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His point is that they're all also optional, not that they're not core. This is different from D&D (I guess). The 'Core' SR4 books are always described as 'advanced options'.
QUOTE (Yerameyahu @ Mar 11 2012, 11:55 AM) 
His point is that they're all also optional, not that they're not core. This is different from D&D (I guess). The 'Core' SR4 books are always described as 'advanced options'.
They may be optional for inclusion, but that does not make them "House Rules."
The books are FULL of OPTIONAL RULES. Whether or not you use them does not make them House Rules all of a Sudden.
Fine, I didn't say that. 
I just said there's a difference between optional core and mandatory core. I don't care about the overall argument at all.
I just said there's a difference between optional core and mandatory core. I don't care about the overall argument at all.
@Tymeaus Jalynsfein
To include an optional rule, could be seen as a houseroule.
To include an optional rule, could be seen as a houseroule.
...and as TJ mentioned, all the core gear books are 'core rules'
QUOTE (Irion @ Mar 11 2012, 01:30 PM)
@Tymeaus Jalynsfein
To include an optional rule, could be seen as a houseroule.
To include an optional rule, could be seen as a houseroule.
Erroneously, of course...
Optional core. 
Yeah, splatbooks are optional rules, not house rules.
House rules are stuff you either make up whole cloth, or deliberately alter the way the written rules work.
-k
House rules are stuff you either make up whole cloth, or deliberately alter the way the written rules work.
-k
Like, say, the stats for any Shapechange animal that's not in a book. Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with that.
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