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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3258351" data-attributes="member: 10177">I'm sorry, but if a DM coesn't "have the time or inclination to change things around", then they don't have time or inclination to be playing.Dungeon needs, yes, really needs to appeal as broadly as possible. Other than a few thousand people, most who are frequently seen on ENWorld, the other 45,000 buyers of the magazine probably have the "core" books only. A few more may even have some of the Monster Manuals. Some even have all of them.Beyond that it is a hodgepodge of who has what.So the only possible way to maximize utility of the magazine to the most possible is to stay with primarily "core" rules.After all, the "other" books are all purely "optional", correct? There is no push, or mandate for all published books to be considered "core", right?So how could Dungeon, in good conscience, "push" people to buy non-core product by using rules and other items from those sources.Those books are all "optional", so why should Paizo treat them as anything required, either required for them to use, or for others to know about? They are "nice to have" books, for DM's to add new elements from, and have a fair degree of hope it isn't broken, even though there is definitely still a chance of that.So I find it curious that some people find so many books beyond the "core 3" are "core".</blockquote>