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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8809355" data-attributes="member: 6801845">No, I don't think it would have been.   <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> If I'm explaining how to (picking random subject) write an SQL query I probably don't discuss how the data is stored on physical pages, why they do it the way they do it or the history of databases.  It's not particularly relevant.D&D, especially current edition, is not just 1 or 2 people sitting down and deciding what's best.  It's a committee that proposes ideas, sends those ideas out to a relatively large playtest group and then does a broad based survey.  It's a different process than most TTRPGs.The book doesn't exist in a vacuum though so it's not a relevant assumption.  It's not like ye olden days when a significant percentage of new players just found the game while browsing in B Daltons.While I think the books are there for them. Starter sets if you don't understand the basics, there's a fair amount in the core books for brand new DMs.  I've been DMing for decades now, I'm still not a fully competent DM.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think the DMG is already useful to anyone who has a decent grasp of the rules.</blockquote>

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