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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 4020843" data-attributes="member: 319">I find that if you try to keep players from reading some of the rulebooks, you mainly ensure that they remain ignorant of all the minor details which allow them to understand how the game world really works, and to make informed decisions.Sure, in theory a DM could take the time to explain all those rules the players need, and hand out all the common info the PCs would know by virtue of 20 years of everyday experience - but how much time would that take? Even if you spread it out over a number of sessions, there's simply so much information in most RPG rulesets and settings that it's just not feasible.Then, as a result of not having all the information, players will either end up acting on incorrect assumptions - and get frustrated when they do something which sounds like it'd make sense, but just doesn't work given the rules and/or setting, resulting in characters getting hurt, wasting money, or just looking foolish - or fail to act entirely and overlook certain possibilities, because they have no reason to think they'd exist, and not enough information to ask the right questions.</blockquote>