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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 3793935" data-attributes="member: 53">Quote]Of course, it wasn't "solidly defined" before D&D, either.  It could be the center of something (say an apple) or a cylindrical sample drawn from something to show layers, a lump of stone from which tools were made, etc.  Words have different usages.The complication here is that the various definitions are used close together.  I very well might want to discuss the "core books" (PHB, MM & DMG) in the same discussion as I discuss the "core books" (all WotC D&D supplements that aren't campaign specific).  Both are reasonable definitions of the word, but using them together doesn't help clarity.  We need a word to replace the others.I think this holds together well.  The big issue that I'm surprised hasn't been discussed more is about what will go into the SRD.  That's really important.Consider something I mentioned in another thread last night.  We know that there will only be 8 classes in the PHB.  What if a 3rd party publisher wants to update a product to 4E where a sect of druids is important and druids are in the PHB, and only the PHB classes make it to the SRD?  More than likely that publisher will make their own "druid," and this will be repeated for most publishers (with a few sharing designs).  We'll have more "druids" than we had "rangers" in 3.0!Because of this, I expect that the 4E SRD will be drawing from a lot of sources.  Maybe they will all be collected in the yearly PHB, MM & DMG and we'll get an annual update of the SRD with all or most of the updates.</blockquote>

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