charlesatan
Explorer
Just to clarify and cut off the weed before it spreads, the recent podcast was summarized in the boards and one point mentioned was that "The meaning of "Core: will include expansions and D&D Insider materials, not just the first three books."
Before everyone quotes Mike Mearls and Dave Noonan on that, I'd like to clarify the context before everyone starts ranting "they're out for our money!" or "WotC is getting greedy!"
The question asked was this: What classes and races can you confirm will be in 4th Edition?
They then proceeded to say that people have two definitions of core. One is the three initial books (PHB, DMG, MM). That definition is fine. The other definition is that core means all non-setting specific supplements. Obviously, not everyone uses the latter definition but some do to different extents. It's occurred in 3.0/3.5 and some people's definition of "core" include the Psionics rules or "anything in the SRD" (which includes material from the Epic Level Handbook, Manual of the Planes, and Deities and Demigods).
What the designers are basically saying is that if you're looking forward to Race XX or Class XX, it might not be initially in the first three books released next year, but they might pop up in future supplements like the DI or some other product (PHB II perhaps?) so it's "core" if your definition of core happens to include the non-setting specific supplements and not just the first three books released.
Before everyone quotes Mike Mearls and Dave Noonan on that, I'd like to clarify the context before everyone starts ranting "they're out for our money!" or "WotC is getting greedy!"
The question asked was this: What classes and races can you confirm will be in 4th Edition?
They then proceeded to say that people have two definitions of core. One is the three initial books (PHB, DMG, MM). That definition is fine. The other definition is that core means all non-setting specific supplements. Obviously, not everyone uses the latter definition but some do to different extents. It's occurred in 3.0/3.5 and some people's definition of "core" include the Psionics rules or "anything in the SRD" (which includes material from the Epic Level Handbook, Manual of the Planes, and Deities and Demigods).
What the designers are basically saying is that if you're looking forward to Race XX or Class XX, it might not be initially in the first three books released next year, but they might pop up in future supplements like the DI or some other product (PHB II perhaps?) so it's "core" if your definition of core happens to include the non-setting specific supplements and not just the first three books released.
