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going off the beaten path and then new books

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finarvyn:
A couple of things come to mind here.

1. If Jim's material differs from your own, you could make a gradual change towards his. First, your leader of the Jade Court (or whatever) might step down, or a newcomer (Jim's) could overthrow power. You can make this gradual or quick, depending upon how it works in your plotlines.

2. You could just tell your players "I want to follow the canon Dresdenverse and this was just released, so we're making some changes" and I suspect the players will be fine with it.

In my experience, players are more interested in the game than in details of continuity.

Rel Fexive:
There's always plenty of scope for the classic "They told you they were the- *blinks* Man, you fell for that?" option :)

Shecky:
Yup, that's the issue with homebrews based on a living book/campaign world; the authors might do something wacky and different. :D

finarvyn:

--- Quote from: Shecky on February 17, 2010, 01:37:06 AM ---Yup, that's the issue with homebrews based on a living book/campaign world; the authors might do something wacky and different. :D

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The moral of the story is to only game in "dead" worlds.

For example, Tolkien hasn't written much new material since his death in the 1970's, so there's a good chance that he won't contradict anything now that he said back then. Well, of course there's the Children of Hurin book, which was published well after his death....  Okay, maybe Zelazny's Amber. That can't change, right? Oh, I forgot about the Betancourt prequel novels. Guess you can't pick that one, either.

Well, there must be some "dead" world that is still interesting....  8)

breaker:

--- Quote from: finarvyn on February 18, 2010, 03:05:49 AM ---The moral of the story is to only game in "dead" worlds.

For example, Tolkien hasn't written much new material since his death in the 1970's, so there's a good chance that he won't contradict anything now that he said back then. Well, of course there's the Children of Hurin book, which was published well after his death....  Okay, maybe Zelazny's Amber. That can't change, right? Oh, I forgot about the Betancourt prequel novels. Guess you can't pick that one, either.

Well, there must be some "dead" world that is still interesting....  8)

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Of course, people have been talking about it around here since I joined.
Buffy.

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