Mike,
I think if anyone at all is entitled to do whatever they wish with their game - the creator is certainly the only one who can always dispose of, sell, trade, paper their walls or do truly anything they want. Definitely get the manuals - though I must confess I never read the durn things til I have a problem. I just grump around my office, go online and look for posts, talk to my kids and then finally the last thing I try is to get the manual out. Then it's usually "Ohhhh so that's what I am supposed to do"
Laura