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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5353322" data-attributes="member: 59082">How so? The Power books (none of which I own, btw) focus on new material, new options for characters. But the Heroes books are Essentialized versions of previously released classes. Sure, there are new options, especially in the form of new builds, but the main purpose of these books--according to what WotC has said--is to bring in new players by providing an easier entry point. In other words, the Essentials stuff is a couple steps removed from the Power books in terms of new material.It is really a matter of degree in terms of "newness" of a book: From  entirely new material on one end of the spectrum to a reprinting of the  same book in different format with little to no adjustments. The bottom  line for me is that the Essentials line, by and large, is too far into  the latter end of the spectrum to make it worth my while, and it is  mildly disappointing in that I like getting a new D&D book once or twice a  month. Right. But "new approaches with monsters" is not exactly the same thing as new monsters, is it? The Monster Vault, btw, is still on my "maybe to buy" list. I'm going to wait and see what people say before canceling my pre-order (which I just did for HotFK and The DM's Kit).  There is a big difference between not offering new material to a very specific and relatively small sub-section of the D&D populace and not providing new material for anyone who doesn't want a new entry point into the game.Furthermore, it is seven months, not six--but that's a minor quibble <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. I have not ignored Heroes of Shadow; in fact, I have used it as one of the bookends of the seven month dry spell--from Psionic Power and the Dark Sun books in August to Heroes of Shadow in March. The eight month period is between hardcovers, with Mordenkainen's in April.I'm not sure what you mean by a "level of specific bias." If I said that Essentials was "simply a rehashing of old content" I should have said "mainly," which is, I think, what I did say--and what I mean. Even WotC has said as much. And yes, I recognize that there is some new material, but it is not a lot and it is mixed in with a lot of revised/reformatted/rehashed versions of old material. This means that someone such as myself, who wants the new material but not the old, has to either buy hundreds of dollars of new books or pay for a month or two of DDI to get updates (if and when they come out). But it isn't that big of a deal, really. I can spend my RPG budget elsewhere and flesh out other aspects of my collection. Now if only I can find an affordable copy of Stars Wars Saga Edition...</blockquote>

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