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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4932606" data-attributes="member: 5143">Most people used "core" in the 3e era to mean PHB/DMG/MM.  I never had any particular need to ever use the word "core" myself.  I only ever referred to D&D books and 3rd party books.  If something was published by WOTC, there was never any need for us to disallow it simply because it wasn't in the first book to come out.Because if you want to say "Just classes in the PHB", you can say that.  There's already a point of reference for that sort of thing.  It seems the entire desire to have "core" as a term is to be able to refer to anything that isn't core as somehow "not part of the game" and to win arguments.</blockquote>