Will You Count "Roman Numeral" Books As Core?

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

The Roman numeral Books- PHB II, DMG II, MM III, etc...

Will you consider them core books?

No. I think only the original books that have received the vast amount of playtesting can be called core. I've playtested some non-core; there's a difference.

Non-core isn't bad; buy what you like, leave what you don't like.

I agree with Shiverstone as well...

No. The first three must contain all the rules and components necessary to play the game. Everything after that is an option.

QFT.

The Monster Manual is the odd one. You don't strictly need it, although pretty much any campaign will have monsters. The first one is more "core" than the others only because any given adventure will probably use monsters from it (and less likely from the ones that follow).

 

[Sundragon2012]

Core is whatever I allow in my game.

If tieflings are going to be placed in my setting, then they will be. If not, then they won't be no matter what book with what Roman Numeral says otherwise.



Sundragon

 

[Abstraction]

I really wish this poll was done on a 5-point scale instead of all-or-nothing. I voted that I would count the books as core, although psionics is not allowed in for me.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

I voted "yes", but with the proviso that they are released in the SRD.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I understand the need to keep things simple at three books, but I myself have a vast library so I do include the 'Roman Numeral' books as part of my core.

 

[Xyl]

I voted "no", but I have a proposition. Wizards, I will call the PHB/DMG/MM II, III, etc. "core" if you will give us a simple term to refer to just the PHB, DMG, and MM I.

Regardless of terminology, I'll almost certainly allow material from any book in games I run.

 

[Starglim]

I will consider as core books that have been included in the SRD.

 

[Gold Roger]

In the wotc sense of "everything produced by us not setting specific". Yeah.

In the Core of the game I allow no questions asked?

DMG and MM are DM material that I always treat as optional anyway. I'll treat them the way I've treated DMG2 and MM2-5 in 3.X.

But the PHBs? Hell now. How the heck could I rationalise that about every year playtime new classes and power sources crop up? From those, individual options will be weighted on case by case basis and even then only if I buy them. Which admitedly is likely.

 

[Wombat]

Can't imagine that I would.

There are Core Books and there are Supplements.

If a book is Core, it is Core and it comes out at the beginning of the run -- it is what you need to run the game at a minimum.

Everything else is a Supplement and may or may not be used in the game.

 

[Glyfair]

I will consider as core books that have been included in the SRD.

But what if WotC starts putting out parts of books in the SRD? For example, maybe the only monsters they put in the 4E SRD from future products are those that exist in the 3.X SRDs. Will the MM II then be a "core book" because part of it is in the SRD?

Then we'll have books where part of the content isn't in the SRD. The current MM is like that. Several creatures , such as the Mind Flayers, aren't in the SRD.

I think the "SRD as core" designation will use rules not books to determine core.