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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 5269289" data-attributes="member: 60075">I'm interested in the staying power of Essentials (and so, I think is WotC). If the past two years have taught us anything, it's that the PHB didn't have much staying power. By the time the PHB 1+2 Gift Set was released, a common reaction was '... oh, you didn't include the latest errata in the PHB 1 printing... I won't buy it then'. The idea being that people are happy to buy stuff it it's completely up-to-date, and less happy to play an outdated product. So it appears that the upcoming Rules Compendium is like a solid buy and everyone's next purchase.Except then you realize that today's Rules Compendium is tomorrow's outdated PHB 1.So the staying power of Essentials will depend substantially on WotC' forward going errata policy. If they release poorly playtested material in the Essentials "Heroes of..." books and have to re-write stuff from scratch again... then of course these books will have limited shelf life. If, on the other hand, they release poorly playtested material and just refuse to errata it then people might not be convinced by the quality of the material. So the only hopeful alternative is to think that the Essentials builds up to Heroes of Shadow and beyond got as much and as solid playtesting as did 4.0. Well, if you're one of the 4.Essentials playtesters for the new classes, please raise your hand.</blockquote>