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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6073898" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, from what I understand the core books were the best sellers EVER. There was a lot of pent up desire for a new edition obviously. They reprinted at least the PHB1 twice after the first run, and yeah, I get the feeling they overshot on that last print run a bunch. It seemed like Essentials was partly a &quot;How can we revise the game without actually technically scrapping our core book inventory?&quot; move. I think Essentials was a horrible mistake. I like a lot of the content, but the organization was BAD, the redundancy was irritating, and the whole thing totally confused anyone coming into the game for the first time. They'd have been MUCH better off issuing a &quot;4.5&quot; revision of the core books. Drop out a giant errata to the 4.0 books on DDI at the same time and just eat the bullet. It would have made the whole product line much easier to market. Honestly it might even have been worth doing a deep enough cleanup of the core mechanics to break compatibility while keeping things mostly the same. I dunno.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6073898, member: 82106"] Well, from what I understand the core books were the best sellers EVER. There was a lot of pent up desire for a new edition obviously. They reprinted at least the PHB1 twice after the first run, and yeah, I get the feeling they overshot on that last print run a bunch. It seemed like Essentials was partly a "How can we revise the game without actually technically scrapping our core book inventory?" move. I think Essentials was a horrible mistake. I like a lot of the content, but the organization was BAD, the redundancy was irritating, and the whole thing totally confused anyone coming into the game for the first time. They'd have been MUCH better off issuing a "4.5" revision of the core books. Drop out a giant errata to the 4.0 books on DDI at the same time and just eat the bullet. It would have made the whole product line much easier to market. Honestly it might even have been worth doing a deep enough cleanup of the core mechanics to break compatibility while keeping things mostly the same. I dunno. [/QUOTE]

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