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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3657097" data-attributes="member: 9037">This is one of the reasons I prefer to homebrew so that I don't have to deal with players who are canon fanatics. In worlds like Forgotten Realms there is so much change that happenes that sometimes it is impossible to keep up.It is why the only setting I will run in is Kalamar because of its static timeline. I love it because once you get stared in play your players change the world it becomes your Kalamar game and it won't look like anyone else's Kalamar game. I also like that they don't stat out every important NPC take Kabori in one game I played in he was an evil human bent on world conquest in my game he is actually a good guy who is being controlled by his evil advisors. Neither conflicts with canon.How I think you should handle canon fanatics is to talk to them before the game let them know that things are going to be changed and what things are going to be changed. If they can't handle it then politely tell them that this is not the game for them. Before I told them I would try and find out why there was such an issue over it. If is because they like knowing what is going on so they can role play and develop their character better then I would spend the time to write up what the changes are so they have access to it.As a player I would be upset if I was told we are going to play Eberron and I go and make a character and do its background only to find out that no Cyre wasn't destroyed it was Breland and there are no airships or warforged and magic is rare and dragonmarked people are hunted and burned at the stake. See at that point you are not playing Eberron you are doing a homevrew with some Eberron flavor. As a player it would frustrate me because I would constantly feel lost. Now if a DM said I want to play Eberron but I want to set the game in the middle of the war so this has not happened yet I would think cool let's do it.As someone else said if you are going to change the canon let your players know ahead of time don't wait until they are in the middle of play and say oh by the way this is changed.</blockquote>

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