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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8811595" data-attributes="member: 52734">Funny you should mention that regarding Dragonlance... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There's a couple setting breaking points for me over the years that have made me stop following continuity:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Forgotten Realms after the Time of Troubles (I use the gray box and will never use the Time of Troubles)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ravenloft and the Grand Conjunction (and don't get me started about Vecna...)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Greyhawk after the Greyhawk Wars (just didn't see the point - another case of TSR pushing the metaplot to ruffle feathers)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonlance from Dragons of Summer Flame onward (Just never got into it and what came after)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dark Sun's second boxed set (it just went in a direction that trivialized the Tyr region)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Planescape's Faction War (what a way to destroy the whole campaign)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">L5R's Rokugan after the Scorpion Coup (things just started getting weird with the disappearing emperor and all)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Battlestar Galactica, the whole reboot (I got sick of watching people being unable to make good decisions even if they got slapped in the face with one)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Star Trek Deep Space Nine (based on a space station rip-off of Babylon 5? Just ugh)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bablylon 5 season five (yeah, it should have stopped with 4, and forget Crusade)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">and many, many others</li> </ul>What did I do each time?  I went back to what I liked and enjoyed that.  I'd occasionally pop up my head when something new came up and might give it a look.  Sometimes (Enterprise, Strange New Worlds), I'd find stuff I like.  If I didn't, I've learned to just avoid it.  Kvetch about it for a while until I reached acceptance.  In a few rare cases, years later I'd come around and actually like it (Deep Space 9).  There's plenty of other things - new and old - to happily spend my time on rather than wrestling with those who enjoy what I don't like.  Would I like to see something I like from those worlds?  Hell, yes - and sometimes I do, even if it's just a smaller part of the whole.  But, you can't have everything your way all the time - sometimes its time to either move on, or reverse gears and go back to what you do enjoy and not worry if you'll get some official support.  You just make up your own stuff, which is always better than what someone else does their way anyways.  At some point, someone will pick up the torch and change something you like as it is - and they'll ruin it.  But don't let it ruin your enjoyment; you already have what came before and they can't take it away from you.   For "you", that product is finished.  You have no compunction to take it farther than you enjoy it.</blockquote>

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