Cobwebbed Dragon wrote:
The background processes that churn in some of the darker recesses of my brain have finally figured out why I didn't follow the reasoning - with the exception of In From The Cold, I don't really consider the new material published by Mongoose or SKG to be canon. I wondered if anyone else thought the same thing?
An interesting question.
I'm not sure I'd use the term canon (although I may have done so in the past in a fairly simplistic way). I would say 'official', perhaps rather than canon.
But I do regard officially released material as separate from fan material, speaking as somebody who is producing both, and I am likely to treat officially released material as important in writing anything 'fan based'. Part of the nature of a roleplaying game is 'Rule 0' - GMs are always free to change anything they like, but I still think there is value in an accepted core.
I also have a little bit of 'behind the scenes' insight into the processes involved in writing some of the new material and the amount of fairly obsessive effort that has gone into making sure we remain true to the 'feel' of Dragon Warriors and the 'feel' of Legend. Whether we got it right or not will be up to people to judge for themselves once they get to see some more of the new material
But it's my personal choice to want to match the official material as closely as I can. Not a rule for anybody else.