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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8531027" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Yeah, it is pretty much the old &quot;draw maps, leave holes&quot; formula. You want myth which can be harnessed easily to produce scene framing by supplying tropes, conflict drivers, color, etc. but you don't want a CANON which tries to inform everything and thus gets in the way of constructing fiction that will best serve the immediate story. Its fine if we know there are 'giants' out there. OTOH what is the relationship of giants to dragons? We will play and find out! Maybe we know they are both 'Chaos Creatures' or something, technically, but without excessive canon we can find out to our mutual entertainment that actually the dragon Nightfang really hates the ruler of the Frost Giants, and generally kills them on sight! If this were canonical, who knows if it would cut for or against any particular needs in play, and its just one more way that the story becomes owned by someone else who isn't even at the table!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8531027, member: 82106"] Yeah, it is pretty much the old "draw maps, leave holes" formula. You want myth which can be harnessed easily to produce scene framing by supplying tropes, conflict drivers, color, etc. but you don't want a CANON which tries to inform everything and thus gets in the way of constructing fiction that will best serve the immediate story. Its fine if we know there are 'giants' out there. OTOH what is the relationship of giants to dragons? We will play and find out! Maybe we know they are both 'Chaos Creatures' or something, technically, but without excessive canon we can find out to our mutual entertainment that actually the dragon Nightfang really hates the ruler of the Frost Giants, and generally kills them on sight! If this were canonical, who knows if it would cut for or against any particular needs in play, and its just one more way that the story becomes owned by someone else who isn't even at the table! [/QUOTE]

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