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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
I'd suggest you look up a thread entitled "what is canon" from a couple of years ago to get a feel for what most people in this forum think about that. I think you'll find yourself in the minority, especially as most of the supposed contradictions you're referring to can be explained. That's about all I have to say on that particular topic.
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Yeah; I think the thing to remember is: if its printed by GDW it's canon, otherwise not. I don't think that means people who don't want to follow canon have to - but I also don't think it's constructive to keep saying "This shouldn't be canon, it sucks and here's why."
I mean...take Greyhawk for AD&D...which is actually a
lot like Twilight:2000 but that's not for now...anyway, there are diehard fans of Greyhawk who fall into the "It is or was printed, therefore it's canon." but see...for me, any Greyhawk stuff NOT written by Gary Gygax or Rob Kuntz tends to be shit IMO. Greyhawk Wars? The terrible "Castle Greyhawk" module written after Gary left TSR? Hell, most everything after Gary left TSR? Yeah, no, it's crap all of it.
So what do I do? I ignore it. I ignore From the Ashes, Iuz Returns, Die Vecna Die, all the Jean Rabe GH novels, all the post-Gary GH modules, on and on. For me, it
isn't ever going to happen in my Greyhawk campaign(s). But...there are people who play Greyhawk first, D&D second. So when Wizards of the Coast threw 4th edition into the mix and said "Dragonborn and tieflings and eladrin* are now part of your campaign, deal with it." bam, into their greyhawk then went.
(*=anthropomorphic dragons, demon-people, elves by another name)
Phew. Got a little far afield there, sorry. But I think I got my point over, yeah?
