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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3780620" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'm not sure if you can actually say that.  It's not that it was inadequate, it's that issues have arisen over time that weren't recognized when the books were released.  The whole Polymorph mess is a good example.  As the game goes through the grinder of players playing, issues are going to get squeezed out that weren't anticipated or even considered at the time of writing.While 3e may have made "Core" the basic three books, that wasn't true in previous editions.  So, the meaning of Core has certainly changed over time.  The definition of "Core" was specifically spelled out in the 3e PHB and that's the definition that most people have used.  Previously, Core didn't have much meaning at all.Now, Core is going to refer to any non-campaign specific book.  Cool.  It's not like it's really that hard to remember.As far as confusing new players, well, I'm fairly certain that if I were a new player, looking at the shelves at my FLGS and I saw three books: Players Handbook I, Player's Handbook II and Player's Handbook III, I could likely figure out which one comes first.After all, I haven't heard too many stories of players being confused now, despite the existences of two PHB's, two DMG's and five Monster Manuals.  I'm willing to have a little more faith in my fellow man.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Henry - I think, and this is only my opinion, that what you will see is that setting specific material will be much more integrated into the setting than previously.  Things like Affiliations and the like are going to directly reference certain campaign specific classes, making it much more difficult (although not impossible) to extricate it from the setting.</blockquote>

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