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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6223577" data-attributes="member: 7006">The problem though... is that the word &quot;Core&quot; is a loaded term.&nbsp; And people have been using it to whine to high heaven about what appears in the books and what they do and don't want to see and use for years now.&nbsp; Using the word &quot;Core&quot; serves no function other than to make some people demand that things they want should appear in the first set of books, or things they don't want should not.Now yes, the first three books absolutely give us the first group of rules we will use to play the game.&nbsp; I have no problem with that.&nbsp; But by calling those rules &quot;Core&quot;... it makes anything that appears after them &quot;not Core&quot;... and thus people will use those definitions as a bludgeon to try and get their way.Screw &quot;Core&quot;.&nbsp; Rules are rules, regardless of which book they come from.&nbsp; Stuff from Book 1 is no more important than stuff from Book 3, and the sooner we start accepting that, the better off we'll all be.&nbsp; And maybe then we'll stop hearing the ridiculous complaints that the dragonborn don't belong in Book 1 for example.&nbsp; That race has just as much right to be in Book 1 as any other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6223577, member: 7006"] The problem though... is that the word "Core" is a loaded term. And people have been using it to whine to high heaven about what appears in the books and what they do and don't want to see and use for years now. Using the word "Core" serves no function other than to make some people demand that things they want should appear in the first set of books, or things they don't want should not. Now yes, the first three books absolutely give us the first group of rules we will use to play the game. I have no problem with that. But by calling those rules "Core"... it makes anything that appears after them "not Core"... and thus people will use those definitions as a bludgeon to try and get their way. Screw "Core". Rules are rules, regardless of which book they come from. Stuff from Book 1 is no more important than stuff from Book 3, and the sooner we start accepting that, the better off we'll all be. And maybe then we'll stop hearing the ridiculous complaints that the dragonborn don't belong in Book 1 for example. That race has just as much right to be in Book 1 as any other. [/QUOTE]

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