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<blockquote data-quote="Steelwill" data-source="post: 5243427" data-attributes="member: 90458">Below is a snippet from an article by Bill Slavicek regarding the Essential's Line and what it represents; &quot;Hi. Welcome to a special free-to-all edition of my regular column.&nbsp;&nbsp; Every week throughout July and August, I’ll be here to tell you about&nbsp;&nbsp; the many exciting things going on around the Dungeons &amp; Dragons&nbsp; brand, including all kinds of details about the upcoming line of&nbsp;&nbsp; Essentials products. What are the Essentials products, you ask? Great&nbsp;&nbsp; question. Let me tell you all about it …Dungeons &amp;&nbsp; Dragons Essential Products&nbsp; Starting in September and rolling&nbsp; out until the end of the year,&nbsp; the Dungeons &amp; Dragons&nbsp; Essentials products consist of 10 key&nbsp; products that form the basis of&nbsp; the roleplaying game system going&nbsp; forward. These 10 key products are&nbsp; designed to be a great place to start&nbsp; your Dungeons &amp; Dragons&nbsp; game experience, as well as being a&nbsp; set of core reference tools for&nbsp; everyone playing the game.&quot;&nbsp; I think the last paragraph immediately above tells the tale, especially the portions I have underlined.&nbsp;&nbsp; Essentials will be 4E rebooted with a new design philosophy, and the legacy material will be compatible, but it will be legacy in all ways going forward.&nbsp;&nbsp; Calling Essentials 4.5, a sub-edition, or a beginner set doesn't matter, it amounts to a new edition of core materials being born based on the above.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steelwill, post: 5243427, member: 90458"] [B]Below is a snippet from an article by Bill Slavicek regarding the Essential's Line and what it represents;[/B] [I]"Hi. Welcome to a special free-to-all edition of my regular column. Every week throughout July and August, I’ll be here to tell you about the many exciting things going on around the [B]Dungeons & Dragons[/B] brand, including all kinds of details about the upcoming line of Essentials products. What are the Essentials products, you ask? Great question. Let me tell you all about it … [B]Dungeons & Dragons Essential Products[/B][/I] [I] Starting in September and rolling out until the end of the year, the [B]Dungeons & Dragons[/B] Essentials products consist of [U]10 key products that form the basis of the roleplaying game system going forward[/U]. These 10 key products are designed to be a great place to start your [B]Dungeons & Dragons[/B] game experience, as well as being [U]a set of core reference tools for everyone playing the game[/U]." [/I] [B]I think the last paragraph immediately above tells the tale, especially the portions I have underlined. Essentials will be 4E rebooted with a new design philosophy, and the legacy material will be compatible, but it will be legacy in all ways going forward. Calling Essentials 4.5, a sub-edition, or a beginner set doesn't matter, it amounts to a new edition of core materials being born based on the above.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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