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I must have seen a different Barbie movie.

No, it’s not true of WotC. They have included representations of same-sex partners and non-binary NPCs. To their credit, WotC is perfectly willing to offend people who are offended by that.

That is simply not true. Not in the gaming industry and not in the broader American culture.

It's the thing on the top of their heads. They wear a hat to cover it up.

In D&D 5e, casters lose concentration when they’re paralyzed. We started using the rule when we noticed it, but it took years to notice it.

I remember laughing my butt off throughout the original Evil Dead. It wasn't a comedy?

Sometimes I think so, but then I remember I bought a lot of crappy modules, because that was what was on the rack in Waldenbooks. I think I like getting adventures in magazines or online.

Much like the folks in charge of TSR back in the day.

My first exposure to D&D was finding a character sheet in my cousin's room. At the time, I had never heard of the game, and I had no idea how one might play it, but I was completely taken by the possibilities of the numbers on the page and the armor class in the little shield-shaped space on the...

No, I was casting a wider net than just metaplot. I appreciate your response to the questions.

That makes sense. Thanks, that’s a perspective I hadn’t considered. I’ve never played at a table using a published setting that was very familiar to more than one or two people. In those cases, the DM found value in the setting outside of being a base of common knowledge. I can see that would...

Would it be enough to make sure everyone one knows that you are deviating from it, rather than where you are deviating from it? Much of the lore of FR would be outside of in-character knowledge and it would be unduly burdensome to expect a full-disclosure up front.

The better analogy might be that the D&D rules are like a cookbook, not meal at a restaurant. If you follow a recipe and find the results too garlicky, you can use less garlic. It's still valuable to have and follow a cookbook, but it's also pretty easy to make little changes to the recipes to...

You're not suggesting that there can't be canonical events that change the power structure (in Avernus or elsewhere), are you? That if Zariel is Archduke now, events cannot occur that change that without compromising canon? That history can't advance and remain canonical?

For those of you who have strong preferences for consistent fidelity to D&D canon -- within an edition, across editions, and/or across various related media (novels, computer games, etc.) -- how do you find that affects your experience at the game table? Do RPG sourcebooks service the same...

Dare I ask ... ? Which movie are you referring to here?

I apologize. I tried but failed to make it clear that I wasn't disputing or minimizing your point of view. (And I wouldn't dispute the idea that TSR used game materials to tell stories.) I wanted to learn more about why the story canon of D&D is important to you, and as a separate question what...

Do RPG sourcebooks service the same function for you and your games as a fictional franchise? (It's an actual question -- I'm not implying that they don't or that they shouldn't.) Should publishers use them to tell a story? For my part, I don't look to any campaign setting to tell a story...

Star Trek "continuity" isn't a great example. TOS was barely consistent with itself, and then there's the animated series, and Strange New Worlds completey reimagined Gorn lore (not to mention the Chapel-Spock relationship). There's a whole slew of Star Trek comic books and novels that no one...

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