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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4519793" data-attributes="member: 710">No, they were not in the Core Rules. Still, the ECL rules were included in the DMG in 3.5 (I am not sure if they were already in 3.0). And these books sold and were very popular. So, if these &quot;monstrous&quot; races are so popular, why not make them a direct part of the Core Rules - at least the favorite archetypes?Of course one could argue that this also makes a good point for keeping them a separate book, since it apparently sells. But maybe Druids and Bards in PHB II would sell better then Minotaurs and Dragonborn in PHB II? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't know about that. Maybe they figured that they couldn't cover more than 8 races, and picked the most popular ones. (Still could have gone without the Half-Elf, personally.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4519793, member: 710"] No, they were not in the Core Rules. Still, the ECL rules were included in the DMG in 3.5 (I am not sure if they were already in 3.0). And these books sold and were very popular. So, if these "monstrous" races are so popular, why not make them a direct part of the Core Rules - at least the favorite archetypes? Of course one could argue that this also makes a good point for keeping them a separate book, since it apparently sells. But maybe Druids and Bards in PHB II would sell better then Minotaurs and Dragonborn in PHB II? ;) I don't know about that. Maybe they figured that they couldn't cover more than 8 races, and picked the most popular ones. (Still could have gone without the Half-Elf, personally.) [/QUOTE]

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