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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5781251" data-attributes="member: 7006">Come on people... how 'bout we let this term fall by the wayside, huh?  It has too much freaking baggage right now where every time it gets used to describe some part of D&D... the first thought always seems to be "This is the game itself and which everyone will have to use... as everything else that comes after it are 'expansions' which the DM will probably nix."And that seems to be the furthest from the truth of what WotC is saying.Why don't we think of the basic options for character choice/design to be just that?  "Basic modules."  Not "Core modules"... "Basic".  That way, if WotC start off the character creation chapter with the Fighter, Mage, Elf and Dwarf as Basic character selections (with everything about them pre-selected as the most baseline character you can choose) and then follows the chapter up with the "Race & Class Selection" module so you can pick and choose more advanced creation choices... we avoid the whole argument about how Fighter, Mage, Elf and Dwarf are the "Core" of the game, and thus WotC is telling us how our game should be.Because that's not what they mean at all.  We just can never seem to get past what something being "Core" seems to be.  Let's junk it.  The term is not helpful.</blockquote>