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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9502174" data-attributes="member: 58172">Canonists have great difficulty coping with change. Because, the entire reality is interpreted and understood thru the paradigm − the lense − the mode of cognition − of the canon.The main method for how canonists change is by means of a "close reading".They reread the precise wording of a piece of original text, in a way that is probably unintended by the original authorship. Then they use this new understanding of the text, to frame a context, within which they can pivot the entire canon around, in the direction of the necessary change.In a complex multi-sourced kitchen-sink gonzo setting like Greyhawk the pivoting of close reading is effortless. Because. Somewhere in the sea of text, the change already exists in some sense. The future canonists only need to mention it, emphasize it, and attend to it.Hence Tiefling and Dragonborn are seemless. They are already potentially present via the Fiends and Dragons who are present.</blockquote>