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<blockquote data-quote="CandyLaser" data-source="post: 9347595" data-attributes="member: 7029413"><p>What counts as &quot;unique&quot; changes over time. If I tell someone I'm starting a D&amp;D campaign and provide no more information, I think that most players would come to the table with the very reasonable assumption that they can use the things in the book. When I started playing some 35 years ago with 2e, that meant dwarves, elves, gnomes, half-elfs, halflings, and humans. Supplements added a lot of options, to be sure, but they weren't part of the core. 3e expanded that, and 4e and 5e have continued the trend. Drow went from &quot;not suitable for PCs&quot; to &quot;unique oddities like Drizzt&quot; over the course of 2e, and are in the core in 5e. Tieflings were normal for Planescape in 2e and core in 4e and 5e. Certainly, DMs can restrict what's available at their tables, but having a player want to be a drow or tiefling in 5e is a different thing than wanting to be a drow in 2e.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="CandyLaser, post: 9347595, member: 7029413"] What counts as "unique" changes over time. If I tell someone I'm starting a D&D campaign and provide no more information, I think that most players would come to the table with the very reasonable assumption that they can use the things in the book. When I started playing some 35 years ago with 2e, that meant dwarves, elves, gnomes, half-elfs, halflings, and humans. Supplements added a lot of options, to be sure, but they weren't part of the core. 3e expanded that, and 4e and 5e have continued the trend. Drow went from "not suitable for PCs" to "unique oddities like Drizzt" over the course of 2e, and are in the core in 5e. Tieflings were normal for Planescape in 2e and core in 4e and 5e. Certainly, DMs can restrict what's available at their tables, but having a player want to be a drow or tiefling in 5e is a different thing than wanting to be a drow in 2e. [/QUOTE]

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