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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 3739780" data-attributes="member: 19857">Something to keep in mind ...No matter how much streamlining goes on in the initial rulebooks, by the time another decade passes and "5e" is about to be released, all of the stuff that has existed in previous editions of the game will probably have shown up in the current edition.Unless there are mechanics in the core rules for subraces, by the end of the 4e life cycle we'll probably have gotten updates for all of the subraces that exist now.  Because someone will decide they're needed and someone else will decide that they add pages to supplements and there will be legions of fans of the "wood elf" or the "grey elf" demanding an update.Having said that - I only allow two types of elves anyway - Elves from the PHB and Drow.  And, really, Drow are only NPCs in my game (not through any DM fiat or other mechanation on my part, but because no player has ever asked to play a Drow).  I wouldn't miss the subraces at all.</blockquote>