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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael_R_Proteau" data-source="post: 3713125" data-attributes="member: 48658">Bookstores carry what sells and is in print, if it is not selling, it is not in print. Lieber and Howard, two writers whose work I truly enjoy and have been a staple of my reading habits, have gone in and out of print over the last 30 years, Tolkien has not. If it is not available in print, they cannot carry it. Would more Howard/Liber sell if stores carried it-probably, but it has to to seel enough to justify a print run. Right now, Howard, Lieber and such are experiencing a bit of a renaissance in popularity, but 10 years ago, they were mostly out of print. Stores will pretty much carry whatever turns them a tidy profit. If they carry 4 different editions of Prof. Tolkien's wor, it is because those editions are selling. They choose products with mass appeal and fill in available space with niche products as needed. To return to the original topic of tieflings as a core race, I don't have a problem with it. It is a fantasy/mythological staple even if it wasn't in the first conception of D&D (but then there were only 3 classes and a couple of races in the first conception of D&D i.e. the '74 boxed set, and a lot have been added since then, so why not add a few more). A few have asked if they are confirmed...well being ont he cover art released for the 4E PHB seems a pretty good confirmation as far as I am concerned. I much prefer the core books to be a toolkit to use as I see fit rather than a straghtjacket, and form what I head this weekend in Indy and read when I got home this evening, one of the guiding principles of the new edition seems to be providing options not putting restrictions. So present tieflings as an option in the PHB, for use by those who choose to, but placing it there shouldn't restrict a group from making a choice about wwhat they want to use and what they don't want to use. There's nothing wrong with saying no to a presented option. -M</blockquote>

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