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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 6764044" data-attributes="member: 12388">Who said anything about a player buying a book with the assumption that it would be allowed?I know I certainly didn't. Players purchase books with the hopes of using the content. They purchase books to collect them. They purchase books to get ideas for their characters or to save for later when it's their turn to be the DM. This isn't anything new, just like the fact that the game costs money isn't new. Of course a DM is free to be a jerk, if he or she wants, by not caring about what interests his or her players or what they went through to get their hands on a book. Jerk DMs are part of the game too, and they serve a valuable purpose: to teach players who to avoid gaming with.  Funny...my post advised DMs to review content in lieu of flatly refusing a player for the sake of refusing a player. I'm not exactly sure how a DM is supposed to give "due consideration" (your words, mind) to a product neither the DM or the player owns, but I don't know, maybe you have psychic powers that other DMs aren't blessed with?</blockquote>