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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4022145" data-attributes="member: 22779">There's a very simple reason for this Reynard.Saying that bad design is good because a Good DM can make it good doesn't change the fact that it's bad design in the first place.  Playing Blind Man's Bluff with rules mechanics is bad design.  It's poor organization for one.  For another, it ignores the rather large number of people out there who play and DM at the same time.  Heck, a recent poll on the 3e board showed that almost no groups had only one DM.  A group after a minimum amount of time will likely include at least two people with DMing experience, if not more.  Thus, the whole, "Gee, let's bury this rule in the DMG" doesn't inspire any more sense of wonder at all.Maybe it's because I started with Basic D&D.  There was no separation of the rules between multiple books there.  There was no assumption that you were verboten from seeing the DM's rules.  You bought to box set and you read it.  Then you gave it to your friends to read, because they wanted a shot too.The idea that we should play in ignorance and somehow this results in a better game is a dead horse that should have been turned to glue a very long time ago.</blockquote>