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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 200849" data-attributes="member: 2486">I can think of quite a few reasons why this product would be a bad idea.Firstly, marketing sense.  Now, a few people here may shell out for a second PHB, but then being part of a messageboard community dedicated to DnD, we're probably at the more hardcore end of the market.  And even here a lot of people are saying that they would not.  I cannot possibly envisage a mass market for a second PHB.Secondly, it would drift to the fringes.  11 new core classes.  That's incredible.  At the moment, the 11 core classes we have cover pretty much anything and everything.  I even feel that some classes (ranger, paladin) are too narrow or too similar (sorceror) to existing classes.  And you wish to be in another 11?  What could they possibly be?  A core class has to be broad, not like a narrow prestige class.Feats we have tons of anyway.  Simply compiling the splatbook feats makes it a compilation, not a second PHB, and is marketing suicide- it would leech sales from the splatbooks.More skills unbalances the skill points per class as they will need to acquire more different skills.  A huge overhaul of the entire system balance would be required.More spells are always welcome in my book, but why not simply release a Tome of Magic type book rather than a second PHB.All in all, a second PHB seems superfluous.</blockquote>