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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6398088" data-attributes="member: 6779234">Holy hyberbole, Batman! If we were only allowed to talk about things where life and death were at stake, then close the boards now.It goes a lot further than someone being disappointed, and it's reductive to just portray my point as such. It's an issue of which areas of the game are the DM's province and which are the players'. As I said, I'd rather that the rules were the DM's province, for various reasons, and hence I'd rather not see any player rule-books, and I gave one (colourful) reason why that is a good thing. I am not saying that there should be no optional rules - just that it should placed in the hands of DMs and not players.Anyway, in more general terms, there's no need to be so dismissive, even if that was my only point. We're talking about preferences here, I'm not sitting on the board of WOTC, deciding what should happen, nor am I even saying what I think WOTC should or shouldn't do (that would be a commercial issue, not based on what individual DMs want). I'm just stating my preference. This is a discussion board about D&D, and one of the things we get to talk about is what we'd personally like.  I mean, how dare I express an opinion on a discussion board?!!!</blockquote>