OTish - the current situation on the board

[Targan]

I've said this a number of times, but it bears repeating: THE CURRENT TROUBLES ON THIS FORUM DO NOT HAVE CANON VS NON-CANON AT THEIR CORE. Old wounds relating to that argument have been stirred up again, I believe deliberately, and this is not a spontaneous breakdown in the canon/non-canon cease-fire that held for so long.

Not one single member here is openly advocating that everyones' T2K campaigns must conform to canon. Quite the opposite, in fact. Even the most well-known pro-canon die hards here have said again and again and yet again that they DON'T CARE whether other players and GMs run their campaigns with canon or non-canon elements.

The re-opening of the canon/non-canon hostilities have allowed people, who had long put aside their disagreements, to vent their spleens all over again, and we're all only human. Having someone come along and say that your strongly-held opinion back in the bad old days of this forum's near-civil war was right all along feels good. But heed my words, friends - WE ARE BEING MANIPULATED. Much of the recent vitriol has been deliberately reignited solely to feed one man's perverse pleasure.

Everyone, take a step back if you will, look over the more contentious posts of the past few weeks, and analyse them with with a critical eye and with regard to what I've said in this post. There is a pattern at work here, and it's malicious and fully intentional. Don't buy into it. We're better than that.