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<blockquote data-quote="Thac0 the Barbarian" data-source="post: 5651172" data-attributes="member: 92436"><p>Not that I would count myself as a huge market, (although I spend more money than I should <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) but I actually got back into playing d&amp;d after a hiatus during 3rd edition due to the release of essentials.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am a bright analytical fellow ( a physician in fact) but I admit I suffered from a version of the &quot;analysis paralysis&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; The ability to have fewer choices of the powers I would use allowed me to focus on the other tactical elements of combat (positioning etc.). The fact that the essential classes gained abilities at different rates and with different formats made them feel more distinct to me than the aedu classes did and I've had a great time playing them.&nbsp; While it is certainly true that the pleural of anecdotes is not data, in my case WOTC got several hundred dollars out of me that they would not have gotten without essentials.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Thac0 the Barbarian, post: 5651172, member: 92436"] Not that I would count myself as a huge market, (although I spend more money than I should :) ) but I actually got back into playing d&d after a hiatus during 3rd edition due to the release of essentials. I am a bright analytical fellow ( a physician in fact) but I admit I suffered from a version of the "analysis paralysis". The ability to have fewer choices of the powers I would use allowed me to focus on the other tactical elements of combat (positioning etc.). The fact that the essential classes gained abilities at different rates and with different formats made them feel more distinct to me than the aedu classes did and I've had a great time playing them. While it is certainly true that the pleural of anecdotes is not data, in my case WOTC got several hundred dollars out of me that they would not have gotten without essentials. [/QUOTE]

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