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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 7687255" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>One part of the podcast that didn't make Morrus's transcription is significant, I think:</p><p></p><p>"To some extent it's not important, because if you're running Out of the Abyss in your home campaign, you don't give a s**t about whether or not...if Demogorgon dies in the adventure, he's DEAD in your campaign. That's all that matters. It doesn't matter what the official FR says -- it matters not in the least, because the only thing that's important to your players is the campaign that they played. *That* is canon, to them, and is canon to you, probably, if you as a DM value that campaign that you created. So what happens in the official narrative doesn't necessarily have merit, so it's one of those things like, we care about it, aaaand we don't care about it, because we know DMs are going to use it in their own way in their own campaigns for the most part. Now if you run it as 'the official FR adventure in the official FR world set in the official FR timeline' and you really want to marry all the canon together, then yeah we would like to help you out and say 'OK, Tiamat's still alive, good luck with that!'"</p><p></p><p>That seems as good a statement as any that, thematically, WotC is getting out of the business of publishing giant tomes of setting information independent of any other use (such as running a specific adventure).</p><p></p><p>However, in his next breath, he notes:</p><p></p><p>"We're dealing with it a story at a time. So if the events of Elemental Evil, for instance, impact a future story, we'll tell you. If in a future story you run into an evil dragon who fought in the Tyranny of Dragons story, that dragon's story has changed, he's learned something from that experience. He's different now. And so when you face him, and you will...<evil laughter>...in 'Dagger'. In 'Dagger' you will meet one of the dragons who was part of the coalition in Tyranny of Dragons."</p><p></p><p>So there's that nugget.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 7687255, member: 17607"] One part of the podcast that didn't make Morrus's transcription is significant, I think: "To some extent it's not important, because if you're running Out of the Abyss in your home campaign, you don't give a s**t about whether or not...if Demogorgon dies in the adventure, he's DEAD in your campaign. That's all that matters. It doesn't matter what the official FR says -- it matters not in the least, because the only thing that's important to your players is the campaign that they played. *That* is canon, to them, and is canon to you, probably, if you as a DM value that campaign that you created. So what happens in the official narrative doesn't necessarily have merit, so it's one of those things like, we care about it, aaaand we don't care about it, because we know DMs are going to use it in their own way in their own campaigns for the most part. Now if you run it as 'the official FR adventure in the official FR world set in the official FR timeline' and you really want to marry all the canon together, then yeah we would like to help you out and say 'OK, Tiamat's still alive, good luck with that!'" That seems as good a statement as any that, thematically, WotC is getting out of the business of publishing giant tomes of setting information independent of any other use (such as running a specific adventure). However, in his next breath, he notes: "We're dealing with it a story at a time. So if the events of Elemental Evil, for instance, impact a future story, we'll tell you. If in a future story you run into an evil dragon who fought in the Tyranny of Dragons story, that dragon's story has changed, he's learned something from that experience. He's different now. And so when you face him, and you will...<evil laughter>...in 'Dagger'. In 'Dagger' you will meet one of the dragons who was part of the coalition in Tyranny of Dragons." So there's that nugget. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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