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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5533605" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think you're confusing marketing copy with game rules.The text on the back of HoS is marketing copy. It's not relevant to anyone who has a deep knowledge of the game rules, including the pre-Essentials material. It's job is to tell new players what other books they need to play the game. And naturally enough, it points to WotC's preferred &quot;on-ramp&quot; for the game ie Essentials.This doesn't mean, though, that the game ruless in HoS are in any way limited to Essentials PCs. From what I've heard it gives us a striker paladin, a striker vampire, a new assassin, and plenty of new wizard and cleric powers (including WIS implement cleric powers, which are primarily for non-Essentials clerics).Whether or not the rules are any good, I just don't think it makes any sense to say that they're limited to Essentials.Isn't the 'classic' Assassin DDI-only? I think this is a major reason why it doesn't figure prominently in HoS. And in any event, couldn't a DDI Assassin use feats and powers from the HoS Assassin? - meaning that the classic Assassin has been supported.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5533605, member: 42582"] I think you're confusing marketing copy with game rules. The text on the back of HoS is marketing copy. It's not relevant to anyone who has a deep knowledge of the game rules, including the pre-Essentials material. It's job is to tell new players what other books they need to play the game. And naturally enough, it points to WotC's preferred "on-ramp" for the game ie Essentials. This doesn't mean, though, that the [I]game ruless[/I] in HoS are in any way limited to Essentials PCs. From what I've heard it gives us a striker paladin, a striker vampire, a new assassin, and plenty of new wizard and cleric powers (including WIS implement cleric powers, which are primarily for non-Essentials clerics). Whether or not the rules are any good, I just don't think it makes any sense to say that they're limited to Essentials. Isn't the 'classic' Assassin DDI-only? I think this is a major reason why it doesn't figure prominently in HoS. And in any event, couldn't a DDI Assassin use feats and powers from the HoS Assassin? - meaning that the classic Assassin [I]has[/I] been supported. [/QUOTE]

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