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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5285676" data-attributes="member: 59082">I've been on a few-month hiatus from all things RPG-related, including playing, reading these boards, and paying attention to the RPG industry in general, so forgive me if all of this has been discussed ad nauseum already. I've just spent the last half hour or so investigating this &quot;D&amp;D Essentials&quot; creature that's arrival is imminent; I had heard of it previously, not long after it was announced earlier in the year, but since then much more information is available. And from what I've gathered in my admittedly brief investigation, an impression has formed and that is: let's call a spade a spade--this is D&amp;D 4.5E, folks. If I am wrong, how am I wrong? How is this not 4.5? And if it is, how is WotC rationalizing it when they clearly said that there would be no 4.5?All that said, I'm pre-ordering the box set. From what I can gather it stream-lines 4E and tidies up some of the mess. I'm not opposed to 4.5, but let's just call it what it is: a simplified, streamlined core 4th edition from which everything else is secondary and optional. If I'm right about my impression, this is the modular model I think WotC should have followed from the beginning of 4E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5285676, member: 59082"] I've been on a few-month hiatus from all things RPG-related, including playing, reading these boards, and paying attention to the RPG industry in general, so forgive me if all of this has been discussed ad nauseum already. I've just spent the last half hour or so investigating this "D&D Essentials" creature that's arrival is imminent; I had heard of it previously, not long after it was announced earlier in the year, but since then much more information is available. And from what I've gathered in my admittedly brief investigation, an impression has formed and that is: let's call a spade a spade--this is D&D 4.5E, folks. If I am wrong, how am I wrong? How is this [I]not [/I]4.5? And if it is, how is WotC rationalizing it when they clearly said that there would be no 4.5? All that said, I'm pre-ordering the box set. From what I can gather it stream-lines 4E and tidies up some of the mess. I'm not opposed to 4.5, but let's just call it what it is: a simplified, streamlined core 4th edition from which everything else is secondary and optional. If I'm right about my impression, this is the modular model I think WotC should have followed from the beginning of 4E. [/QUOTE]

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