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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5044195" data-attributes="member: 82106">There have been a lot of suggestions but no word on what WotC is actually putting in. Its always possible that PHB3 will only include the 3 known races. I think this IS a possibility. Consider, they've already done a pretty good set of core races. Several others have come out in FR and Eberron. A couple of others have been released as DDI content. Obviously in theory you can keep releasing monstrous races or just entirely new races forever, but at some point they become redundant and not really needed in the core system. Further I'd think they want to keep something for PHB4 next year. So they could easily limit it to 3 races, the number 4 is not special.Honestly one has to begin to wonder about other content as well. It sounds like there will be enough material left unexplored after PHB3 to eek out a PHB4 but its getting to the point now where pretty much everything mapped out at 4e launch is likely to be in our hands at that point in terms of mechanics and in fact PHB3 looks like it will be there to a substantial degree less perhaps a couple psionic classes and the rest of shadow. One begins to wonder how they'll fill enough page content for these later books. Given that WotC cut back on staff that may well signal that they too are a bit short of ideas for more core material beyond PHB3.</blockquote>