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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8348968" data-attributes="member: 7006">How?  How is it affecting anything?  Are you being forced to change your game because the books say this one thing?  Did this force Keith Baker to write in the Rising of the Last War book "Here is the Eberron cosmology, but don't worry about it and just ignore it because it's now nothing more than a curiosity that is meaningless to Eberron since the cosmology in the DMG takes precedence over everything"?Nothing in these books that are being written is affecting anything anywhere... except in the minds of that small select band of players who for whatever reason seem to need to have this one Grand Theory of Everything where every single bit of lore ever written is all true and immutable and is one single comprehensive lore "thing".  If it's written in a book, then it's real, and we have no say in the matter.  Even if we don't like what was written.But for the other 99.99% of us?  We just don't care.  Lore in any book does not matter.  Because the MOMENT one of our players in one of our games goes out and... kills Drizzt... that Grand Theory no longer applies.  In our game, Drizzt is dead.  And while other people might scream from the mountaintops "No!  He's not dead!  He's not!  What happens in your world isn't the REAL LORE!  The OFFICIAL LORE says he is still alive!  Bob Salvatore is still writing books about him!  Drizzt lives!!!"... I'll just shrug my shoulders and say "Sure... in THAT PART of the D&D Multiverse, Drizzt Do'Urden is alive.  In MY part of the Multiverse, he is worm food."And there ain't nothing no one can say to change that fact.</blockquote>

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