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Exactly. Ravenloft is another good example. Per the old cannon, no one survived the events of I6 (or it's 2e remake). No matter what your PCs did, the cannon answer was always that they died by Strahd. How depressing to know that if you want to be accurate to the lore, you cannot win I6. I...

I assume you have never argued with a cannon purist who tried to correct you with "ackshually..." When your discussing your campaign. You're doing it right now. You're literally claiming my version of Drizzt is wrong. That's why "official = correct" needs to die in a fire.

And I never did either. All I said was my version isn't invalid, wrong or somehow lesser because I did. It's a shot across the bow to those who claim I'm doing it wrong for not following the cannon. There is room in the D&D Multiverse for multiple takes on the same setting.

To be fair, doing your own thing is one of the driving spirits of D&D.

The default is just that: default. It itself means nothing because nothing remains the default once play has begun. TSR used to try to have one correct "cannon" version of events and it ruined gameplay because it shackles the DM and players into events playing out a certain way. Lord Neverember...

My point is that if you sit down to my table and that group discovers people are being murdered by a dark elf with two scimitars, you don't have the right to declare my game invalid because "that's not who Drizzt is, you're not playing the REAL Forgotten Realms!" My version is a as valid as the...

1501 per the new book. Azoun died 130 years ago. That's a half-dozen human generations ago.

MY game, MY Realms. Or do you believe that only the one in the WotC book is One True Realms and no one should deviate from it?

I actually agree. Which is why I prefer the "multiple variants of the same world, each shaped by the DM and players, but all theoretically connected on some grand cosmic scale" system. That way, there is no wrong answer, only multiple right ones.

I think it also was done to foster a certain shared "community" aspect to D&D. Most players can tell stories about facing Strahd or saving Waterdeep and this is D&D's way of saying "all of those stories are valid." It also explains why Metaplot is a dying element of world building (because it...

Its a little more nuanced than that. WotC has used the multiverse to explain that there are multiple versions of Toril or Eberron, but those multiple versions are yours and mine. My version of the Faerun is going to be different than yours, but if I ever take the PC I used in your version and...

Told you all.

I've been harsh on it so far, but we haven't seen what the higher level abilities are. It might still be good, but the level 3 abilities don't fill me with hope. Not when compared to my pet dragon. But in the larger picture, you are absolutely right: we are getting the lore change but we aren't...

Even if it did, the opposition would have to be near unanimous for it to go beyond the subclass and affect the general idea of the union. Like "purple dragons are racist" levels of blowback. So while I do think some of that anti-lore change feedback bubbled up, I don't think it was sufficient...

They mentioned the dragon is no longer part of the subclass. The banneret is going to be a support/warlord type fighter now. We still don't know what the later features are, but I wager none will involve dragons.

They do read it, they don't act on it like we think they do. For example, if WotC read all the comments on a class revision (say, the sorcerer, artificer or psion) and WotC gets feedback like "this class shouldn't exist, delete it from the game" that feedback isn't helpful to answering their...

Well, let's say you want to introduce a new species in the PHB (like a species Born of Dragons). You either need to explain why they suddenly appeared OR retcon they were always there and you didn't notice. Both have pitfalls. Which is why D&D has alternated between both with various amounts of...

Karlach tried writing a book on vampires, but it mostly was just a list on different ways to kill them

Well, it's beyond the scope of this thread, but I wonder what world looks like if D&D was more like CoC; editions were mostly minor revisions and settings didn't really evolve via Metaplot. Changes would be more incremental and you wouldn't see wholesale rewriting of mechanics and lore. I don't...