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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feathercircle" data-source="post: 2437327" data-attributes="member: 11266">I view canon the way I view the alignment system- it should be a tool rather than a straightjacket, and it exists to help establish baseline assumptions.  To people familiar with it, it's a great shorthand and a good starting point.   It's much easier to say "Oh, we're playing a Planescape:Torment based campaign and using the Psionics is Different option" or "It's basically standard "generic" D&D except that dwarves are the most magely of the races and kobolds are playable and a part of respectable society" than to throw someone in the deep end and describing every minute assumption of the setting.... though some people will occasionally want you to provide that level of detail.   Canon is good so that you don't go in expecting one thing and getting another.  I don't want to create a cleric of Lathander for a Realms campaign and then find out that we're playing without deities.  I don't want to go in with a sorcerer and plans to become a Dragon Disciple and find out halfway into the game that the DM thinks that all dragons, even metallics, should be always evil.  I ESPECIALLY don't want to have a repeat of the campaign with the DM who arbitrarily changed spell descriptions on us and didn't tell us about it until after we'd selected and cast them and couldn't trade them out.Want necromentals?  Sure, go ahead.  Want a monotheistic campaign with one true god?  Fine by me.  Want Maanzecorian to still be alive in your campaign?  Cool.  Want to use a completely different magic system of your own devising?  Great, just let me know beforehand.  I'm completely fine with deviations from canon or several completely incompatable canons coexisting side by side.  I'm an anime fan- some series have upwards of half a dozen different versions to work from.  Great Wheel vs 3E Faerun's Tree vs Eberron cosmology is small potatos by comparison.  I'd just appreciate knowing when I should be expecting something different.</blockquote>

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