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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mystaros" data-source="post: 718813" data-attributes="member: 3921">Oy! Canon versus non-Canon. We have had so many arguments about Canon on the Mystara Mailing List since, well, day one of the list it isn't even funny. More bandwidth ahs been spent on that than anything. Let me just say that the Hacklopedia Mystarica will be Canon for the HackMaster version of Mystara, not for the D&D/AD&D version of Mystara. As with anything HackMaster, when playing in an official HMA game, characters set in the HackWurld would have to conform to Canon HackWurld. In personal, private games, they could use whatever they want, in their own variations thereof...Names of nations and cultures will not change. It will be a direct continuation in the basics of the setting, but the essence of it will be HackMasterized. More Mystaran than Mystara is the mantra here. For example, you could look at a barbarian from the HackWurld Soderfjord Jarldoms and look at a barbarian from the classic Known World Soderfjord Jarldoms and know, right away, that the HackWurld version could wuss-slap the Known World version into the next century. A HackWurld Darokin merchant would be able to trade with a Known World Darokin merchant, and leave the Known World merchant with nothing but a fig leaf. And so forth.I'm only working on the Hacklopedia Mystarica, I am afraid. I can't really say anything about Greyhack.</blockquote>