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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8349403" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>Wow, hot off the presses! Is Crawford reading this thread? Jeremy?</p><p></p><p>While the article directly quotes Crawford on this, I don't think it quite captures how WotC treats D&D canon. Setting, story, and characters from pre-5E, from the novels, and other licensed properties . . . it's not that they aren't canon at all, but more quasi-canon. They <em>kinda-sorta</em> happened . . . if you, as the gamer, want them to in your own game . . . but also if WotC decides to use those elements in a 5E product. Not unlike how Disney treats the now "Legends" canon before they acquired Lucasfilm.</p><p></p><p>WotC can certainly decide to pull something from an earlier source, or from a novel, and decide to change it . . . but how often does that really happen? The Drizzt novels that Bob Salvatore is still writing adhere pretty closely to current D&D canon, in fact the next novel, Starlight Enclave, is introducing the new drow subraces that are clearly intended to be new D&D canon. On the other hand, I doubt much of the story from the recent Dark Alliance video game is going to become canon.</p><p></p><p>I think certain aspects of the D&D franchise have a degree of "distance" from canon. The popular Drizzt novels are practically adjacent to full canon. As are the comics featuring Minsc and his adventuring buddies. But older D&D products (of any sort) have a greater distance. Video games probably have the most distance, as they serve such different needs from novels, comics, and RPG books.</p><p></p><p>But still, I appreciate the official word. That officially only 100% canonical sources are the 5E RPG books, everything else is some degree of maybe. And regardless of even official canon, feel free to toss it all out the window for your home games if you want!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8349403, member: 18182"] Wow, hot off the presses! Is Crawford reading this thread? Jeremy? While the article directly quotes Crawford on this, I don't think it quite captures how WotC treats D&D canon. Setting, story, and characters from pre-5E, from the novels, and other licensed properties . . . it's not that they aren't canon at all, but more quasi-canon. They [I]kinda-sorta[/I] happened . . . if you, as the gamer, want them to in your own game . . . but also if WotC decides to use those elements in a 5E product. Not unlike how Disney treats the now "Legends" canon before they acquired Lucasfilm. WotC can certainly decide to pull something from an earlier source, or from a novel, and decide to change it . . . but how often does that really happen? The Drizzt novels that Bob Salvatore is still writing adhere pretty closely to current D&D canon, in fact the next novel, Starlight Enclave, is introducing the new drow subraces that are clearly intended to be new D&D canon. On the other hand, I doubt much of the story from the recent Dark Alliance video game is going to become canon. I think certain aspects of the D&D franchise have a degree of "distance" from canon. The popular Drizzt novels are practically adjacent to full canon. As are the comics featuring Minsc and his adventuring buddies. But older D&D products (of any sort) have a greater distance. Video games probably have the most distance, as they serve such different needs from novels, comics, and RPG books. But still, I appreciate the official word. That officially only 100% canonical sources are the 5E RPG books, everything else is some degree of maybe. And regardless of even official canon, feel free to toss it all out the window for your home games if you want! [/QUOTE]
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