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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 8437699" data-attributes="member: 6667921">Looking back now, I have come to appreciate Essentials better for some of its innovations and interpretations of the original core design. I could easily take the core Essential products as-is today and enjoy a full campaign with just a handful of pocket-sized books and a few select articles from Dungeon/Dragon magazines of the time. That in itself is worth my consideration. Back when it came out, however, I wasn't much of a fan.My biggest complaint was the new class designs and how (I felt) the company shoved them down everybody's throat. I didn't care if they were compatible with the pre-Essential materials or not. The point was that we were told that it would be wrong to reject them. These were the new toys that we made so the new kids will want to play, so you're going to play with them, too. In fact, when you're in public (i.e. organized play and conventions), you were no longer allowed to play with your old toys. That was the end of my DM run for Encounters and conventions.</blockquote>