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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8832712" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>This is getting very Quixotic, like how Cervantes made Don say he wasn't that other guy pretending to be Don Quixote after some other writer wrote a fanfic unofficial sequel, even though both writers had claimed in their texts that they were just uncovering old manuscripts of a true story…</p><p></p><p>Does it really matter for your D&D table whether WotC thinks Takhesis is Tiamat or Weiss thinks she isn't?</p><p>Does it really matter for Weiss' new novels what WotC's stance is?</p><p></p><p>Isn't D&D a game about making it your own?</p><p></p><p>WotC has marketing reasons to try to unmuddy the waters and tied Krynn closer to the rest of their brand. But Weiss has her own reasons to make Takhesis separate. Ultimately, how much of this big picture multiversal question is going to affect your table when you play <em>Shadow of the Dragon Queen </em>or <em>Tyranny of Dragons</em>? How much is going to affect your table when you play homebrew, which may not even have Tiamat in it? How hard is it to ignore or adapt what is written? Isn't that what EVERYONE does to some extent?</p><p></p><p>Why do we need to agree on one canonical answer when D&D is shared storytelling?</p><p></p><p>Even WotC agrees that their crossovers between <em>Dungeons & Dragons</em> and <em>Magic: The Gathering</em> are not canonical to both storylines at once (Acquisitions, Inc. may have an office in Ravnica in D&D, but they don't exist in the <em>Magic Story</em>; Mordenkainen and Drizzt are Planeswalkers in the <em>D&D Magic </em>sets but that doesn't mean they have the Spark but rather that they are prominent planar travellers in D&D…).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8832712, member: 6803643"] This is getting very Quixotic, like how Cervantes made Don say he wasn't that other guy pretending to be Don Quixote after some other writer wrote a fanfic unofficial sequel, even though both writers had claimed in their texts that they were just uncovering old manuscripts of a true story… Does it really matter for your D&D table whether WotC thinks Takhesis is Tiamat or Weiss thinks she isn't? Does it really matter for Weiss' new novels what WotC's stance is? Isn't D&D a game about making it your own? WotC has marketing reasons to try to unmuddy the waters and tied Krynn closer to the rest of their brand. But Weiss has her own reasons to make Takhesis separate. Ultimately, how much of this big picture multiversal question is going to affect your table when you play [I]Shadow of the Dragon Queen [/I]or [I]Tyranny of Dragons[/I]? How much is going to affect your table when you play homebrew, which may not even have Tiamat in it? How hard is it to ignore or adapt what is written? Isn't that what EVERYONE does to some extent? Why do we need to agree on one canonical answer when D&D is shared storytelling? Even WotC agrees that their crossovers between [I]Dungeons & Dragons[/I] and [I]Magic: The Gathering[/I] are not canonical to both storylines at once (Acquisitions, Inc. may have an office in Ravnica in D&D, but they don't exist in the [I]Magic Story[/I]; Mordenkainen and Drizzt are Planeswalkers in the [I]D&D Magic [/I]sets but that doesn't mean they have the Spark but rather that they are prominent planar travellers in D&D…). [/QUOTE]
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