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Originally Posted by Targan
Regular visitors may have noticed that I have made (I think) only one post since Kato's announcement. That is because I have been thinking about the decision and the ramifications it will have on this forum. If for the purposes of discussions on this forum we are required to regard the DC Working Group's work as canon I am afraid I will no longer feel comfortable posting here and my input will be minimal.
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If things work out that way, I feel comfortable speaking for the overwhelming majority of us in saying that we will miss you, Targan. You've always been focused on improving the product.
I think there's room, even in "canon", for flexibility. I'm not feeling myself obliged to support 100% of the DC Group's material any more than I feel myself or they feel themselves obliged to support 100% of the GDW material in print. As many of our Australian brethren have pointed out, in sentiment if not in words, ultra-orthodoxy becomes stifling. I don't think anyone here is interested in establishing a Roman Catholic Church of or a Soviet Communist Party of Twilight: 2000.
By the same token, I believe Kato wants to rise above the sort of knee-jerk reaction against work like the DC Group's work ("That's not what the Bible says! Out with you, Martin Luther!") that was demonstrated
in extremis a little while ago. What began as a discussion about what was possble, practicable, likely devolved into an argument over possession: in other words, who has the right to make claims about the shape of the Twilight: 2000 universe. Kato, who is understandably more sympathetic to contributors who invest massive quantities of time and effort into comprehensive products than those whose mannerisms, albeit probably not their intent, approach those of hecklers, has made a decision which I believe is meant to put off the near-heckling. Disagree with the DC Group as you see fit, gentlemen. I doubt the DC Group or our administrator are going to take particular umbrage so long as we can either come to some agreement or agree to disagree.
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