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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6205136" data-attributes="member: 2525">I said the players should not FOCUS on the monster manual.  Does it make more sense now?  There should be no expectation that what they read in the Monster Manual is what's going to be in your game.  Their focus is what's in the player's handbook, not the books for use for the DM.  Reading it for when they DM is perfectly understandable, but it should not be their focus as a player, and the purpose of the monster manual is not to build expectations for players.  If your players are having a problem with metagaming monsters because they read the monster manual, that's a problem that needs to be addressed.  As long as your world is internally consistent, it does not have to be consistent with what's in the monster manual.  It's a tool for a DM, not a bible for players.</blockquote>