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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5582410" data-attributes="member: 2067">Y'know, I'm playing a mostly-Essentials home game right now. We've got a Hexblade, a Thief, and an eHunter; and a Paladin from the PHB (with additional options added).It has been so much easier to get the three E people on board with understanding how their character works than it has to get the Paladin on board with the same thing. I've also played Essentials classes in mostly-InEssential parties, though I'm a pretty experienced 4e player by this point. There's not a lot of "tough choices" in Essentials power-use or character-building. IMXP, this is awesome. The purpose mostly seems to be to provide you a no-muss, no-fuss way of being the kind of hero suggested by your class. Thieves get to move adeptly and strike frequently (and with sneak attack!). They don't have to bother performing mild calculus to set up their most iconic ability.This has been great for me as a player and for me as a DM, since it lets the players focus on things aside from their characters' specific powers and abilities. They can pay attention to the plot more. They can pay attention to their personality more. Now, as a disclaimer, I was probably predisposed to liking Essentials -- I'm one of those folks who thinks that 4e's intricate combat complexity is mostly a waste of space, time, and effort, so a simpler, more straightforward design appealed to me from the get-go. So if you're inclined to enjoy 4e's complexity, this might not be such a great thing for you personally. However, part of the greatness, IMO, is that the complexity was reduced at the player level. The DM has about as much complexity as they've ever had, and can design complex combats with difficult tactical options as they always have. And a player who enjoys that can choose a complex class (like the Runepriest) and have lots of options each turn about every little thing. A player who doesn't enjoy that can make a Slayer, pump up their STR, DEX, and CON, and look for a way to make a charge (or take a basic attack) each round. So it only reduces complexity for those who want it reduced -- for those who enjoy Essentials classes. I'm one of those people, but if you're not, the game still has options -- indeed, most of the options in the game -- there for ya. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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