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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6279373" data-attributes="member: 2067">I love being wrong sometimes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To slightly re-phrase your question, we might ask why that same effect precludes someone from being an organ donor in an opt-in system. The answer is that it doesn't preclude it. It makes it more difficult. It makes it more difficult to implement your "jackalweres are pseudo-egyptian" lore. (An example of that difficulty is how you need to keep saying no to people who are chugging along with the default). If D&D is supposed to be a game of imagination and storytelling, it should SUPPORT making your own lore, not make it harder. It should make it easier!Some of the reasons that specific lore in a monster entry is valuable include newbie-friendliness and DM inspiration, so is it possible to keep that and better support making your own lore?Totally. One way you could do that is by making your lore opt-in, not opt-out.One way you can do that is by being specific with your monster lore: "In Metamorphosis, Jackalweres were created by Grazz'zt" is opt-in: do you want the same story as this setting tells? Is it cool enough for you to yoink like you're yoinking from a million other bits of media and fiction to make your game?  "Jackalweres were created by Grazz'zt" is opt-out: do you want to pay the cost necessary to change this lore and then make everyone at your table do the same thing?</blockquote>

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