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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 1401821" data-attributes="member: 3854">Is there any evidence in the core rules that the printing press (mechanical or magical or whatever form) has been invented in D&D? Whether or not there is info in the core rules on this device, does it exist in *your* D&D campaign?How much information about the D&D world is available in printed form to people in that world? Is there a listing of the known monsters in written/published form -- a "Monster Manual"?Is there a guide book to the different realms?Is there a guide book to the underdark?Is there a scholarly work on the various dragons -- a "Draconomicon"?According to the game books, there exists a "Book of Vile Darkness" and a "Book of Exalted Deeds" in the game world.Is there an encyclopedia of the various planes of the great wheel -- a "Manual of the Planes"?Etc.I mean, surely someone in the D&D world would put their experiences and knowledge of places and things into book form and sell it. How much money could an experienced adventurer make by recording his knowledge and selling it on the open market? How much would an adventuring group pay for a book listing all the creatures and terrain features they might encounter while travelling through the Mountains of Doom? In my campaign world, there is a League of Explorers who compile information from the various hired adventurers into volumes of encyclopedias. But the books are only available to the LoE primaries -- those who have invested many thousands of gold pieces into the league. Even the adventurers paid to bring in the information can't get a copy of these books -- much to their annoyance. It pisses them off to no end that they aren't even allowed to see the materials/artifacts they themselves have brought in and sold to the LoE. In effect, their adventuring is work for hire, belonging to the LoE <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />What info on the world is readily available to people in your world?Are there books of information useful to adventurers? Are their periodicals? Newspapers?Quasqueton</blockquote>

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