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<blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 3932224" data-attributes="member: 10095">This makes me think you don't really understand the different between a reimagining and metaplot/retcons. One has you starting from scratch and redoing the entire thing differently, with different themes, but with a few familiar points (BSG, for example). The other has you making changes that were &quot;always like that&quot; (retcons) or are due to continuation in the storyline (metaplot).Map Changes - RetconElminster's Appearance - Metaplot (he undergoes some changes in Elminster in Hell, like the loss of his beloved hat and the shortening of the beard)Cosmology - Retcon (fixes the mistake of shoe-horning the Realms into Greyhawks' great wheel)Red Wizards - Metaplot (best way to get spies everywhere is for them to provide people with a useful service)And if 5 changes, one of which is so minor as to be laughable (OMG, Elminster might not look like every other Gandalf clone in artwork), constitutes a &quot;reimagining,&quot; then the change from 1e-2e was rather devastating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Little Raven, post: 3932224, member: 10095"] This makes me think you don't really understand the different between a reimagining and metaplot/retcons. One has you starting from scratch and redoing the entire thing differently, with different themes, but with a few familiar points (BSG, for example). The other has you making changes that were "always like that" (retcons) or are due to continuation in the storyline (metaplot). Map Changes - Retcon Elminster's Appearance - Metaplot (he undergoes some changes in Elminster in Hell, like the loss of his beloved hat and the shortening of the beard) Cosmology - Retcon (fixes the mistake of shoe-horning the Realms into Greyhawks' great wheel) Red Wizards - Metaplot (best way to get spies everywhere is for them to provide people with a useful service) And if 5 changes, one of which is so minor as to be laughable (OMG, Elminster might not look like every other Gandalf clone in artwork), constitutes a "reimagining," then the change from 1e-2e was rather devastating. [/QUOTE]

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