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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 4727834" data-attributes="member: 2198">You said:...which I read as saying that writers should only look at the "quality" lore and ignore the rest.With over 20 years of published material (including novel lines and Dragon articles), I don't think it's so simple.  Also, information about topics tends to get spread around; it's not enough to simply look at the stuff that is supposed to be focusing on the subject.  I see this a lot in Eberron, where information on the structure of the Church of the Silver Flame can be found in the ECS, the Eberron Player's Guide, Sharn: City of Towers, Five Nations, and Faiths of Eberron (some of it contradictory).  And there's probably other details added in other books that I don't own, as well...  It's not as simple as saying, "Oh, Silver Flame, I'll grab the ECS and Faiths of Eberron and I'm good."No argument there.  I think they could have achieved much of the same results, with less outcry, simply by advancing the timeline far enough and retconning the edition differences (in much the same way as sorcerers were retconned in and specialty priests retconned out with 3e).Unless I've simply missed a ton of WotC's marketing, that number looks to be at least two times too large.</blockquote>