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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9476084" data-attributes="member: 23751">I expect that the astral is present in all of those places, but is unknown and/or inaccessible.  That would include the MtG settings.That's a cool idea. That they are optional for settings is correct. However, it's not really accurate that it's optional in the book. You and I have no ability to decide whether it's in the PHB or not. It's inclusion or exclusion is non-optional.  Whether we decide to use half-elves or not doesn't affect whether half-elves are in the game(different from setting).  If they are in the PHB, they are in the game no matter what we want for our personal games/settings.  The same goes if they are excluded.I haven't seen that language.  Someone in this thread did quote language that did not say that, but rather they assumed that the language meant that players could go back and pick from 5e.Can you quote the passage that explicitly says that so that I can see it.Not to a setting, but to the rules, yes there are.  Every race in the 5.5e PHB is a default race for the 5.5e game.</blockquote>