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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 5541122" data-attributes="member: 63763">Presumably, in print they want to make sure new content is accessible to all. So, it needs to 'require' the evergreen products (i.e. HotFK/HotFL and Rules Compendium). If you have access to DDi, you automatically have access to all the content, so a new build for the runepriest is something you can conceivably use, because you have access to the runepriest content. In book form, a new runepriest build would require someone have a copy of PHB3 available, which some stores may no longer stock, and as a non-evergreen product, wouldn't be getting it back in. So it's quite possible that, going forward, player book content will mostly be new classes, new builds of existing essential classes, or feat/PP/epic destiny content that is basically Essentials neutral. So the kinds of things that were already confirmed, open PPs and reverse compatible powers. The market for the books is aimed at requiring as few books as possible, and they'll presumably focus on the books that are supposed to always be in print and available. Online, they don't need that, since the original classes being supported are also online. It may not be what some people want, but I would guess that may be their plan going forward. Books will be mostly about producing new stuff (either new builds or new classes) and less about supporting older stuff, that is going to be the job of Dragon.</blockquote>