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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 7946013" data-attributes="member: 4534">If I'm playing in an established setting then the lore and continuity is important.  If it wasn't important I'd question why I was even playing a game in that setting.  I'm not going to run a Star Wars game where the PCs overthrow the Rebel Alliance, defeat Darth Vader, and spare the Emperor's life so they can keep him as an adviser.  In my Star Wars games the characters and events of the movies are pretty much going to play out as presented and my PCs are going to be involved in other stuff during that time.  Even when I think the lore is silly I pretty much roll with it if I like the game enough.  In Deadlands, the setting is an alternate history in the United States of 1876 where the dead walk the earth and the Civil War isn't over. I can buy demons, the undead gunslingers, and mad scientist inventing wild machines, but I have a hard time buying any alternate history where the South essentially wins the Civil War and is able to compete with the North when it comes to western expansion. There's only so much I can suspend my disbelief. Despite this, I never changed the lore but it was a rare game I ran that featured the conflicts between the CSA and USA.</blockquote>