is a standard design class, with AEDU slots, just that many levels have only one or two power choices, technically you could take MC feats and swap them out, no special rules needed, or write additional powers, this is unlike HIGHLY essentialized classes like Slayer, but also unlike the more mildly essentialized ones like Warpriest. Then there is the Mage, OBVIOUSLY an Essentials class, as it shows up in HotFK, but ALSO clearly a pure PHB1 style AEDU class, just slightly different from the basic Wizard builds presented there. Then you have stuff that shows up in some of the later books like Skald and Berserker. They vary from PHB1 class AEDU to varying degrees, but don't quite fit any Essentials pattern either (and the Witch is pure AEDU). You also have Elementalist, which seems quite essentialist in its design, but technically it is neither classic, nor Essentials. [/QUOTE]
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