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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6396990" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>No one is asking for the "official version" to be changed. [MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION] is complaining that departures from the "official version" don't get published. And I'm arguing that changes to the "official version" are certainly permissible, and often desirable, and hence when they occur don't amount to "disrespect" or a failure of "integrity" on the part of the designers.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree with Hussar here. And I like the idea that, in the new MM, the Blood War has become a resource for new D&Ders to make of as they wish. (A bit like Bahamut's home, in the original MM, being beyond the East Wind.)</p><p></p><p>And part of that flexibility is that WotC can publish Book A in which the Sword Mountains are this one thing, and Book B in which the Sword Mountains are this other thing.</p><p></p><p>It is the apparent reluctance to do this for planar elements that is at the heart of Hussar's complaint about Planescape's dominance of planar material. And it is objections to this that I see as at the heart of complaints about 4e.</p><p></p><p>Because I agree with the flexibility point, I don't feel the force of the objections to 4e, and claims about "invalidation"; and I tend to sympathise with Hussar's complaint.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6396990, member: 42582"] No one is asking for the "official version" to be changed. [MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION] is complaining that departures from the "official version" don't get published. And I'm arguing that changes to the "official version" are certainly permissible, and often desirable, and hence when they occur don't amount to "disrespect" or a failure of "integrity" on the part of the designers. I agree with Hussar here. And I like the idea that, in the new MM, the Blood War has become a resource for new D&Ders to make of as they wish. (A bit like Bahamut's home, in the original MM, being beyond the East Wind.) And part of that flexibility is that WotC can publish Book A in which the Sword Mountains are this one thing, and Book B in which the Sword Mountains are this other thing. It is the apparent reluctance to do this for planar elements that is at the heart of Hussar's complaint about Planescape's dominance of planar material. And it is objections to this that I see as at the heart of complaints about 4e. Because I agree with the flexibility point, I don't feel the force of the objections to 4e, and claims about "invalidation"; and I tend to sympathise with Hussar's complaint. [/QUOTE]
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