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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 5599680" data-attributes="member: 1106">Yet thousands of people have done exactly that when they saw the themes and flavor of 4E.  I know I did.This is a big detail.  The implied setting paints worlds.  Do you want to play in a world with dragonborn, eladrin, warlords and tieflings in it as a core theme, or a world with dwarves, elves, clerics and magic-users in it as a core theme?  The implied setting decides that for you, because your players will be playing those classes and races.  If you don't like it, and it's in the core PHB, you either ban it (annoying and inconvenient) or walk away from that vision of D&D.Many people have walked away.  It's hard to rule out that this still might not be on WOTC's radar if Mearls is talking about mechanics as "the road home".</blockquote>