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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 8436459" data-attributes="member: 7015558">First, I'm totally surprised my thread has gotten resurrected. I probably care even less about canon now since I first wrote this.Second, canon is like I originally said, a series of guidelines. Lore doesn't dictate anything; the DM does. If you want to use the canon to help your games, you can. If you don't like it, throw it away.Your second part doesn't make much sense at all to me. You say D&D canon having space vehicles and laser guns would change the game... but D&D modules have had those things before. Did it change D&D? Maybe on the margins, sure. And even if they were plastered all over the PHB and DMG, doesn't mean I can't disallow that stuff in my game (or the reverse).And what you've described about Lord of the Rings, Conan, Elder Scrolls all having more similarities than differences... I agree! Not sure what that has to do with canon though, as opposed to fantasy genre. Genre and canon are very different things.</blockquote>