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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8752621" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>You can indeed. Notably you CANNOT buy them now, though.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dndbeyond.com/legacy[/URL]</p><p></p><p>So Volo's and OG Mordenkainen's are just out of commission entirely. You cannot buy them. You cannot buy parts of them. You cannot buy the compendium material (i.e. text). You want anything from them? You gotta find a DM who has them and get them to share with you. So that's a pretty firm line the WotC-owned Beyond are drawing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That doesn't prove your claim re: Essentials being an edition at all. I dunno if you actually played 4E (esp. in the Essentials era), I'm getting the vibe that you didn't, but for something to be a new edition, there need to be rules changes, not merely rules additions. And Essentials only had rules additions - specifically new options, which they <em>went out of their way</em> to make sit ALONGSIDE the existing options. Your comparisons so far on this have been very inapt and suggest you're not familiar with the context of the material you're attempting to describe.</p><p></p><p>There's a reason I don't argue stuff like this about BECMI - I'm ignorant about the period. I'm not saying that's the case with you here, maybe you know tons, but unless you do, maybe consider not arguing something you're unfamiliar with? Not that that ever stopped anyone on the internet!</p><p></p><p>As I've illustrated, the "stand-alone expansion" is a long tradition in board and video games. That what Essentials boils down to. Material that can stand alone or be used in the main game. It has no rules incompatibilities (literally none).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8752621, member: 18"] You can indeed. Notably you CANNOT buy them now, though. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dndbeyond.com/legacy[/URL] So Volo's and OG Mordenkainen's are just out of commission entirely. You cannot buy them. You cannot buy parts of them. You cannot buy the compendium material (i.e. text). You want anything from them? You gotta find a DM who has them and get them to share with you. So that's a pretty firm line the WotC-owned Beyond are drawing. That doesn't prove your claim re: Essentials being an edition at all. I dunno if you actually played 4E (esp. in the Essentials era), I'm getting the vibe that you didn't, but for something to be a new edition, there need to be rules changes, not merely rules additions. And Essentials only had rules additions - specifically new options, which they [I]went out of their way[/I] to make sit ALONGSIDE the existing options. Your comparisons so far on this have been very inapt and suggest you're not familiar with the context of the material you're attempting to describe. There's a reason I don't argue stuff like this about BECMI - I'm ignorant about the period. I'm not saying that's the case with you here, maybe you know tons, but unless you do, maybe consider not arguing something you're unfamiliar with? Not that that ever stopped anyone on the internet! As I've illustrated, the "stand-alone expansion" is a long tradition in board and video games. That what Essentials boils down to. Material that can stand alone or be used in the main game. It has no rules incompatibilities (literally none). [/QUOTE]
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