There are two sourcebooks that are not available in marketplace that should be.

1)   Starter Set Rulebook

2)   Essentials Kit Rule Book.

When I run my campaigns, I always share the appropriate sourcebooks in my campaigns and when I am running Lost Mines or Dragon of Icespire for new players, I don't want them getting overwhelmed with the shear volume of source material.   I just want them to see the basics of the appropriate Starter Set or Essentials Kit.   More critical then the starter set in my opinion is the Essentials Kit, since it remains the only source for information on "Sidekicks" since not all "New Player Tables" have enough new players to complete the campaign without sidekick help.

It is like Stormknight said. Those rulebooks contain only the basic rules or only a little more from the PHB, and anything that was truly unique to those books are in their DDB adventures.

Thank you, I checked that out but Dragon of Icespire Peak is an adventure and not a Sourcebook.   I don't like to share Adventures with players as I find few can resist the temptation to read ahead, thus my issue with wanting the Essentials Kit Rulebook.

The Basic Rules are longwinded and not the same as the Starter Set Rulebook which is only 32 pages long and a lot less confusing for truly new players.   I have the PDF print out of the Basic Rules and Players take one look at a 182 page printout and say "Screw That, that's the Basics ?"  Hence the need for Both of these as sourcebooks as they are more concise and don't give away story/adventure plot lines.

If you really want the abridged basic rules, you can buy the Rick and Morty adventure. That includes the abridged rules due to the amount of 'commentary' provided being enough to make it distinct from the basic rules/srd.

That being said, the basic rules as provided in the starter kit aren't much beyond the first few chapters of the srd basic rules

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Thank you, I checked that out but Dragon of Icespire Peak is an adventure and not a Sourcebook.   I don't like to share Adventures with players as I find few can resist the temptation to read ahead, thus my issue with wanting the Essentials Kit Rulebook.

Thank you, I will do that, but I still wish they were available as individual source books, just to make life easy :)

Do they retain the item once it is unshared it ?  I did not know that, I thought once they lost access to source, they could no longer get.

Thank You