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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agamon" data-source="post: 6278802" data-attributes="member: 184">Are we talking about robots or people?  Is this information tattooed anywhere on the someone's body?  The DM isn't a fancy computer program that just spits out what is printed in the books, things can be changed.  In fact, if you leave out this info, the DM has to add to it, which is also changing expectations.If I, as a DM, add the "jackelwares love Graz'zt" to my campaign and that's not in the book, are all my players going to be utterly confused?  I hope not.How hard is it for a game to go like this:DM: You see a pack of jackelwaresPlayer: Are they conducting a ceremony to Graz'zt?DM: Don't assume what you read in the MM is true....This exchange doesn't even need to happen.  The DM can right out announce when the game starts that the players shouldn't assume what is in the MM is true.  Here's what you know about common monsters, and the others you don't know much about.  Maybe the MM stuff is rumors among the common folk that may or may not be true.I get that some people would rather just have blocks of stats and add their own fluff, but the most popular D&D monster books are the 2e MM and the 4e MV, so this kind of fluff text is the stuff most people like.</blockquote>