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Is Paladine Bahamut? Is Takhisis Tiamat? Fizban's Treasury Might Reveal The Answer!
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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8433517" data-attributes="member: 10148"><p>The only 5E books confirmed to be canon - the "public-facing" canon - are the current printings of the core rulebooks. Every single other 5E book (to include older printings of the core) is at best <em>possibly</em> canon, depending on what's currently part of their internal determination of canon. It also seems very likely at this point that the private canon does not include lore from some published 5E books, since otherwise they would have declared all 5E books to be canon (as was <a href="https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-canon-roleplaying-game-novels/" target="_blank">initially suggested</a>, in fact). We can also expect more 5E lore to be retired as it's supplanted by incompatible newer takes in newer books.</p><p></p><p>We now have a core canon that can change with each new printing, and a whole lot of other products that only might be canon, some of which could cease being canon at any time without notice. So while yes, there is technically a canon, it's pretty hard to say that it matters anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8433517, member: 10148"] The only 5E books confirmed to be canon - the "public-facing" canon - are the current printings of the core rulebooks. Every single other 5E book (to include older printings of the core) is at best [I]possibly[/I] canon, depending on what's currently part of their internal determination of canon. It also seems very likely at this point that the private canon does not include lore from some published 5E books, since otherwise they would have declared all 5E books to be canon (as was [URL='https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-canon-roleplaying-game-novels/']initially suggested[/URL], in fact). We can also expect more 5E lore to be retired as it's supplanted by incompatible newer takes in newer books. We now have a core canon that can change with each new printing, and a whole lot of other products that only might be canon, some of which could cease being canon at any time without notice. So while yes, there is technically a canon, it's pretty hard to say that it matters anymore. [/QUOTE]
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