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<blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 5266128" data-attributes="member: 38357">I'm buying the Essentials products, in fact I'm getting kind of impatient for some new books to read. I am a bit underwhelmed by some of the design choices (but I haven't actually seen them in play so that could change), and honestly all of the previews and subsequent (over?-) reactions to them gets me down. It seems like the new sub-classes will integrate well into 4e, and they may even be easier to play, but having them alongside the original options is going to be a bit confusing.I'm already seeing this now that Psionics has crept into my game, as it's taken about two months to get to the point where power points are actually getting spent on a regular basis. Hopefully (and I am pretty hopeful, actually) the Essentials books will have enough material, and be balanced well enough that they are largely self-contained. The you're only looking outside those books (which should only contain viable options) for a limited amount of stuff, which makes catching things (I'm thinking in particular of anything that modifies a range of powers that your build gives up; like options that improve encounter powers being useless for a power-point using Psionic class) that won't work that much easier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kaomera, post: 5266128, member: 38357"] I'm buying the Essentials products, in fact I'm getting kind of impatient for some new books to read. I am a bit underwhelmed by some of the design choices (but I haven't actually seen them in play so that could change), and honestly all of the previews and subsequent (over?-) reactions to them gets me down. It seems like the new sub-classes will integrate well into 4e, and they may even be easier to play, but having them alongside the original options is going to be a bit confusing. I'm already seeing this now that Psionics has crept into my game, as it's taken about two months to get to the point where power points are actually getting spent on a regular basis. Hopefully (and I am pretty hopeful, actually) the Essentials books will have enough material, and be balanced well enough that they are largely self-contained. The you're only looking outside those books (which should only contain viable options) for a limited amount of stuff, which makes catching things (I'm thinking in particular of anything that modifies a range of powers that your build gives up; like options that improve encounter powers being useless for a power-point using Psionic class) that won't work that much easier. [/QUOTE]

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