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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5268834" data-attributes="member: 71571">I don't understand how it is obsfucatory.Now, you could make the claim that it is obsfucatory if they didn't put out previews, and when essentials comes out, you see that it completely invalidates everything that came before, and that it is completely incompatible......but really.  Let's be absolutely rational here.Let's assume that Essentials is not a complete game overhaul, that it is just a stripped down starter product with some value to the larger consumer, and that it is fully compatible with the earlier product.Now.How can you say that without it seeming obsfucating?  Short of releasing the whole book, what could they possibly do to show you this is not the case?Really.Think about that a moment.The reason I'm not losing my head over this is because they've released this sort of product before.  Both TSR -and- Wizards have traditionally liked to create entry level versions of their products.  This isn't exactly new, the idea of an entry level product into Dungeons and Dragons is as old as... well... the product itself.The only difference I see this time is that they've made the products alternative builds and ways of playing classes, some of which certain players have asked for and demanded.  So not only have they made a started product, they've also made class variants that are designed to appeal to certain customers who feel the desire for those variants.That's all it is.  They've been up front about this the entire time.  This is how they've presented it from day 1.I don't understand what they are obsfucating here.  The only obsfucation I see is a lot of people's anti-corporate bias obsfucating their grasp of history and current affairs.  Wizards is NOT a company prone to obsfucating or misdirecting customers.  It never has been, and there's no reason to see it doing so in the future.  Oh, it can change its mind from time to time, but every corporation does that; that's not a betrayal of the customers when it's done openly.  Wizards is a -very- transparent company, and the only way you can believe otherwise is if you're not actually paying attention to it.And yeah, I'll even bet my avatar on it.</blockquote>

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