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<blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3658093" data-attributes="member: 48692">Ooh, this is a fun issue.&nbsp; Your solution, my friend, can be found on page 297 of the 3E Forgotten Realms sourcebook.&nbsp; Whip it out and show it to any &quot;Canon Nazi&quot; that whines about your changing something.&nbsp; It says right there, in black and white (okay, black and beige<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />IT'S YOUR WORLD.&nbsp; To its tremendous credit, FR seems to be replying to the complaints about metaplot and Mary Sue-ish characters, and reminding people that the PCs are the stars, and that &quot;canon&quot; doesn't have to be what the novels say.&nbsp; No less than Ed Greenwood himself (since he co-authored the book, and no doubt had to have approved that saying, since it made it into the final edition) says that CANON CAN BE CHANGED.&nbsp; YOU, AS DM, HAVE THE FINAL SAY!I'd llke to see some Canon Nazi come up with a rebuttal to that!Similarly, if you're playing in Greyhawk, remember that Gary Gygax, the creator of the world, said on page 47 of the 1E DMG that he expected DMs to put their own spin on the setting!&nbsp; So, if you think a lot of post-From the Ashes canon is a big steaming pile (as I do, especially if it has the name Sean K. Reynolds on it), then change it!&nbsp; In a sense, you are being closer to the spirit of the game and the settings, the TRUE spirit, than any Canon Nazi, by chaning what you want.&nbsp; These settings are meant to be jumping-off points for your vision, to save you a lot of the drudge work if you don't have the time or inclination to build your own setting.&nbsp; If the Canon Nazis insist on working in every single novel and obscure supplement, they're perfeclty welcome to run their own game.&nbsp; My good buddy GVDammerung and I differ markedly on our visions of Greyhawk, but if we were ever to play in each others' games, I am sure we could both defer to the other's vision of the setting, depending on which of us is DMing.&nbsp; That's what good gaming is all about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CruelSummerLord, post: 3658093, member: 48692"] Ooh, this is a fun issue. Your solution, my friend, can be found on page 297 of the 3E Forgotten Realms sourcebook. Whip it out and show it to any "Canon Nazi" that whines about your changing something. It says right there, in black and white (okay, black and beige:) IT'S YOUR WORLD. To its tremendous credit, FR seems to be replying to the complaints about metaplot and Mary Sue-ish characters, and reminding people that the PCs are the stars, and that "canon" doesn't have to be what the novels say. No less than Ed Greenwood himself (since he co-authored the book, and no doubt had to have approved that saying, since it made it into the final edition) says that [I][U][B]CANON CAN BE CHANGED. YOU, AS DM, HAVE THE FINAL SAY![/B][/U][/I] I'd llke to see some Canon Nazi come up with a rebuttal to that! Similarly, if you're playing in Greyhawk, remember that Gary Gygax, the creator of the world, said on page 47 of the 1E DMG that he expected DMs to put their own spin on the setting! So, if you think a lot of post-From the Ashes canon is a big steaming pile (as I do, especially if it has the name Sean K. Reynolds on it), then change it! In a sense, you are being closer to the spirit of the game and the settings, the TRUE spirit, than any Canon Nazi, by chaning what you want. These settings are meant to be jumping-off points for your vision, to save you a lot of the drudge work if you don't have the time or inclination to build your own setting. If the Canon Nazis insist on working in every single novel and obscure supplement, they're perfeclty welcome to run their own game. My good buddy GVDammerung and I differ markedly on our visions of Greyhawk, but if we were ever to play in each others' games, I am sure we could both defer to the other's vision of the setting, depending on which of us is DMing. That's what good gaming is all about. [/QUOTE]

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