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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7925561" data-attributes="member: 6801228">My computer crashed mid-post, so I need to rewrite it. Your point seems to be that any setting written is homebrew, but that is not what the terms means. If you go to a table and they say &quot;we do not accept homebrew classes, but anything official is fine&quot; yo would be rightfully upset if they then kicked you from the group for bringing an Artificer, under the claim that all of Eberron is homebrew. And I would say this is not a pointless semantic argument, you cannot just choose to redefine the term the community uses. Peter Jackson did not make a &quot;fan video&quot; when he directed the multi-million dollar Lord of the Rings trilogy for a major motion pciture company.Dante's Inferno and Paradisio are not simply &quot;fan fics&quot; of the content of the Bible. The gaming company releasing an official product is not homebrew. It cannot be by definition.Right, it isn't set int stone, it just has to be followed or you are breaking or changing the rules. And despite specific trumping general, the specific background does not trump the general barbarian. The specific race does not trump the general barbarian, and the specific barbarian does not trump the general barbarian. For that last one, I am making the assumption that you would find a &quot;warrior of [insert homebrew diety from Greyhawk here]&quot; raised in the church, but using the Zealot barbarian stats for combat would be breaking with the general lore about the barbarian unless they were uncivilized and tribal, because being a holy warrior blessed by the powers of a diety isn't enough for the Barbarian who is specifically tied to that trope, they must also follow the general lore of the barbarian as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7925561, member: 6801228"] My computer crashed mid-post, so I need to rewrite it. Your point seems to be that any setting written is homebrew, but that is not what the terms means. If you go to a table and they say "we do not accept homebrew classes, but anything official is fine" yo would be rightfully upset if they then kicked you from the group for bringing an Artificer, under the claim that [B]all of Eberron[/B] is homebrew. And I would say this is not a pointless semantic argument, you cannot just choose to redefine the term the community uses. Peter Jackson did not make a "fan video" when he directed the multi-million dollar Lord of the Rings trilogy for a major motion pciture company. Dante's Inferno and Paradisio are not simply "fan fics" of the content of the Bible. The gaming company releasing an official product is not homebrew. It cannot be by definition. Right, it isn't set int stone, it just has to be followed or you are breaking or changing the rules. And despite specific trumping general, the specific background does not trump the general barbarian. The specific race does not trump the general barbarian, and the specific barbarian does not trump the general barbarian. For that last one, I am making the assumption that you would find a "warrior of [insert homebrew diety from Greyhawk here]" raised in the church, but using the Zealot barbarian stats for combat would be breaking with the general lore about the barbarian unless they were uncivilized and tribal, because being a holy warrior blessed by the powers of a diety isn't enough for the Barbarian who is specifically tied to that trope, they must also follow the general lore of the barbarian as well. [/QUOTE]

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