[Legbreaker]

Olefin, you're missing the point.

In your own private game group, what happens is canon for them. Just because it happens to them, doesn't mean it's relevant to everyone else.

The books on the other hand are canon for everyone unless altered by events within their own game.

It's all well and good to say "this is what we think", "how we did it", but it's completely unacceptable to push those opinions upon everyone else. The books, while we all disagree with some, or many points within them, provide us all, as a worldwide community with a common foundation. As I stated before, and others have reiterated, if a person wants to create something with the intention of others using it, then they MUST stick with the information in the books, or, as Rainbow Six has done, give some pretty damn compelling reasons why they've made alterations, and detail exactly what they are.

To simply declare published materials as rubbish and demand all others agree with you is a recipe for conflict.

Many, many times I've been described as a "canon nazi", but that's mainly because I strongly believe that anything I write should be useful to everyone. In my own games I make changes and (I hope) improvements, but I'm not about to ram them down other peoples throats. I'm all for discussing rules changes, or interpretations of the evidence given in the books. My very first post on this forum was an assessment of the spring offensive written after weeks of research. Even though I've probably spent more time on that one period than any 10 other people, members of this forum have provided different viewpoints which has caused me to alter some of my own.

To me, this forum is a collaboration of many like minded people all working for a similar goal - the extension and improvement of T2K resources, without upsetting the delicate world balance or radically altering things so it's no longer anything like T2K.

Finally, nobody is saying everyone MUST stick to canon and damn all the rest. Diversions and alterations are great, but as a community, we must work from a common foundation. If anyone wants to create something different, then good on them, but they need to identify it as an alternative.