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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4851443" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, I'm not talking about stuff the PC's should already know.  I was being more specific than that.  Although, really, just flat out info-dumping about your world tends, IME, not to stick in the brains of the players as well as if they discover it through interacting.I would point out here that guide =/= pre plotted adventures.  I'm not sure if that's what you meant S'mon, but, it isn't.  Guides are a means in which the DM can impart information to the players without having to step out of character or out of game.  Unless you're playing in a world where the players are already familiar with most of the background information, it can be very difficult to ground the players in a setting.To give a current example, I'm running a Savage World's game set in a SF setting.  Now, it's entirely homebrew and it's going to be a very short campaign - about 4 or 5 sessions.  I don't have time to infodump.  So, the players now have a wireless link to a personality simulation aboard their ship that acts as their personal avatar for gathering or retreiving any information they might want to know.  Kind of like the Ship in Andromeda or Hal from 2001.</blockquote>