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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 5353220" data-attributes="member: 16069">I'm a little confused by the 4.5 thing, I DM a group of players who (4 out of 5) have never played any D&D (or any RPG) previously to our present game.We're porting over (I guess), slowly-ish to Essentials, although the only thing that seems to have changed for us is a few of the Powers, like Magic Missile, admittedly while I've got all the new Essentials books/supplements I haven't got round to reading them yet (time is hard to come-by).I/We play WOTC/Goodman Games scenarios mostly (basically all bought modules).As far as I can tell the difference between 4e and 4e Essentials, i.e. the things I have to convert and/or do differently is... nada, nothing.If we decide to roll up new PCs then some of them are going to get a new flavour, is that it?Am I missing something here?My biggest gripe is with the change with Monsters (updates DMG2 & MM3), I'm dying for an update to something that tells me what the new official line is for all the bad guys- I want an updated Monster Compendium thing.Sorry to appear ignorant, I'd like the CB with Dark Sun so we can build characters there but as for Essentials... What changes are we talking about here to the actual game mechanics that necessitate people choosing an edition (4e Core, 4.5e or 4e Essentials; whatever you want to call it)?Goonalan</blockquote>