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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5598154" data-attributes="member: 87792">Indeed.  It adds new terms such as subclass.  Like everything else.No.  But it happened in Martial Power.  And PHB 3.  And most other splatbooks.  That's because 3.5 was a rewrite and HOFK/L are extensions in the same way additional PHBs are.By "All the essentials stuff" you mean two books?  HOFL and HOFK?  (Oh, and get Monster Vault - it's awesome).You mean the way Arcane Power uses the PHB2?  Yup, been there for a long time.  Between HOFK and HOFL there are ten classes (Warpriest, Slayer, Knight, Thief, Mage in HOFL and Cavalier, Scout, Hunter, Sentinel, Hexblade in HOFL).  Of these ten classes, eight are new (the Mage is a tweaked Wizard and if they gave Mages Ritual Caster I'd prefer the mage in every way - and the Warpriest is a wis-melee cleric (when previously it wasn't possible) with a few tweaks and bonusses to make up for the limited power selection).Eight new classes.  And because Heroes of Shadow provides support for one of the new classes that didn't previously exist it somehow isn't compatable with the old material?A conclusion I find absolutely stunning when no one who has tried mixing essentials and pre-essentials has reported a problem.  As this thread has shown, the only problems being reported are by those who are not trying to mix the two.</blockquote>