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<blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 6395361" data-attributes="member: 6698278">It's a tragedy but it's his tragedy.&nbsp; I would never change those days when I entered the game a total newbie and didn't know anything.&nbsp; Those were magical times and to some extend never to be recaptured.&nbsp;&nbsp; If he reads the MM and DMG, then he is throwing away that mystery and magic but he is only hurting himself.As a DM, you will have to deal with players reading those books ultimately because some of them will of course be DMs themselves.&nbsp; I keep everyone on their toes by making a lot of my own monsters and by changing up the uncommon and rare ones in odd ways.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do not consider the MM as something the players &quot;officially&quot; know about so I am under no obligation to use any creature as written.&nbsp;&nbsp; If they make assumptions and ultimately suffer for those assumptions (suffer as in in game suffering <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />), that is just a lesson learned.&nbsp;&nbsp; I tend to view the common monsters as more widely known by the educated so it doesn't bother me that they know about those creatures.I never worry about players dictating from the rulebooks anyway.&nbsp; I've long ago firmly established the nature of my games and it's on a take it or leave it approach.&nbsp; I have all the players I can handle and more.&nbsp; I don't feel given the popularity of my game that I need to change my playstyle to suit a particular player.&nbsp;&nbsp; I won't do the new way very well which will disappoint the other players and the player wanting it his way ultimately won't have fun either because I won't be competent at that style.&nbsp;&nbsp; So I do what I do and I think I do that well.&nbsp;&nbsp; The players I do have are happy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emerikol, post: 6395361, member: 6698278"] It's a tragedy but it's his tragedy. I would never change those days when I entered the game a total newbie and didn't know anything. Those were magical times and to some extend never to be recaptured. If he reads the MM and DMG, then he is throwing away that mystery and magic but he is only hurting himself. As a DM, you will have to deal with players reading those books ultimately because some of them will of course be DMs themselves. I keep everyone on their toes by making a lot of my own monsters and by changing up the uncommon and rare ones in odd ways. I do not consider the MM as something the players "officially" know about so I am under no obligation to use any creature as written. If they make assumptions and ultimately suffer for those assumptions (suffer as in in game suffering :-)), that is just a lesson learned. I tend to view the common monsters as more widely known by the educated so it doesn't bother me that they know about those creatures. I never worry about players dictating from the rulebooks anyway. I've long ago firmly established the nature of my games and it's on a take it or leave it approach. I have all the players I can handle and more. I don't feel given the popularity of my game that I need to change my playstyle to suit a particular player. I won't do the new way very well which will disappoint the other players and the player wanting it his way ultimately won't have fun either because I won't be competent at that style. So I do what I do and I think I do that well. The players I do have are happy. [/QUOTE]

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