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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9555220" data-attributes="member: 20564">Lore is actively harmful in a core book.&nbsp; It cannot be correct for all settings, and therefore is misleading.&quot;Sorry, my halflings are dino-riding outback tribesmen, all that lore about civilized homebody community agrarians who have a lot of meals is just wrong.&quot;Lore belongs with settings.&nbsp; And those settings can have additional rules to support the settings.&nbsp; But core books shouldn't have lore.&nbsp; Or if they do, clearly mark it in every single case with the setting it is associated with, presented clearly as an example and not as a generic descriptor.I am answering this in the context of being asked about the 2024 core books in a D&amp;D forum, considering D&amp;D is a big tent game with dozens of official and 3pp worlds plus encouragement for homebrew.&nbsp; For single/primary setting RPGs like Blades in the Dark that's a different story.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9555220, member: 20564"] Lore is actively harmful in a core book. It [I]cannot[/I] be correct for all settings, and therefore is misleading. "Sorry, my halflings are dino-riding outback tribesmen, all that lore about civilized homebody community agrarians who have a lot of meals is just wrong." Lore belongs with settings. And those settings can have additional rules to support the settings. But core books shouldn't have lore. Or if they do, clearly mark it in every single case with the setting it is associated with, presented clearly as an example and not as a generic descriptor. I am answering this in the context of being asked about the 2024 core books in a D&D forum, considering D&D is a big tent game with dozens of official and 3pp worlds plus encouragement for homebrew. For single/primary setting RPGs like Blades in the Dark that's a different story. [/QUOTE]

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