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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8232248" data-attributes="member: 7635">Part of the problem is that you can't dismiss canonical sources simply because you don't like them when discussing elements of the setting. For example, I can draw a hard line between the Star Wars Original Trilogy (which I adore), the Prequels (which my opinion is more nuanced on) and the Sequels (which I have grown to loathe) but when discussing Star Wars lore, I have to begrudgingly accept that all Nine films are cannon. I don't simply dismiss Luke's characterization in The Last Jedi didn't happen, even if I desperately wished it hadn't. In your own game, you can use Ravenloft however you wish and if you want to only use pre-95 sources, that is valid and you are perfectly within your rights to. You can also decide you want to use one of the two noncanonical origins of Tristan Hiregaard instead and nobody will care. However, when discussing the setting in an open forum, you have to at least accept that the parts of the setting that you don't like are still part of it. You can dislike that additional elements were added to the setting like the overt Hitler elements of Drakov or the changes to Gabrielle Adierre, but its kinda disingenuous to say "Well, I don't have a problem with it because I don't accept those parts as real." If that's the criteria, the only true Star Wars movies are the six that begin with the 20th Century Fox Fanfare. (and this is not to pick on you specifically, there were several comments through this tread that has dismissed criticisms with "oh, that was a later book")</blockquote>

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