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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9536754" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I will actually object that nuance is needed here. Overwriting and retconning can not only be good, but be incredibly necessary. A few examples: - Per old lore, Ettercaps were once druids who wildshaped into spiders and lived their lives as spiders. But then they did what spiders did and cannibalized their young (a thing some spiders do do in real life) so the Gods of Nature cursed them for committing this act against nature. Which was cannibalism. Something that is a well-documented fact of over 1,500 species of animals. Why didn't the Gods of Nature curse all actual alligators, rabbits, spiders, frogs, ect ect ect- Per old lore, Lizardfolk exist because thinking is bad. They used to all be one divine being, but then that being began thinking, and since it thought, it split into many different beings. And so to return to divinity you need to not think about anything ever. Even survival should not concern you. - Neogi. Pretty much everything about the Neogi. I've heard they were created solely to be so horrifically evil that it could make sense for the PCs to work with Mindflayers in Spelljammer, because the designers thought working with Mindflayers in Spelljammer was cool.You may disagree with me on some of these, all of these, or none of these. But there have been some absolutely atrocious lore decisions over the past 50 years of the game, and them being retconned is better for the health of the game as a whole.</blockquote>

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