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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 4213581" data-attributes="member: 2723">That may not be the case, though. Are there less classes? Yes. But less content?  The Classes chapter in the 3.5 PHB is 40 pages long. Add in the Spells chapter, and you have 163 pages of playable content for your character.  By comparison, here's what we know of the 4E PHB. 1) The Classes chapter starts on page 50. 2) The Paladin ends on page 102. 3) The classes are in alphabetical order, so Paladin is third on the list. So on average, each class probably gets about 18 pages. Assuming that holds true for the last five, that's 144 pages worth of playable content. That's 19 pages less then the 3.5 PHB. Is that really so bad in comparison? Neverminding that that's not all there is. We also have Rituals to take into account, as well as Epic Destinies (which're far more integral than Prestige Classes). All of that could easily take up those 19 pages.  Not to mention that the playable content is spread about evenly between all the classes. You can't say the same about the 3.5 classes. The 3.5 Barbarian, Fighter, and Rogue just have two pages each, while the Monk has about three. And those 123 pages of spells are pretty much useless to those four classes. The Bard, Paladin, and Ranger have more playable content, but nowhere near to the degree that the Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, and Wizard have. So even if one wanted to disregard the Rituals and Epic Destinies, and claim that 19 fewer pages for classes is a money grab, you can't deny that most of the classes are getting far, far more then they ever have in any prior edition. Has the Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue ever seen as much playable content as they'll be getting in 4E?  Odds are, the playable content in the 4E PHB will very nearly match the content in the 3.5 PHB, and possibly surpass it. That's pretty impressive when you're comparing eight classes to eleven.</blockquote>

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