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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 3793695" data-attributes="member: 7624">It certainly has been and this is why people's need for core/cannon affirmation of their pet concepts bugs the bejeebus out of me. When I see that, for example, Monte Cook is paid to create a book for WoTC fluff and all, he is of course accessing in his mind what HE would like to see in both mechanics and lore. Of course because he is a pro his mechanics are good (better than mine would likely be for certain) but his lore may be good or <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /> based on the reader's subjective opinion. However, does this mean that just because his writings become cannon that his ideas are better than another DM whose ideas don't get published by WoTC? I don't think so.When one looks at Monte's Ptolus setting one is looking at his home campaign snazzied up for mass consumption. I loved the production values and likes some of the lore, but much of if it I found distinctly pedestrian and nothing at all noteworthy. Looking at FR, one sees a setting that is the homebrew of Ed Greenwood and many other authors whose work becomes canon as they write novels and game materials to support the setting.4e lore IS certainly going to smack of either the homebrews of the designers or the homebrew they wished they had the time to run if they weren't always so busy with WoTC projects. I would do the same thing. Its a dream job to actually have the opportunity to make your homebrew ideas into cannon. EVERYONE READING THIS...please realize that no one else's lore is going to completely satisfy you. In order to be 100% satisfied you have to do the grunt work yourself and it will take plenty of work to get it right. Barring that use what others provide knowing that at the end of the day there is nothing better about what is in the bright shiney new book than what lies in your own imagination......unless it is.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Sundragon</blockquote>

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