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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9803540" data-attributes="member: 18182">I think part of the challenge is feature creep. Over the past 50 years, options were introduced that became popular and were added to the core. The "core" options in 5E are quite a bit more than the "core" options in AD&D 2E. But features keep being added, and the game is overall much better balanced, designed, and focused right now, so the additional options aren't in some obscure setting book only a few have collected, but in major "everything" books.Tieflings used to be the "weird" race in an obscure setting book (Planescape), but are now a "core" race, for example.Playable dhampirs have been a thing for a while now, I think they go back to 2E, certainly 3E, but now they are more easily accessible to the whole community. They just might be added to the "core" for 6E!!When you have tieflings, aasimar, goliath and dragonborn in the core rules, adding more "uncommon" species to the list isn't that much more to travel for most gamers today. You can have your "circus troupe" without using anything outside the PHB!This isn't a problem, this is simply how D&D evolved. Some folks embrace it, some folks pine for earlier days. Such is life.Nothing wrong with pitching an "old school" game to your play group, even with using the 5E rules. Also nothing wrong with every PC having a skin color not found IRL!!</blockquote>