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<blockquote data-quote="mach1.9pants" data-source="post: 4016358" data-attributes="member: 55946"><p>One of my little pet peeves is the relatively common innacuracies in fluff of various sorts that turn up in DnD products. This has gone on for ever and is easily sorted with some sort of reference to previous products. </p><p>For Example: my DnD involvement started with reading Time of the Twins from DragonLance and I have read many books and most rulesbooks related to DL. I must have read half a dozen different versions of Lord Soths story, to me thats very annoying. I think that in the first DL rulebook they even had Huma being alive a few hundred years before Solamnia was even founded; IIRC.</p><p></p><p>Now in the new edition we have ONLY 2 books out and the back story to the Dwarves is already mucked up. Now I don't mind when they say, one legend/myth/whatever says this. And in the other book, some stories say that. However we have 2 conflicting versions of the History of the Dwarves and Moradin. Basically:</p><p></p><p>Races and Classes: Moradin made the Dwarves; Moradin gave the Primordials their own Dwarves when they asked; nasty Primordials gave the Dwarves as slaves to their Giants; Dwarves lamented; Moradin could not hear them 'cos he was too busy hammering; when the Gods went to war with the Primordials Moradin saw the nastiness of Primordials/Giants and helped the Gods defeat them.</p><p></p><p>Worlds and Monsters: Primordials made Titans made Giants; <strong>Giants saw the Dwarves that Moradin had made and overwhelmed and enslaved them</strong>; <strong>Moradin too scared to help Dwarves vs all the Primordials etc</strong>;<strong>Moradin whispered support to Dwarves during their enslavement</strong>; During the God/Primordial war Dwarves rose up against the Giants.</p><p></p><p>Now these are 2 entirely DIFFERENT stories, both presented as History & FACT- not Myth, not Legend, not as a possible version. That annoys the hell out of me. Which story is right? Why didn't the editor of the second book read the first and either modify her version to be the same or give a reason for the difference.</p><p></p><p>As I said I don't mind when there are many stories about how things came to be (I love the multi-storied Warhammer idea, for example) but I think it is appallingly sloppy and unprofessional when they just make a balls of something this simple.</p><p></p><p>Is there anyone else out there to whom this really annoys, or am I just too pedantic! </p><p>Anyone else picked up other glaring 'errors' of editing/ sticking to a reference?</p><p>What do you think the best version is (myself: the first one) and which is the truth?</p><p>/RANT COMPLETE</p><p></p><p>ps I know it doesn't really matter but it is just <em>soooo</em> annoying!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mach1.9pants, post: 4016358, member: 55946"] One of my little pet peeves is the relatively common innacuracies in fluff of various sorts that turn up in DnD products. This has gone on for ever and is easily sorted with some sort of reference to previous products. For Example: my DnD involvement started with reading Time of the Twins from DragonLance and I have read many books and most rulesbooks related to DL. I must have read half a dozen different versions of Lord Soths story, to me thats very annoying. I think that in the first DL rulebook they even had Huma being alive a few hundred years before Solamnia was even founded; IIRC. Now in the new edition we have ONLY 2 books out and the back story to the Dwarves is already mucked up. Now I don't mind when they say, one legend/myth/whatever says this. And in the other book, some stories say that. However we have 2 conflicting versions of the History of the Dwarves and Moradin. Basically: Races and Classes: Moradin made the Dwarves; Moradin gave the Primordials their own Dwarves when they asked; nasty Primordials gave the Dwarves as slaves to their Giants; Dwarves lamented; Moradin could not hear them 'cos he was too busy hammering; when the Gods went to war with the Primordials Moradin saw the nastiness of Primordials/Giants and helped the Gods defeat them. Worlds and Monsters: Primordials made Titans made Giants; [b]Giants saw the Dwarves that Moradin had made and overwhelmed and enslaved them[/b]; [b]Moradin too scared to help Dwarves vs all the Primordials etc[/b];[b]Moradin whispered support to Dwarves during their enslavement[/b]; During the God/Primordial war Dwarves rose up against the Giants. Now these are 2 entirely DIFFERENT stories, both presented as History & FACT- not Myth, not Legend, not as a possible version. That annoys the hell out of me. Which story is right? Why didn't the editor of the second book read the first and either modify her version to be the same or give a reason for the difference. As I said I don't mind when there are many stories about how things came to be (I love the multi-storied Warhammer idea, for example) but I think it is appallingly sloppy and unprofessional when they just make a balls of something this simple. Is there anyone else out there to whom this really annoys, or am I just too pedantic! Anyone else picked up other glaring 'errors' of editing/ sticking to a reference? What do you think the best version is (myself: the first one) and which is the truth? /RANT COMPLETE ps I know it doesn't really matter but it is just [i]soooo[/i] annoying! [/QUOTE]
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