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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5261676" data-attributes="member: 61155">Sorta. Assuming this is happening (which I'm not sold on), it isn't quite the same thing. 3.0 to 3.5, you needed to buy the updated rules even if you had the old versions.  With this, if you have the old versions of the rules from the PHB/DMG... you don't need the Rules Compendium. You've already got everything in it. It might be slightly better organized with some decent FAQs and some bits of current errata, but existing players don't need to buy it. New players will, instead of buying the old books. Fair enough.  Of course, the snag in this is what happens to the options in the core books, rather than the mechanics. Is the Warlord gone forever, in other words? And again, the answer is no - new players can get access to it via DDI.  This isn't to say this doesn't potentially bug me. But it is a completely different situation than 3.5. In 3.5, existing players had to buy new versions of the same rulebooks to stay up to date. With this, existing players don't need to buy anything - their PHBs remain up to date even if they are out of print.  However, new players would be getting driven towards DDI, rather than printed books, in order to get access to the same content. This would strike me not as the 3.5 drive to get players to rebuy existing content, but instead a new approach to make the digital line even more prominent.  Not the end of the world, especially if there still is new printed content being released. But still... worrisome, at least for me.  Worrisome, admittedly, but not in any way comparable with 3.5.</blockquote>

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