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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5351306" data-attributes="member: 7006">And the one other thing you folks whining about how Essentials and/or the new Class Compendium is an all-new 3.5 have to remember is this...When WotC created 3.5, they told everybody that from that point forward, everything they were going to release was going to be for 3.5 ONLY.  They would no longer be supporting 3.0.  Any new product or adventures would be designed under the assumption you were using the 3.5 rules.  If you stuck with 3.0, you were plum out of luck with official WotC products.But right now with 4E, that is NOT the case.  WotC is designing, developing and producing product for both Core and Essentials uses.  For many product it doesn't matter anyway because Essentials changes only encompass Character design... and thus any product involving adventures, monsters, traps, terrain, treasure and other stuff in the DM-purview works for Core-only, Essentials-only, or Coressential games anyway.  And for the things that are character related... most of those get used by both types of games as well.  They both use feats, they both use backgrounds, they both will eventually use themes, and they both use most powers.  So it's only the rarest of cases when something WotC produces cannot be used by both of the two types of games.  And these few things include like Daily Martial powers, or Essential level abilities.  (But then again, for all we know, the Class Compendium will be giving us rules so that we CAN use those in both types of game.)So lets all keep a hold of the reality a little bit more, shall we?</blockquote>

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