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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7946729" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Not sure how to respond. When I’m running a game, I don’t care that much, but I do care about official lore in its own context. Ie, I care that Gnolls can only be ravening murder-beasts, and that the Raven Queen is an interloper in the cycle of death rather than a guardian of it, etc, in 5e, because it means I cannot use new lore for them in my games because it contradicts what I was using from previous editions.</p><p></p><p>And because it’s just senseless and obnoxious to change the basic nature of something just to make your own damn mark on the game.</p><p>Related rant; people who want to reinvent iconic culturally important characters like Superman or Spider-man or whatever shouldn’t be allowed to make flagship entries in their canon. Let them write a what-if story. OTOH, if they had casted Donald Glover as Peter Parker in the movies that ended up starring Garfield, I’d have been stoked for that. Nothing about “nerdy kid from Queens who is into photography and seems to have crummy luck in relationships and jobs and just wants to do right” speaks to any ethnicity. It doesn’t matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7946729, member: 6704184"] Not sure how to respond. When I’m running a game, I don’t care that much, but I do care about official lore in its own context. Ie, I care that Gnolls can only be ravening murder-beasts, and that the Raven Queen is an interloper in the cycle of death rather than a guardian of it, etc, in 5e, because it means I cannot use new lore for them in my games because it contradicts what I was using from previous editions. And because it’s just senseless and obnoxious to change the basic nature of something just to make your own damn mark on the game. Related rant; people who want to reinvent iconic culturally important characters like Superman or Spider-man or whatever shouldn’t be allowed to make flagship entries in their canon. Let them write a what-if story. OTOH, if they had casted Donald Glover as Peter Parker in the movies that ended up starring Garfield, I’d have been stoked for that. Nothing about “nerdy kid from Queens who is into photography and seems to have crummy luck in relationships and jobs and just wants to do right” speaks to any ethnicity. It doesn’t matter. [/QUOTE]
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