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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4910929" data-attributes="member: 2067">You're right that it's not unique to FR, but almost no matter where it's done, it's annoying. It's like the cliche of having George Takei answer angry continuity questions at a Trek convention. You've taken all the fun out of make-believe storytelling. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Now, that's the view from the outside. I'm well aware that some people have a lot of fun plumbing the lore depths of their favorite X. That's fine and good and neat and shouldn't be invalidated haphazardly in the official documents.But you should be able to take off the truefan hat and enjoy the game regardless. If you can't, that kind of is a problem because it functionally means that no one else can make that setting their own. It's yours, not theirs. In D&D, that's part and parcel of the fun of running a game: adapting it for your own group. As a less-dorky example, I have a roommate who is crazy into the Beatles. She gets really angry whenever someone claims to be really into the Beatles, and she kind of enters this one-upmanship of "who loves them more" with the person, an impromptu trivia quiz and rattling off of facts and things. This can be an issue, because she doesn't let people appreciate the Beatles on their own level: it has to be on HER terms, they can't have their OWN experiences with the band. I have to beat her about the neck and face on a regular basis for it, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> He's allowed to have his own Beatles experience. Your DM is allowed to run his own FR experience.Sometimes you read the book and you choose to go a different route for your own purposes. For instance, perhaps the DM wants to put their own leader in charge so that said leader can be evil.Sometimes you read it and you don't care for it. "Oh. It's boring to have the only public churches being non-Evil ones. Let's add some evil ones."Sometimes you read it but don't remember it "What was the name of this king?"Sometimes you don't read it because another part interests you more. "Nobody cares what the ruler's name is, because that's not what the game is about this time!"The idea is, of course, that as a DM, you get to choose what exists and what doesn't.The written material never trumps the DM's say-so, be it in a rule or in the fluff.</blockquote>

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