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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5370579" data-attributes="member: 40177">Not to be a stickler here, but I never said Essentials will change your sorcerer or whatever.&nbsp; I said it will change how the game is presented and played going forward.&nbsp; This is exactly the same situation as the 3e/3.5e split.&nbsp; Your 3e fighter can be played in 3.5e rules, and there'd be only a few tweaks that may or may not come up.&nbsp; Note that I am not saying &quot;Essentials is 4.5e&quot;!&nbsp; What I am saying, in this case, is that Essentials is a revision of sorts to the 4e rules... just as 3.5e was to the third edition rule set, and Skills &amp; Powers was for 2.5E, and Unearthed Arcana was in 1e.&nbsp; Really, all of those products have big enough changes to the game that people either have to mention they're playing with those rules in effect, or (if those rule changes are ubiquitous) if they're playing in a ruleset before the rules change.&nbsp; Essentials is that change for 4e... I would honestly compare it more to Skills and Powers in how it impacted the game, as opposed to 3.5E to 3E... in that Essentials is a reimagining of character creation rules for a game that stays more or less the same.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 5370579, member: 40177"] Not to be a stickler here, but I never said Essentials will change your sorcerer or whatever. I said it will change how the game is presented and played going forward. This is exactly the same situation as the 3e/3.5e split. Your 3e fighter can be played in 3.5e rules, and there'd be only a few tweaks that may or may not come up. Note that I am not saying "Essentials is 4.5e"! What I am saying, in this case, is that Essentials is a revision of sorts to the 4e rules... just as 3.5e was to the third edition rule set, and Skills & Powers was for 2.5E, and Unearthed Arcana was in 1e. Really, all of those products have big enough changes to the game that people either have to mention they're playing with those rules in effect, or (if those rule changes are ubiquitous) if they're playing in a ruleset before the rules change. Essentials is that change for 4e... I would honestly compare it more to Skills and Powers in how it impacted the game, as opposed to 3.5E to 3E... in that Essentials is a reimagining of character creation rules for a game that stays more or less the same. [/QUOTE]

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