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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 5260007" data-attributes="member: 7220">Actually, I hadn't seen that cover.  Is that the new one?  <a href="http://critical-hits.com/2010/01/29/dd-xp-2010-dungeons-dragons-essentials/" target="_blank">This</a> was the one I was aware of, which has no mention of it being a starter set.  If that's the case, then that's much better.  But come on, let's be honest here.  Essentials is being marketed just as much to the existing player base as to the newbies.  They're hoping to sell us a whole new set of books with redone versions of the existing classes.That is indeed the company line.  But it doesn't take much to make it de facto false, even if WotC claims otherwise.  If the game continues to evolve along the Essentials line, and the monsters continue to evolve along with them, it becomes increasingly difficult to work in the new stuff with the old material.  3.0 was supposed to be compatible with 3.5 too.  And with the players, if Essentials stuff is just plain better, you better believe that it will make the old classes obsolete.  How far does the game have to stray before it's basically a new edition, regardless of the company line?I don't see anything from the release of Dark Sun to April that is a regular 4E product, except for possibly Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium.  I don't think we know what that is exactly yet.  Maybe Heroes of Shadow?  Maybe not.  A year might have been an exaggeration, but it might not be.  There's a solid 8 months until the next possible non-essentials product.  And we're not even certain of that.  As was said earlier in the thread, where's Arcane Power 2?Yeah, that was about Gamma World.</blockquote>

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