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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 5540874" data-attributes="member: 9053">The important point is that, starting with Essentials, and going forward, the rules for classes in the PHB no longer apply. I suppose you might even go so far back as to the PHB III with the psionic classes, but they were at least described in the context of using the PHB class rules as the basis.For the classes in Heroes of Shadow (and going forward, one presumes) the assumption is that the point of entry is the "Heroes of the..." books and not the PHB. As a result, new rules apply. For now, each class is an island unto itself: complete rules for it's development can be found in the class itself.The classes from the previous books are at the same approximate power level to classic PHB design, they're just created with different assumptions in mind.As I haven't read Heroes of Shadow yet, I wonder if it has any explanation as to how the classes work differently than what you would expect if you are coming from the original core books. Can anyone comment about that?</blockquote>