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<blockquote data-quote="John Brebeuf" data-source="post: 7298744" data-attributes="member: 6920177"><p>Only nothing follows from alternative (2) that serves your purposes. Of course reading those parts of the PHB that he hasn't already read would require more time and effort, but the PHB is part of the core rules of D&D and a DM would be rightly expected to put that effort in, unless he explicitly stated before the campaign began that certain classes will be excluded from play. Absent such a stated intention, it's ASSUMED that the entire PHB and all classes therein are playable, and so the DM ought to be thoroughly familiar with whatever content from it ends up in the game he's running and has an obligation to his players to put the time and effort into becoming so. Supplements, however, are an entirely different issue: they're SUPPLEMENTS, i.e., NOT part of the core rules of the system and a DM is entirely within his rights to eschew spending any time on them without shirking his responsibilities as DM because there's nothing in the game system that says supplements MUST be included. Nor can any player hold it against him for NOT doing so because nothing in the rules of the game says he must (unlike the PHB, which is a substantial PART of the rules of the game except for those elements which are explicitly stated to be optional).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Brebeuf, post: 7298744, member: 6920177"] Only nothing follows from alternative (2) that serves your purposes. Of course reading those parts of the PHB that he hasn't already read would require more time and effort, but the PHB is part of the core rules of D&D and a DM would be rightly expected to put that effort in, unless he explicitly stated before the campaign began that certain classes will be excluded from play. Absent such a stated intention, it's ASSUMED that the entire PHB and all classes therein are playable, and so the DM ought to be thoroughly familiar with whatever content from it ends up in the game he's running and has an obligation to his players to put the time and effort into becoming so. Supplements, however, are an entirely different issue: they're SUPPLEMENTS, i.e., NOT part of the core rules of the system and a DM is entirely within his rights to eschew spending any time on them without shirking his responsibilities as DM because there's nothing in the game system that says supplements MUST be included. Nor can any player hold it against him for NOT doing so because nothing in the rules of the game says he must (unlike the PHB, which is a substantial PART of the rules of the game except for those elements which are explicitly stated to be optional). [/QUOTE]
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