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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 5316235" data-attributes="member: 43283">Errr... You're wrong. BECMI (D&D) predated AD&D. AD&D came along years after D&D was already out there. While it took time for all of BECMI (and the eventual Rules Cyclopedia) to show up, they were 2 seperate game lines that were related.Essentials is going about that backwards.As well, everything I've heard indicates that while Essentials itself might be a limited product line, the design philosophies behind it will power 4e moving forward. So instead of maintaing 2 different gamelines (like before), you've got a set of side product and the main product will continue that way, even though the side product is limited it terms of total number produced under that line.The main relation "Essentials" has to old stuff, is WotC's successful attempt to cash in on nostalgia. Linking it to the tried and true BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia was apparently smart (it could have blown up in their face).Unless WotC changes its tune and declares the Essentials line so successful that they're going to continue churning out product for it. In which case they then have competing gamelines (like before) and it gets even harder to believe (most) 4e fans claim that Essentials isn't another edition.</blockquote>