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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8596391" data-attributes="member: 58172">Notice, these are not 1e core rulebooks.They are precisely 1e optional content, like Dragon magazines. I myself in my 1e group have never opted into these books. I have read the 1e Deities & Demigods, and saw its misrepresentation of Norse tradition. It never made its way to our table. I never read the 1e Manual of the Planes, and neither feel some need to. The 1e core books are sufficient for worldbuilding, and inspirations for a world can come from anywhere.We know from the 1e Players Handbook and elsewhere, that the terms "god", "deity", and similar terms, are used improperly (and ethnocentrically) to mean any kind of sacred tradition of any culture.In any case, to try treat 1e as if some kind of "canon" is to profoundly misunderstand what 1e is. The point of 1e is to create ones own world of imagination. Any 1e content is strictly there for inspiration to spark the imagination for things that one might want for ones own world. Even the conflictive rules and flavors in the rulebooks are to spark new ideas. Maybe your world has laser guns or vampires or both or neither. There is no sense of obligation. 1e prioritizes worldbuilding, and makes imagination truly free. Everything is to inspire new ideas. The 2e concept of a setting canon is alien to 1e.</blockquote>