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<blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 655131" data-attributes="member: 5">Speaking from a WotC perspective (though I am not a WotC employee, of course), the main goal is to sell as many books as possible.&nbsp; The DM slice of the gamer pie is smaller and one way to entice some players to go beyond the PH-only purchase is to put useful information in the MM for players.For a DM, the round by round information is good guidance even if the actual text is not used as strategy verbatim.If you have a player in your game who thinks looking in the MM for how to defeat monsters is a good idea, change things around a bit.&nbsp; Certainly that has been suggested and the DMG has lots of tricks to help you, not to mention that almost all monsters/creatures/NPCs can be scaled.If you ask a player not to look in the MM, and they look despite your request, then you have trust problems with your player that won't be solved by the publisher's omission of that material from the book, I fear... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark, post: 655131, member: 5"] Speaking from a WotC perspective (though I am not a WotC employee, of course), the main goal is to sell as many books as possible. The DM slice of the gamer pie is smaller and one way to entice some players to go beyond the PH-only purchase is to put useful information in the MM for players. For a DM, the round by round information is good guidance even if the actual text is not used as strategy verbatim. If you have a player in your game who thinks looking in the MM for how to defeat monsters is a good idea, change things around a bit. Certainly that has been suggested and the DMG has lots of tricks to help you, not to mention that almost all monsters/creatures/NPCs can be scaled. If you ask a player not to look in the MM, and they look despite your request, then you have trust problems with your player that won't be solved by the publisher's omission of that material from the book, I fear... :eek: [/QUOTE]

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