Because the book the table reads and the book behind the screen are genuinely different books, and pretending otherwise ruins one of them.
A player should be able to read the Player's Guide cover to cover without spoiling a single thing the GM is holding. The moment you bind those together you either spoil the campaign or you water down the GM material until it is useless. Most settings ship one book and a pile of swag; this ships the table's book and the secrets behind it.
The GM guide is not a thin appendix either. Sixteen chapters and six full quests, including a Shadow Campaign, a chapter on running the daemon at your table, and one called Secrets Kept from the Players that is exactly what it sounds like.
Both are full colour hardbacks. The GM book gets the same art the players get, which I would argue is the whole point of a screen worth sitting behind.
A player should be able to read the Player's Guide cover to cover without spoiling a single thing the GM is holding. The moment you bind those together you either spoil the campaign or you water down the GM material until it is useless. Most settings ship one book and a pile of swag; this ships the table's book and the secrets behind it.
The GM guide is not a thin appendix either. Sixteen chapters and six full quests, including a Shadow Campaign, a chapter on running the daemon at your table, and one called Secrets Kept from the Players that is exactly what it sounds like.
Both are full colour hardbacks. The GM book gets the same art the players get, which I would argue is the whole point of a screen worth sitting behind.
