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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 9285212" data-attributes="member: 6901101">Sorry Tetrasodium, but I am so confused. I literally replied they should read the Introduction of the PHB. It does not mean recite. It means read. If you are asking me to recall from memory without opening the book (which no session zero would ever do), then maybe the second page. The part where it explains to the players that the D&D verse is vast, but the DM is the final authority. It is also in the DMG's Introduction. It is alos in Tasha's Introduction. It is also in Xanathar's Introduction. I don't understand why you just can't admit that it is a reading comprehension problem, or possibly a problem with not reading the rulebook as a whole. If you want the same advice that exists in all those introductions of ALL FOUR PLAYER BOOKS, then I will agree. Put the same thing in the backgrounds. Put it in. Use the same verbiage. If that makes you feel better, then I don't object to it. But to deliberately say these backgrounds cause an issue because it doesn't tell the player the DM might object or modify is patently false. To say they are a problem in specific campaign settings because session zero doesn't work is patently false. Now, if you were to come to me and argue that players in their own right just take on things without reading the rules, then I will be in full agreement. But that is a reading problem. The books are very clear. The problem is many players at the table never (and I mean never) read the rulebooks.</blockquote>

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