@tikk: it's not that i don't like essentials - in truth i've never read them. i just don't want to spend money for almost the same thing i already have and know. what new format in the fall? will essentials be replaced or not officially allowed?
[MENTION=83250]null[/MENTION]: exactly - once i get to lvl2, i HAVE to buy the essentials book(s) or subscribe to ddi.
on the format - i like the physically smaller version; i don't like rules repeated in both; i don't like needing 2 books to have the "standard" classes - fighter, rogue, cleric, wizard, ranger.
[MENTION=83250]null[/MENTION]: exactly - once i get to lvl2, i HAVE to buy the essentials book(s) or subscribe to ddi.
on the format - i like the physically smaller version; i don't like rules repeated in both; i don't like needing 2 books to have the "standard" classes - fighter, rogue, cleric, wizard, ranger.