Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 5121252" data-attributes="member: 19998">It depends on the product, WotC is releasing a lot of stuff under the Essentials banner. The unifying idea behind each product seems to be "if you buy this, you will have what you need to use it for it's intended purposed." Something, that, if you think about it, hasn't been true for a lot of 4e products. Take the tiles sets. They're reprints of two previous tile sets that come in a box. Lots of people have said that to use a tile set effectively, you really need two of them. So now WotC is selling two in a box to carry them. And supposedly their supposed to stay in print.Generally the books are smaller,  6” x 9”, and cheeper. The amount of reprint material depends on what you're buying. Rules Compendium: obviously reprint material. (Unless you don't consider errata reprinting.)DM's Kit: Most likely a mixture of both. The kit contains a "256-page book of rules and advice," which could be brand new, reprints from the DMGs and Dragon, or both. Again, the rules are likely reprinted and consolidate.However, the DM's Kit also contains two 32 page adventures. It seems highly unlikely that those are reprints.Monster Vault: Iconic D&D monsters. Sounds like this will be a high reprint book. However, it has tokens and a 32 page adventure using monsters from the book. Intriguing. What's more intriguing is that the adventure from the Red Box, DM's Kit, Monster Vault are interconnected.Heroes of the Fallen Lands and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms: The solicitation for these products specifically say that they contains new builds and powers for the classes inside. This includes new paragon paths and new epic destinies. Given that books are 6” x 9”, 352 pages, and that powers take up a lot of space, I'm thinking that these books will be mostly new material.</blockquote>

Verification