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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 829831" data-attributes="member: 5">You can't use material that players, who are also DMs, know...in name.  If you are going to alter things, rename them as well.  By using the original names you are setting up a situation where they feel they can expect certain things.  Nothing wrong with using the materials if they save you time but rename everything and tell them that even if they suspect that something is one way, it may not be so.For instance, if I wanted to use Lolth in a game where all the players are familiar with the material connected with Lolth, they have every right to expect it to be the Lolth they know.  Why else use it?  If I then make adjustments to it, I need to call it something else or I am the one leading them to believe something that is false, in a meta-gaming way.If I hand a quarterback a basketball, I can't tell him it is a football, I can't tell him to play football with it, and I can't expect him to not complain. If I fill the basketball halfway full with water, tell him it is a wobbleball, and tell him that we will be playing Wobbles and Warthogs, he cannot expect the game to be anything like football nor complain when it is not like football.</blockquote>