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<blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4851218" data-attributes="member: 30678">No, I haven't said you can't criticize the Realms or that negative comments imply you are not &quot;getting&quot; the Realms; I *did*, however, note that when someone is talking about specific modules/characters/regions, I expect that he's done the research... *especially* if he's making statements along the lines of &quot;Designer/Author X sucks and NPC Y is just his DMPC&quot; or that &quot;Module Z sucks big time&quot;. For example, the adventure you're referring to is not (to my knowledge) written by Ed, and therefore that (horrible) scene with Elminster and the dog should not be attributed to his portrayal of El. It's canon, but then again, so is 'Once around the Realms' (which manages to misspell just about every other name in it, including Ao).I consider myself to be a &quot;canon lawyer&quot;, but I'm not above criticizing FR or changing the canon for my own campaigns (or accepting deviations from canon in other DMs' campaigns -- as long as there's more to it than just &quot;Silverymoon exploded a year ago and now there's a new city called Greyhawk built on top of it&quot;). I just hate it when people make statements on basis of prejudice and/or less than trustworthy internet sources.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Primal, post: 4851218, member: 30678"] No, I haven't said you can't criticize the Realms or that negative comments imply you are not "getting" the Realms; I *did*, however, note that when someone is talking about specific modules/characters/regions, I expect that he's done the research... *especially* if he's making statements along the lines of "Designer/Author X sucks and NPC Y is just his DMPC" or that "Module Z sucks big time". For example, the adventure you're referring to is not (to my knowledge) written by Ed, and therefore that (horrible) scene with Elminster and the dog should not be attributed to his portrayal of El. It's canon, but then again, so is 'Once around the Realms' (which manages to misspell just about every other name in it, including Ao). I consider myself to be a "canon lawyer", but I'm not above criticizing FR or changing the canon for my own campaigns (or accepting deviations from canon in other DMs' campaigns -- as long as there's more to it than just "Silverymoon exploded a year ago and now there's a new city called Greyhawk built on top of it"). I just hate it when people make statements on basis of prejudice and/or less than trustworthy internet sources. [/QUOTE]

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