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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5516672" data-attributes="member: 996">Oh, one more thought on the over-reaction or over-estimation of the impact of Essentials.(This it tin-foil hat stuff, BTW - you've been warned)Essentials is presented as an 'evergreen' 'on-ramp' to the game for new players.  That means that the expectations of those desgining it was for new players to learn the assumptions (tropes, memes, prejudices - however you want to think of it) of the game, from Essentials.  Essentials teaches new players that the most prevelent and iconic of heroic archetypes - the heroic warrior - are simplistic classes that serious players will probably eschew in favor of more complex and interesting (and, eventually, powerful) casters.  Why create an 'on ramp' that perpetuates an obsolete perception of the martial source that new players will just have to un-learn when they move on to pre- and post- Essentials products?  One reason would be that there will ultimately be nothing to un-learn, that it's just the first step in getting the game back to the paradigm in which that perception was true.</blockquote>