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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 5997037" data-attributes="member: 22260">On Essentials...They were marketed as new entry products that were fully 4E. But could also replace it. If that is clear.There was substantial and long going (and seemingly never ending) errata to pre essentials 4E to bring it in line with essentials...so compatibility was maintained, in a way. There are player options in Essentials that are strictly superior to those in pre Essentials material, even with all the errata. The Essentials Rules Compendium did replace the PHB and DMG as a rules reference. The Essentials Monster Vault did replace the Monster Manual (and beat it up and took its lunch money and looked good doing it). To use Essentials materials you had to use a later, online version of the Character Builder and Monster Builder (these are important in the 4E context).If you looked at one of the Essentials "Hero of" books and the PHB, you would see more differences between them, then, say, the 1E and 2E PHBs.Of course...pre essentials options remained popular, and as time went on, WotC got back to supporting that, or at least some of it. So I guess you could say it was not a "new" edition...but it was something.</blockquote>