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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9489882" data-attributes="member: 2209">Well for setting canon there is a difference between setting sourcebooks like the LGG and potential scenarios like the adventure paths.RPG modules are generally designed to be potentials for your group to play prospectively and not agreed upon facts of the world the way that setting sourcebooks are designed to do. So it can be reasonable to say LGG is setting canon but not the Age of Worms events.But modules do have setting aspects too, such as where locations are and background facts.So a number of people might say that the Temple of Elemental Evil canonically exists in a specific place and Zuggtmoy was imprisoned beneath it, but not say that T1-4 establishes canonically what happens to Zuggtmoy in the setting. You can still place the temple elsewhere for your game, that just means a number of people would say your campaign deviates from setting canon in that detail.Also there is the aspect of timeline advancement, 3e timeline advanced Greyhawk Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil assumes that 1e original setting prior era T1-4 has happened, the 2e setting boxed set From the Ashes assumes that the events of the two Vatun/Iuz modules happened to set off the Greyhawk Wars, and so forth.Paizo did it a little differently with their APs and Golarion canon. Each real life year advances the timeline in the setting one year and each AP is set in a specific year. Canonically Golarion assumes the APs happened and the world did not end, but also keep it vague on specifics like who the mythic heroes who stopped the demon apocalypse were. The one off module events though are not really incorporated into the setting, though setting details generally are.So modules are messy when it comes to canon.</blockquote>

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