Red Box vs. Essentials vs. PHB

[DracoSuave]

The company that makes D&D now (Wizards of the Coast, aka WotC) has notoriously poor editing standards but in this case they seem to have just shoved the Red Box out the door before lots of final changes.

All rpg companies have notoriously poor editting standards.

Some are worse than others--White wolf had a page in their first Clanbook: Malkavian that specifically made fun of themselves for it. It only said two things:

"PAGE XX"

and

"See: Werewolf: The Apocolypse."

I wouldn't put wizards below most other companies in the industry.

 

[Walking Dad]

...

1) The essentials wizard can take PHB wizard at-wills. Any time you choose from a list of powers with a level, in essentials, you are allowed to take a power from the base class's list as well. On top of that, the PHB wizard has access to the essential wizard's lists... .

Can you please give me the book and page that confirms the above?

 

[Peraion Graufalke]

Can you please give me the book and page that confirms the above?

Heroes of the Fallen Lands, page 57, "Other Sources".

 

[Walking Dad]

Heroes of the Fallen Lands, page 57, "Other Sources".

Many thanks! I missed that.

 

[evilbob]

All rpg companies have notoriously poor editting standards.

I disagree, but it's not a big deal. I think WotC's editing standards were pretty amazing until about 3/4ths of the way through 3.5. Then they suddenly fell off a cliff. I was hoping 4.0 would bring them back, but it unfortunately defined a new low. Small, independent publishers now have much better standards than a flagship (for this industry, anyway) studio.

All that to say: don't be surprised when you see a few inconsistencies and errors, but the difference between the Red Box and later products goes beyond even that.