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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5812956" data-attributes="member: 2067">None from the first PHB. This was pretty obviously intentional: D&amp;D players are going to own the first PHB, and they are going to expect to be able to play with the options therein. Without trying to read the minds of designers, I can only say that there's a dang good logical reason why you don't want to contradict the book that you require in order to play the game. If you define halflings as one thing, and then go back on that, it's a lot more confusing than if you don't really narrowly define them in the first place, and let people decide on their own what role halflings play in the world.When you bake world information into your core rules, you introduce pressure to all your supplemental rules to keep that world information the same.That would be a big problem in a game that's supposed to be modular and flexible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5812956, member: 2067"] None from the first PHB. This was pretty obviously intentional: D&D players are going to own the first PHB, and they are going to expect to be able to play with the options therein. Without trying to read the minds of designers, I can only say that there's a dang good logical reason why you don't want to contradict the book that you require in order to play the game. If you define halflings as one thing, and then go back on that, it's a lot more confusing than if you don't really narrowly define them in the first place, and let people decide on their own what role halflings play in the world. When you bake world information into your core rules, you introduce pressure to all your supplemental rules to keep that world information the same. That would be a big problem in a game that's supposed to be modular and flexible. [/QUOTE]

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