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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6713842" data-attributes="member: 6701872">Is there no other possible explanation?I hadn't even considered it as being a &quot;marketing move&quot; since the DM screen didn't have any ads that I saw which listed those tables as included features.I thought it was just a case of something along the lines of &quot;Well, this is the kind of thing that some DMs could really use and could see a lot of use at the table during actual play, but there really isn't much to say about it or need for an explanation how to use it, so it'd be just some free-floating table in the DMG or worse, include actually wasted word count by explaining why the table it there... so it probably shouldn't go in the DMG, especially since the page count is already full of potentially more useful stuff.&quot; and someone saying &quot;Yeah, but we are making a DM screen and the game is so simple this time around that we really don't need much to be on the screen, so why don't we stick this there?&quot;But hey, maybe you are right. Maybe I'm just too ready to believe the game designers aren't &quot;jerkass.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6713842, member: 6701872"] Is there no other possible explanation? I hadn't even considered it as being a "marketing move" since the DM screen didn't have any ads that I saw which listed those tables as included features. I thought it was just a case of something along the lines of "Well, this is the kind of thing that some DMs could really use and could see a lot of use at the table during actual play, but there really isn't much to say about it or need for an explanation how to use it, so it'd be just some free-floating table in the DMG or worse, include actually wasted word count by explaining why the table it there... so it probably shouldn't go in the DMG, especially since the page count is already full of potentially more useful stuff." and someone saying "Yeah, but we are making a DM screen and the game is so simple this time around that we really don't need much to be on the screen, so why don't we stick this there?" But hey, maybe you are right. Maybe I'm just too ready to believe the game designers aren't "jerkass." [/QUOTE]

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