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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 6833653" data-attributes="member: 6778044">Yeah, and I'm very glad they didn't. They are a very setting-specific race, and the PHB is presented as the guide to the generic D&D, which they equate to the Forgotten Realms at this point. They were presented in the first Unearthed Arcana post, and Eberron seems to be a popular enough setting that they should do something with it, even if it's a third party that runs with it.I guess that's part of the point of identifying some of the races as more exotic than others. Since they've used the Forgotten Realms as the default, the rarity of a given race is based on the Realms. Had they not settled on FR as the default setting, then the presentation could have been quite different, although they would still have to call out which races existed in a given world, and how common they are. But I think part of the design was to include primarily material that would be used in the majority of the game worlds, either published or home-grown. That of course would largely be based on what core options were given before. Yes, the 4th edition PHB (1) didn't include gnomes and bards. But I suspect the sales of PHB 1 were significantly higher than any of the later releases. And that's really the crux of how they present the PHB to me. A lot of people will only purchase the PHB and nothing else. So including the material that is valid in most games that you join makes the most sense. Which is also why including things such as dragonborn and tieflings is a bit of a problem for me, because even if they are described as "optional", the fact that they are in the core book makes a lot of people treat them as if they are not.Of course, if I had started with 4th edition, I would probably have been annoyed if they weren't included. Ilbranteloth</blockquote>

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