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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9383634" data-attributes="member: 93670">Steffan already explained this in 115 but I'd take the clarification a step further. By all indications none of us are playing in each other's campaigns &amp; any discussion is either about what is actually published or things that are effectively impossible to discuss any deeper than &quot;well I wrote this thing&quot;&gt;&quot;ok I didn't or wrote something else and neither of our games is affected by the other&quot;. For whatever reason a lot of people like to expect people not in their game to treat &quot;well I wrote this thing&quot; as if it were more like &quot;well this exact thing was published in xxx and I expect you to accept it&quot; even though the only real response to a disagreement over a headcannon &quot;well I wrote this thing&quot; can't really go much further than &quot;well I didn't and don't play at your table&quot;.&nbsp; Differentiating cannon &amp; headcannon is an easy way of avoiding that problem while adding the potentially relevant &quot;&quot;i wrote this thing&quot; element to a discussion without undue expectations for it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9383634, member: 93670"] Steffan already explained this in 115 but I'd take the clarification a step further. By all indications none of us are playing in each other's campaigns & any discussion is either about what is actually published or things that are effectively impossible to discuss any deeper than "well I wrote this thing">"ok I didn't or wrote something else and neither of our games is affected by the other". For whatever reason a lot of people like to expect people not in their game to treat "well I wrote this thing" as if it were more like "well this exact thing was published in xxx and I expect you to accept it" even though the only real response to a disagreement over a headcannon "well I wrote this thing" can't really go much further than "well I didn't and don't play at your table". Differentiating cannon & headcannon is an easy way of avoiding that problem while adding the potentially relevant ""i wrote this thing" element to a discussion without undue expectations for it. [/QUOTE]

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