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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shawn_Kehoe" data-source="post: 3677461" data-attributes="member: 21894">So the D&D Rules Compendium hits this October, a standard 160-page hardcover. The promotional blurb says that it covers all the most important rules of the game, allowing you to bring fewer books to the game table. With that provision, I'm not certain what it could include/replace.Books it cannot replace at the gaming table:Player's Handbook / Dungeon Master's Guide:  yeah, you could take the adventuring, magic and combat chapters and condense them, but you'll still need both books on hand to look up magic items and spell descriptions. So while they could include that info in the RC, what would be the point if the other two books are still needed?Psionics Handbook / Tome of Magic / Tome of Battle: RC could contain the rules for the basic systems. But if a PC or NPC is using a character from these books, they are still going to want the book to refer to spell/power descriptions.Some things I think it could include:Epic Rules: the bits of the 3.5 Epic SRD that haven't seen print could be put here, along with the Epic Feats from the various Complete books. Epic Spellcasting and magic items should be available in print, since a fair portion of the userbase is probably ignorant of the hypertext SRD. And c'mon ... there are monsters in the Monster Manual that have DR/epic, but no rules in the DMG for epic weapons?I wouldn't expect the Epic monsters to be reprinted though.Divine Ranks: Once again, this material is in the SRD, and I could see it being reprinted here, just without the pantheons.Taint Rules: After appearing in Oriental Adventures, Unearthed Arcana and Heroes of Horror, it's clear that WotC likes this system.Feats: I think reprinted feats will be a big focus. There probably aren't enough good feats to fill a 160-page book on their own, hence "Rules Compendium" instead of "Feat Compendium," but they could include the feats from most of the "Complete" books. I think the Psionics material would be ruled too esoteric for the space requirement (12 pages of feats in the Expanded PsiHB).Any other theories?</blockquote>

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