I love the English term "Throwing the book at them".
If a player, in a #TTRPG gets uppity, you throw the (rule)book at them.
Unluckily the D&D rulebook does at most D4 damage. Much too lightweight.
The German #Midgard #RPG rules are significantly more massive (the core rules are well above a 1.000 pages). But for affordability they have split them up into multiple books.
But I wanted a "Grimoire" version of the rule book as a present. So I went to the local bookbinder and bound them into a single opus:

