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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8573905" data-attributes="member: 7635">What you're seeing is the first cracks of AD&D not being a unified system, but a collection of vaguely compatible RPGs that share some common assets. It's a trend that helps balkenize 2nd edition into all the various lines that helped speed TSRs failure. Ever since WotC made 3e, there has been a trend to include as much of the base game into each setting as possible. That has meant that world-specific variants and the omission of class options have overwhelmingly gone by the wayside. This was true even in 3e's versions of Dragonlance, Ravenloft, (by Arthaus) and Dark Sun (by Paizo for Dragon). As policy, if the phrase "there is no X in setting Y" has X as anything but a race or a monster, you can safely assume it is no longer valid. (And even then, don't assume something that came after that setting publication, like tieflings or dragonborn, might but be added retroactively).</blockquote>