[Olefin]

The canon as was presented by GDW is the basis of the game people - and if we cannot discuss it, if we cannot ask questions about it, if we cannot challenge it in order to improve the game and to clean up the multitude of errors, misstatements and errors in it then really what is the board for? If there was bad blood in the past then that is the past. But you dont squelch discussion on a board based on the events of the past.

And as Jason said - no one is forcing anyone to change nor is anyone trying to do so. And the modules and sourcebooks being treated like Holy Writ and any challenge of them blasphemy is a great way to take the game and freeze it in amber forever, a nice bauble to look at but not a living breathing game that can be expanded on, corrected and changed as it should be.

And change doesnt come with some pain and some treasured things having to be discarded or modified. I loved my original Commodore 64 but that doesnt mean I still use it today and treat anyone who tells me computers have changed a lot and are a lot better as some kind of heretic for telling me that and accusing them of being troublemakers.

The modules and guidebooks were written a long time ago by people who did the best they could with the time and resources they had. Discussing them and pointing out those errors and proposing changes is hardly the heresy that I have been accused of.

When I propose rewrites, its to make a game I played originally at 20 years old a much better game that will stay alive and hopefully grow and still be here for a long time, instead of a dusty memory stored on a shelf, not to be touched or modified in any way until it grows moldy with decay.

Or is the board to be like the Catholics of old who burned at the stake the Protestants who tried to change Christianity and restore it back to vitality and growth simply because any challenge to the existing order had to be stopped at all costs because it was all they had known?

Its one reason I am doing the Kenyan sourcebook - as a new place for adventures, modules and to have a place for the game to possibly grow again and not be stuck in amber for good. And if what I propose changes Going Home or the RDF in some small way, then it does. And no one has to do anything - if you dont like it, then you dont like it and dont use it.

If you do, then you do.

and didnt mean to get all religious here but Jason's post about High Priests just got me in the mood