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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8510105" data-attributes="member: 58172">I am mainly "official-only"."Official", includes noncore, like Tashas and Xanathars.However, as DM, I am a worldbuilder. Creating new worlds is official. But new settings can both create new content and dismiss official content. So there is a blurry line between official and homebrew.For example.The core Cleric class alters to be more like Eberron, to be more inclusive of diverse ethnic spiritual traditions, and not-necessarily polytheistic. I use the Xanathars "cosmic power" Cleric straightforwardly. I want 50e to rewrite the core Cleric description to be about "cosmic power". In the meanwhile, does it count as "official" if it overrides the core?I create new backgrounds, that are pertinent to the choices of species and culture. This is "official", but, you know. Various official adventures also create new backgrounds, and I do so to about the same degree.Even creating a new player species is "official", in the DMG, and I did so to make mythologically accurate Charisma elves available. Now Tashas allows ability swaps, and I use Tashas straightforwardly. So all my species are now "official". Except I still allow players to swap out Darkvision for the choice of any cantrip. This is slightly beyond Tashas, which can swap Darkvision for a weapon proficiency. But it is official as part of DMG worldbuilding.I have no Wheel in the Astral Plane. I have 4e-style Astral Domains. Each culture has its own domains in the Astral Plane. Even so, in the Astral mindscape, there is still an "affinity" between two persons of the same alignment, so they are still potentially "near" each other conceptually. Mostly I grant advantage or disadvantage to any checks where this alignment affinity might be a factor.Generally, I consider my play style strictly official. But the line is blurry because of worldbuilding. So I chose option 2, "I will use some unofficial material from specific sources."I am not opposed to adopting 3rd-party content. But I havent so far, and it would have to be amazing, to make it worth disrupting the by-the-book shared assumptions.</blockquote>

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