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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4551921" data-attributes="member: 2209">I recently finished reading the 4e DMG all the way through straight and got to wondering if other people ever read their RPG books that way as well.RPG books in general are a combination of reference rule book and inspiration text. Unlike a novel you can skip around and go only to parts that catch your interest and have that make sense and get value out of it from doing so. As a reference book you can look up the parts applicable to what you are doing and go from there. I've played whole games where I didn't own the rulebooks and relied mostly upon those who did to explain the game with just a quick flip through some character creation parts to make my character and scanning the artwork to enjoy the ambience of the setting. Star Frontiers, Shadowrun, Warhammer FRP come to mind.The 1e DMG had Gygax's quirky organization which led me to read discrete sections back in the day though looking back I can't say for certain I read every page. I'm pretty sure I did for the red book/purple box basic game but that was a short game book and it was so long ago I couldn't really say definitively that I did.I've run modules such as the 1e Temple of Elemental Evil without reading the whole thing. I'd read enough to handle what the party was going to be doing immediately for a night or the foreseeable future while just having skimmed the rest. My party left the area after the moathouse so my knowledge of the rest is sketchy to this day, perfect for the game I'm currently playing that is set there.I think it was in the 2e era when I started reading some straight through consciously instead of just skipping to what caught my interest at the moment. I get more RPG books than I expect I will ever fully read but I do put RPGs on my reading list now and read them straight through.In 3e I read the PH all the way through but not the DMG or MM, I used those often as reference books and for occasional inspiration flipthroughs but never cover to cover straight. Other books in my collection have been a mix of reading straight through and reference resources.Do you read any RPG books all the way through cover to cover? If so which ones?</blockquote>

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