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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 2140229" data-attributes="member: 5">In short, if your "sense of wonder" is informed by the words written on the page, as opposed to coming from the moments around the table (actual gameplay) then as soon as the players have read through the books there is a danger that "sense of wonder" will be gone.To expand on that, if a player's sense of wonder comes from not knowing that a creature has a certain number of HD, once that number of HD is known, the wonder is gone.  If, however, the DM builds the sense of wonder around an idea that the creature has hidden a strip of cloth in a secret pocket within its trousers, and that piece of cloth is made only in one place (two countries west) and imported by the Archduke, whom the creature serves, and the players use a Knowledge (local) check DC 27 to have a "Eureka" moment to discover such a thing and solve the mystery of who is behind a rash of killings, then the HD of the creature doesn't make much difference.A DM needs to be more than what is written for him in the books he buys."Gobbledegook", indeed! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>