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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 5607431" data-attributes="member: 10177"><p>Stormomu.</p><p></p><p>You've reminded me of another thing I have had as my experience with using published settings. Such as Dragonlance, or any other. When I have used them "canon" rarely even came up. They never ran into anyone I didn't want them to. They never went to a location I didn't want them to go to. When they were in Waterdeep, for one example, and tried to force a meeting with Khelben or whatever her name is (the one that lives with him, and is darn powerful in her own right), they weren't there. I had a magic mouth go off saying something like, "We are off saving the world, try to enter at your own PERIL!!"</p><p></p><p>Its not that I never used Khelben, I simply didn't want them to meet him, besides, I didn't think he would take the time to meet some low level party off the street just "because". He does have far more important things to be doing.</p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure the player, maybe even it was more than one of them, were getting alittle miffed at my refusal to let them meet him. I think I even then said something to the effect of, "Why the heck would he even want to meet you? Your nobody. Your not on his radar at any range. Earn some reputation and maybe, just maybe, he will find you worth seeing."</p><p></p><p>I do think they were the group, at a much later point, several levels, get approached by Khelben and get asked to take care of a problem that he thought they could handle, and that he really didn't want to take the time with, since he had more pressing matters with far more powerful enemies to deal with.</p><p></p><p>I am pretty sure they even asked who those more powerful enemies were, and I used the opportunity to paraphase a rather common movie line, "If you know about them, they will have to kill you."</p><p></p><p>So even when "canon" was around, it didn't get in my way. I side stepped it if I wanted, and used it when I did want to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 5607431, member: 10177"] Stormomu. You've reminded me of another thing I have had as my experience with using published settings. Such as Dragonlance, or any other. When I have used them "canon" rarely even came up. They never ran into anyone I didn't want them to. They never went to a location I didn't want them to go to. When they were in Waterdeep, for one example, and tried to force a meeting with Khelben or whatever her name is (the one that lives with him, and is darn powerful in her own right), they weren't there. I had a magic mouth go off saying something like, "We are off saving the world, try to enter at your own PERIL!!" Its not that I never used Khelben, I simply didn't want them to meet him, besides, I didn't think he would take the time to meet some low level party off the street just "because". He does have far more important things to be doing. I'm pretty sure the player, maybe even it was more than one of them, were getting alittle miffed at my refusal to let them meet him. I think I even then said something to the effect of, "Why the heck would he even want to meet you? Your nobody. Your not on his radar at any range. Earn some reputation and maybe, just maybe, he will find you worth seeing." I do think they were the group, at a much later point, several levels, get approached by Khelben and get asked to take care of a problem that he thought they could handle, and that he really didn't want to take the time with, since he had more pressing matters with far more powerful enemies to deal with. I am pretty sure they even asked who those more powerful enemies were, and I used the opportunity to paraphase a rather common movie line, "If you know about them, they will have to kill you." So even when "canon" was around, it didn't get in my way. I side stepped it if I wanted, and used it when I did want to. [/QUOTE]
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