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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 8436388" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>Does anybody else find the concept of "canonicity" in D&D to be overwhelmingly silly? It's always been <em>the DM's world</em> first.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it's just me. I never played in any of the "official" settings growing up. I have no particular feelings of nostalgia (or anything else) for Greyhawk or the Realms or DragonLance. Planescape and Spelljammer and Dark Sun always struck me as too bizarre to pay attention to (although Dark Sun definitely has a cool aesthetic). Most other settings, like Birthright, just slipped beneath my notice. For my friends and I, worldbuilding new settings of our own creation was always half the point of setting up a D&D campaign in the first place. And in doing so, we certainly didn't pay any heed to the official "lore" of D&D, whether it came from core rulebooks or Sage Advice or Gary himself.</p><p></p><p>I've run an RPG set in an official, published setting just once in my life—Mystara—and honestly, I found the volume of information about the setting more hindrance than help. Reading up on a preexisting game-world takes so much more effort than just creating your own! So I certainly have no interest in ever using published settings again in the future.</p><p></p><p>Why the sudden surge of interest in canonicity? I don't want sound like a curmudgeon railing against the "kids these days," but it <em>does</em> seem that the sudden infusion of "new blood" into the hobby at large has come with some baggage—namely, internet fan-culture of the Tumblr/AO3/whatever else the young nerds these days use for online freeform roleplay and arguing about 'shipping wars variety. And then (mis)applying that perspective to D&D, in a way that previous generations of fans largely didn't (probably because they were too busy having canonicity arguments about <em>Star Trek</em> and the old <em>Star Wars</em> EU, but I digress).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 8436388, member: 694"] Does anybody else find the concept of "canonicity" in D&D to be overwhelmingly silly? It's always been [I]the DM's world[/I] first. Maybe it's just me. I never played in any of the "official" settings growing up. I have no particular feelings of nostalgia (or anything else) for Greyhawk or the Realms or DragonLance. Planescape and Spelljammer and Dark Sun always struck me as too bizarre to pay attention to (although Dark Sun definitely has a cool aesthetic). Most other settings, like Birthright, just slipped beneath my notice. For my friends and I, worldbuilding new settings of our own creation was always half the point of setting up a D&D campaign in the first place. And in doing so, we certainly didn't pay any heed to the official "lore" of D&D, whether it came from core rulebooks or Sage Advice or Gary himself. I've run an RPG set in an official, published setting just once in my life—Mystara—and honestly, I found the volume of information about the setting more hindrance than help. Reading up on a preexisting game-world takes so much more effort than just creating your own! So I certainly have no interest in ever using published settings again in the future. Why the sudden surge of interest in canonicity? I don't want sound like a curmudgeon railing against the "kids these days," but it [I]does[/I] seem that the sudden infusion of "new blood" into the hobby at large has come with some baggage—namely, internet fan-culture of the Tumblr/AO3/whatever else the young nerds these days use for online freeform roleplay and arguing about 'shipping wars variety. And then (mis)applying that perspective to D&D, in a way that previous generations of fans largely didn't (probably because they were too busy having canonicity arguments about [I]Star Trek[/I] and the old [I]Star Wars[/I] EU, but I digress). [/QUOTE]
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