"As this book is the exclusive province of the DM, you must view any non-DM player possessing it as something less than worthy of honorable death."
"When an assassin reaches 9th level (assassin), he or she may opt to make a study of poisons. This decision should come from the player in the case of a player character, i.e., do not suggest it or even intimate that such a study can be undertaken."
"A MONK AT 1ST LEVEL IS CAPABLE OF STUNNING OR KILLING ONLY AN OPPONENT OF MAN-SIZE (M) OR SMALLER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS DETERMINATION, MAN-SIZE SHALL BE:
Maximum Height: 6' 6"
Maximum Weight: 300#"
"Yet because the player character is all-important, he or she must always- or nearly always- have a chance, no matter how small, a chance of somehow escaping what otherwise would be inevitable destruction."
"Someone once sharply criticized the concept of the saving throw as ridiculous. Could a man chained to a rock, they asked, save himself from the blast of a red dragon's breath? Why not?, I replied. If you accept fire-breathing dragons, why doubt the chance to reduce the damage sustained from such a creature's attack?"
"The mechanics of combat or the details of the injury caused by some horrible weapons are not the key to heroic fantasy and adventure games."
