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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8713161" data-attributes="member: 7006">That's cool.  And it sounds like you accept the idea that any new book that is going to be published might change things and thus you might choose not to use the book.  That's exactly the attitude I think everyone should have.Now that being said... I would put forth the idea that it's well enough to want to start your game as official as possible by using what it in the book... but as soon as a person starts their own campaign and starts playing, they have now gone off on their own and are no longer in an official game, they are in their own game.  So it is now impossible for your game to be a part of some larger D&D community with a common ground because every single one of us now has a completely different game.Yes, a number of us may have started on a common ground, but who really cares how our games started before we actually began playing?  It's the actual playing of the game that matters and then how the game ends for us to remember it.  And thus if our games while playing and after they are done are going to have no common ground with any other player in the larger D&D community (outside of our table)... does beginning at a common ground really matter?  I don't think so.  There's no reason not to make a few changes at the start as well if they ultimately make our table's game better while we play.</blockquote>