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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9281070" data-attributes="member: 93670">You are basing pretty much this entire post on a misinterpretation of something I wrote about a specific problem caused by time and presentation.Players should absolutely be expected to read the book and I never said otherwise.  However that does not change the fact that "read" is not the same as "study every word of  it as if preparing for their doctoral degree in phb" or something and players will often come away with bad expectations... They will especially be likely to if they already thought or even hoped that those expectations would be what they see because through page count and misleading passive/active voice the phb reinforces those expectations.The phb actively makes it difficult for those bad expectations to be corrected by the gm and "read the entire book for deeeper meaning" is not a thing capable of being done within the time a group allocates to things like session zero or a chargen interaction. That's an especially unreasonable thing for the GM to be expected to fix now when the problem is created by the 2014phb  making efforts to shift PC backgrounds out of the background where they were once omitted or clearly and explicitly explained as a secondary thing to more important stuff and into the foreground.</blockquote>