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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1377376" data-attributes="member: 6398">Not really what I'm asking... In either of the books, does the history/fluff present the events in DVD as actually happening, or does the material claim to have always been that way? Reason being that if the current Great Wheel set up is assumed to have never been what is was, then the events in DVD could not possibly have happen because the cosmology no longer supports it.  Creating a fictional way of explaining the change seems kinda pointless if the material doesn't acknowledge that a previous condition existed in the first place.  It can't be canon if it never actually happened even if the current condition is the same as the result of it occuring. Ya grok? If you're saying the new Grayhawk/Great Wheel canon will likely be more relevant to the game than Planescape/Planewalker canon, you are likely right. BTW, I thought that was GR's book...  Or are they simply doing something akin to the planes as well? Speculation, of course, but it does make you wonder sometimes why they bothered giving the "official conversion" licenses.  Granted, I hold nothing against the sites, but it seems that WotC tends to throw stuff out to the public involving all these different settings (via Dragon and the occassional paragraph buried in a non-Core book) without any consideration/correlation with those they granted licenses to.  I know I'd find that frustrating...  Would be hard to be taken seriously when you can wake up one day and find your work being contradicted by the only folks to have more weight on the topic.</blockquote>

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