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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlexS" data-source="post: 4527114" data-attributes="member: 66286">But your campaign isn't forced into allowing wuxia dragonborn katana-wielding warlocks if you (the DM) don't want them to be there. Yes, they're in the PHB. So what? If you want sword and sorcery, drop all the non-martial classes and races other than human, and have adventures against snake cults and so on. If you want ultra-spiffy magic fantasy, but can't stand dragonborn, then it's your perogative as a DM. If you want more subtle tieflings, then reskin them however you like.  Why would you need separate books for this? I reckon it'd be a pain in the ass- you'd have to buy dear knows how many books to run whatever campaigns you wanted, players wouldn't necessarily have the PHB you were using, and the arguments about what is 'core' would increase exponentially.  I don't believe that the 4e books force you into an implied setting at all- if you're an experienced DM, you'll be used to ignoring what you don't like and playing up what you reckon is important. If you're a complete n00b, then it does some of the work for you as regards worldbuilding. What's wrong with that? Perhaps if you had a much more generic system like True20, which allows you to add your own flavour to them, you could keep the core rules the same and release a bunch of setting books telling you how to use them differently. Would that be more acceptable?</blockquote>