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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5771871" data-attributes="member: 32536">To be honest, I hope WotC does everything it can to kill the very idea of &quot;core&quot; in 5e D&amp;D. In many ways, I think the massive divide between &quot;core only&quot; players and &quot;use everything but the core&quot; players during the 3E era is the true root of the modern Pathfinder/4E divide. The goals of 5E, which include reaching out to players in both camps and being as inclusive as possible, are rather antithetical to the entire concept of &quot;core&quot;. Defining one thing as &quot;core&quot; and another as &quot;not core&quot; is an act of exclusion, of saying that one way of playing the game is better or more &quot;true D&amp;D&quot; than another, and that should be avoided.The only way to handle things fairly is to say that there is no &quot;core&quot;, and that everything in the game is equally weighted as being merely an option. Elves and Dwarves should be exactly as optional and &quot;non-core&quot; as more exotic concepts like Dragonborn and Devas. After all, there are many people out there (like myself, actually), who dislike the former but would embrace the latter, so I don't think it is fair to say that everyone must pay for and use the former but not the latter.As such, to finally answer the question...Core Races: HumanCore Classes: NoneAll else is completely optional.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 5771871, member: 32536"] To be honest, I hope WotC does everything it can to kill the very idea of "core" in 5e D&D. In many ways, I think the massive divide between "core only" players and "use everything but the core" players during the 3E era is the true root of the modern Pathfinder/4E divide. The goals of 5E, which include reaching out to players in both camps and being as inclusive as possible, are rather antithetical to the entire concept of "core". Defining one thing as "core" and another as "not core" is an act of exclusion, of saying that one way of playing the game is better or more "true D&D" than another, and that should be avoided. The only way to handle things fairly is to say that there is no "core", and that everything in the game is equally weighted as being merely an option. Elves and Dwarves should be exactly as optional and "non-core" as more exotic concepts like Dragonborn and Devas. After all, there are many people out there (like myself, actually), who dislike the former but would embrace the latter, so I don't think it is fair to say that everyone must pay for and use the former but not the latter. As such, to finally answer the question... Core Races: Human Core Classes: None All else is completely optional. [/QUOTE]

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