• Streamlined rulings, pre-HGSS rulings removed, except those that are still relevant
• Updated existing rulings, applied to Abilities & Trainers as appropriate [with edited text in brackets]
• Updated links, to card scans from the PokeGym Researching Tower
• Comprehensive index, so you can jump right to or bookmark a specific ruling

Check it all out at

http://compendium.pokegym.net/compendium-bw.html

Did I say, editions, plural? Yes! There is now a mobile edition of the Compendium BW at

http://compendium.pokegym.net/cpdmbw.html

This mobile edition is designed to work with your iOS & Android mobile phones (and maybe some others!). Right now, it requires an Internet connection to use on your mobile device.

And if you read between the lines here or read the introduction carefully, you’ll know there are a couple more editions in the works.

Please give us your feedback, corrections and considered suggestions in this article’s thread on the PokeGym. If the mobile edition works (or doesn’t work) on your phone, we’d like to know the model of phone and version of its operating system.

Thank you, loyal Compendium readers, for how much you care about good rulings! These editions are for you.

The Pokémon TCG Rulings Compendium continues to be available in 3 editions, the original (WotC rulings), the EX version (with the first four years of PUI rulings) and the current LvX edition. You can find them all linked on one page at the Compendium Site — just click the “The Compendium” link.

If you haven’t had a chance to look at the “For Judges” or “For Players” tabs yet, we encourage you to do so and provide us with some feedback. The intent is to provide each audience with a short list of essential rulings resources and supplement that with a longer list of useful additional resources.

The Compendium LvX is currently available in two formats, HTML & iSilo (for your PDA). We hope to return to having PDF available soon. Some kind friends of the Compendium have offered to create and upload a PDF, and we’ll be going to that before States if we haven’t completed the project to create it automatically when we update (just like the iSilo version).

The main graphic theme of the site is build around the Compendium Pokédex, created for us by Julia Hedberg, Purity of Pokemon ZEO fame. Matt Riddle, aka Prime on pokegym.net has reworked this ‘dex in vector graphic format, allowing us to use it at various resolutions and giving it a 3D look. And, today, for those with small monitors (or slow connections), we’ve added a second theme to the site (Vesper) and a theme chooser you can use to select it.

We do appreciate webmasters linking to the main Compendium web site. Now that it has its own domain again, that URL shouldn’t change in the future. If you have a link to the old cpdmhome or pkcompendium URLs we appreciate you updating them to http://compendium.pokegym.net .  Whether you’re a webmaster or just have a personal website or social networking page, we encourage you to link to us at the top level address and, if possible, use our cool web button. See the instructions on our “Link Us” page for super-simple copy/paste way to link the Compendium site. We appreciate you linking the site top-level URL, as the URL to the latest Compendium is subject to change.

Thank you for your support of the changes to the Pokemon TCG Rulings Compendium in 2008! We forward to making further improvements to the usability of this compendium of official Pokémon TCG rulings in 2009.

What do you like about it? What would make it more useful?

Be sure to look through all the extra pages, too. Is there a typo? Updated info needed? Something else you’d like to see?

You can respond to Team Compendium in this PokéGym thread

…well, that is, we have a direct link to the Compendium LvX on page one, and the archived older Compendium EX and Compendium are available on a subpage.

In the next few weeks we should have more links, more current resources for players and judges, and more historical content, too.

Please send your comments to compendium @t pokegym dot net