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It doesn’t really matter what is and isn’t canon. It’s what someone - Chris Avallone, who is a pretty good writer - thought would fit into the Star Wars universe. And canonicity didn’t stop KotOR Easter eggs popping up in Andor.

Darth Sion manages to come back from being blasted into chunks and deep frozen by vacuum (KotOR2). And he can do it so reliably that he uses it as a tactic.

Charles Grey played Mycroft a couple of times in the 70s and 80s, with at least a degree of corpulence, as described in the books. (Christopher Lee also played Sherlock several times, and was rather good.) However, the novels should be considered doubly unreliable. Watson is called out as an...

Why do you consider House a "bad Doctor" when someone who is good with patients but a lousy diagnostician (something I have plenty of personal experience of) is considered a good doctor? I would suggest that the system that insists House does something he knows he is bad at, rather than letting...

If you want Enid Blyton you would be better watching the modern Mallory Towers on the BBC.

These are good examples of why trying to mathematicise encounter design is doomed to fail. 45 goblins running at the party down a narrow corridor is a pushover. 45 goblins shooting arrows from behind crenelated walls is going to be difficult. A mindflayer who manages to get the whole party...

Weis and Hickman never accepted that Dragonlance was work for hire. In fact they were the outsiders (especially Weis) on a group project by TSR, managed by Gygax and with regular TSR bods such as Doug Niles making major contributions. I'm sure TSR always took it as read that the five headed...

Sure, I’ve never really understood why people care about canon. I’m using a setting to support my game of D&D, I want it to be interesting and relevant to my players, not be unchanged from something written decades ago for D&D games that ended decades ago.

The 3rd edition book is fairly vague as well. I suspect the "contradictions" that worry a few people come from the novels.

So, pretty much exactly what we have in the new FR book then.

Zinda is probably the most USA based setting in Radiant Citadel, with it's obsession with material wealth. The carnival that features in the adventure is more like a 4th July parade than Mardi Gras. It's a setting and an adventure that I'm not keen on, and wouldn't use myself (my players would...

The main thing is, if the party feels overwhelmed by the final battle (not unlikely if you use XP and they are level 4), they may decide to flee that way. So if you don't want to do underdark stuff you might want to prep somewhere else for the tunnel to lead.

WaSF drops quite easily into any generic fantasy setting, as it was originally written to do. As for combat balance, my biggest concern is the memory web at the start being a bit of a pushover. But the party are required to win, so it doesn't really matter. As for the rest, it's pretty...

As I understand it, Calimshan was not in Greenwood's original FR and was largely created by Doug Niles when TSR bought it.

And a great many other celebrations too. Humans love dressing up and having fun, and are quite good at finding reasons to do it.

It was imported to the Americas by European missionaries. It’s still celebrated in places like Spain. In Northern Europe it was turned into gloomy shrove Tuesday by the puritans, where you might get a pancake if you are lucky. Definitely a medieval/renaissance Europe thing.

I don’t think this is specifically Star Wars. It’s a fairly standard SF concept. Star Trek TOS would have done it if they had the budget, the animated series did do it, Doctor Who did it around 1973 - The Curse of Peledon had major characters from six different species, two not even remotely...

I agree with this, at least in terms of concept space. I know that 5e lore makes them the same, but that's a retcon. Draconians are orcs wearing dragon-suits to make Dragonlance look like less of a Tolkien rip-off. Dragonborn are evolved from the playable dragons in Council of Wyrms.

Whist I sure there isn’t a 6e in the immediate future, I very much doubt it will be as much as a decade. 6-8 years until D&D the Daggerheart edition.

There is far too much TV available to not do homework before sitting down to watch something. And a 2 minute google search is hardly a bunch. A lot less work than watching two and a half episodes.