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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 9872740" data-attributes="member: 3285">You make a really good point. In some ways it's because "reading content" vs. "just in time content" requires different formats.I'd add one more: it's fine for a PLAYER to have "just their view of the rules." It is not nearly as fine for a DM. Digital content tends to serve up only the pieces you need for your character. Many of my players had no idea what their species benefits were, for example, because they had never played that species.I think you could argue that everyone in theory needs to know the basics (all the classes, all the species) because it helps you work together as a team. Recommending how your guiding bolt works with a rogue's sneak attack means knowing your cleric, the guiding bolt spell, AND how a rogue's sneak attack works. That kind of synergy isn't something that's easy to get the whole picture when data is served up in chunks.If you pull at this thread (which is fundamentally DDB) we get to the point where there's no expectation for anyone to know the rules cover-to-cover. For players that's probably fine. For DMs? I'm not so sure.</blockquote>