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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9735471" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Let me tell you a story from the Before Times, in the long distant year of 2000, when all we had was use.net as the main communication for D&D fans. On a warm day in August, the 3e PHB was released. I went and got mine from my FLGS, and paged through it while having dinner on the Wendy's on the way home. Oh look! They've flipped AC and replaced THAC0! They've standardized stat bonuses! All sorts of interesting new things to talk about! So when I got home and popped on my dial-up, I was expecting to talk about all these new exciting changes and features. But, sadly, no. Basically a lot of posts were not about the new changes, for good or ill, but people freaking out about what the PHB did not say. The PHB didn't mention drow! So, logically drow would not be in 3e! And whole swathes of similar things not mentioned in the PHB, which meant surely they were gone forever. Logically, they would be (and actually were) in the DMG or MM. But those hadn't been released yet, so some people were just letting their fears take over their imaginations instead admitting they were going off incomplete information. Oddly enough, there were few retractions or admissions of overreacting when, you know, drow actually ended up appearing in the 3e MM.So it was, and still is, and indeed ever shall be.</blockquote>