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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9847975" data-attributes="member: 58172">For 3e, I used the 3e SRD as the core, and absolutely anything else was an opt-in splatbook, even the Players Handbook and Monster Manual. The only book we did adopt fully was the Expanded Psionic Handbook. 4e said &quot;all rules are core&quot;, and we played that way freely incorporating Dragon articles alongside various books. 5e 2014 said only the three books are core: Players Handbook, Monster Manual, and DMs Guide. But we were happy with Xanathars and Tashas and treated those as canon too. We also incorporated the indy class, LaserLlama's Psion, which is excellent. 5e 2024 said only the three books are core: PH, MM, DMG. But these rules force a choice of setting. So we consider the setting book to necessarily be the &quot;fourth&quot; core rulebook. The setting book can be the DMG Greyhawk setting, or Forgotten Realms books, or Eberron, or Magic The Gathering Strixhaven, or a homebrew in progress. But there must be some choice of setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9847975, member: 58172"] For 3e, I used the 3e SRD as the core, and absolutely anything else was an opt-in splatbook, even the Players Handbook and Monster Manual. The only book we did adopt fully was the Expanded Psionic Handbook. 4e said "all rules are core", and we played that way freely incorporating Dragon articles alongside various books. 5e 2014 said only the three books are core: Players Handbook, Monster Manual, and DMs Guide. But we were happy with Xanathars and Tashas and treated those as canon too. We also incorporated the indy class, LaserLlama's Psion, which is excellent. 5e 2024 said only the three books are core: PH, MM, DMG. But these rules force a choice of setting. So we consider the setting book to necessarily be the "fourth" core rulebook. The setting book can be the DMG Greyhawk setting, or Forgotten Realms books, or Eberron, or Magic The Gathering Strixhaven, or a homebrew in progress. But there must be some choice of setting. [/QUOTE]

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