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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Proctor" data-source="post: 4549951" data-attributes="member: 78547">Also, the 2e book didn't have a whole lot in it for certain classes.&nbsp; Like Fighters?&nbsp; You had a chart telling you how many attacks you got per round and rules on gaining stands of followers.&nbsp; That was about it though.&nbsp; There wasn't the giant list of powers that we have now, and a lot of the special combat techniques that I used to further my character came from the Warrior's Handbook that came out later.&nbsp; With the 2e PHB, all you had was just a pretty basic and generic Fighter that just hit more times per round as he leveled up.So yeah, maybe there aren't as many builds and whatnot, but for some classes they've totally changed how they worked.&nbsp; They've given everyone new things to do and build new rules for the system from the ground up.&nbsp; Yes, they could've reduced the font and such and crammed some more in, but from what we've heard about just Martial Power, I doubt they could've fit all the extra info into the PHB, let alone for all the Arcane and Divine classes.&nbsp; Add to that the fact that the PHB II/III should be adding more races, more classes, more powers, more feats, etc..&nbsp; They couldn't have crammed it all into one book, and if they did, they would've had to pare it down to a very basic idea for each concept, just like the old 2e PHB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doctor Proctor, post: 4549951, member: 78547"] Also, the 2e book didn't have a whole lot in it for certain classes. Like Fighters? You had a chart telling you how many attacks you got per round and rules on gaining stands of followers. That was about it though. There wasn't the giant list of powers that we have now, and a lot of the special combat techniques that I used to further my character came from the Warrior's Handbook that came out later. With the 2e PHB, all you had was just a pretty basic and generic Fighter that just hit more times per round as he leveled up. So yeah, maybe there aren't as many builds and whatnot, but for some classes they've totally changed how they worked. They've given everyone new things to do and build new rules for the system from the ground up. Yes, they could've reduced the font and such and crammed some more in, but from what we've heard about just [B]Martial [/B]Power, I doubt they could've fit all the extra info into the PHB, let alone for all the Arcane and Divine classes. Add to that the fact that the PHB II/III should be adding more races, more classes, more powers, more feats, etc.. They couldn't have crammed it all into one book, and if they did, they would've had to pare it down to a very basic idea for each concept, just like the old 2e PHB. [/QUOTE]

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