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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 7648308" data-attributes="member: 46713">I definitely disagree with this. _Not_ repeating rules contained in the 'core books' is a good thing. It's also clearly mentioned on the book's back that it's meant to be used to supplement other books.All in all the review is a bit superficial, which is probably okay for a casual D&D player. For someone like myself who owns almost every 4e book released so far, the review isn't that useful. E.g. while the first 35 pages of fluff are nice, a lot of it is basically summarizing material from 'Manual of the Planes' and 'The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos'.For me it is also a very important detail how much of the content is usable with the original 'core books' and how much is meant to be used with the Essentials books. Luckily that information was already made available in WotC's previews.I also felt the cover to be a bit misleading. Despite being called 'Players' Option' I somewhat exprected to see a stat block for Cryonax and maybe a bunch of other elemental beings <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>