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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 5246182" data-attributes="member: 5143">Yeah, I kind of get the impression that what he means by the &quot;separate pathway into the game&quot; is that you can buy all the Essentials books and still play 4e.&nbsp; Albeit without access to the old version of the classes.That means that the Essentials books have to reprint any &quot;necessary&quot; feats in order to make sure you don't need to refer to the other PHBs.&nbsp; Either that or to build the classes in such a way that those &quot;necessary&quot; feats are no longer necessary.&nbsp; Maybe the Essentials classes have built in feat bonuses to hit as class features(so that they can't stack them with Expertise if they should happen to buy PHB2).But after all of the Essentials books are done being printed, they can go back to printing some new books that are not part of the Essentials line.&nbsp; Although, I believe they will still follow the new standards set by Essentials in the same way that all monsters in the MM3 were created using the new monster creation rules.&nbsp; It means that some monsters in MM1 are a little obsolete because they might not have enough powers or they do too little damage.&nbsp; In that same way, some of the old classes might become a little bit obsolete.The MM3 doesn't prevent the MM1 from being used or from being compatible with 4e, but it does set a new(and better) standard for monsters.&nbsp; I believe the Essentials books will be the same thing for classes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 5246182, member: 5143"] Yeah, I kind of get the impression that what he means by the "separate pathway into the game" is that you can buy all the Essentials books and still play 4e. Albeit without access to the old version of the classes. That means that the Essentials books have to reprint any "necessary" feats in order to make sure you don't need to refer to the other PHBs. Either that or to build the classes in such a way that those "necessary" feats are no longer necessary. Maybe the Essentials classes have built in feat bonuses to hit as class features(so that they can't stack them with Expertise if they should happen to buy PHB2). But after all of the Essentials books are done being printed, they can go back to printing some new books that are not part of the Essentials line. Although, I believe they will still follow the new standards set by Essentials in the same way that all monsters in the MM3 were created using the new monster creation rules. It means that some monsters in MM1 are a little obsolete because they might not have enough powers or they do too little damage. In that same way, some of the old classes might become a little bit obsolete. The MM3 doesn't prevent the MM1 from being used or from being compatible with 4e, but it does set a new(and better) standard for monsters. I believe the Essentials books will be the same thing for classes. [/QUOTE]

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