Dungeons & Dragons Essentials: Rules Compendium
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Wizards of the Coast

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Excellent Resource

neoookami — Sep 28, 2010, 12:55 PM

Regardless of how you feel about how often the rules are updated in 4e, updated a lot they are! At this point the rules and revisions are roughly spread across five different books. This book takes those rules and consolidates them to one smaller, though quite dense volume. That alone is incredibly useful as a table-side reference for the game.

The only reason I'm not giving it a full five stars is because it really is dense. For being in the Essentials line aimed at new players it looks incredibly intimidating. (Even as someone that's been playing 4e for over two years, flipping through evokes a bit of a "yikes!") However it's an extremely well written and easy to digest volume in spite of this. The rules for the game have never been presented more clearly and concisely.

If you're a regular 4e player this is a no brainer. If you don't play 4e, it's an excellent book to start with. Combined with a DDI subscription you aren't really going to need anything else to get by.

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