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hermeneutics: It would include very old characters if they are incapable of caring for themselves. Disabilities can be reasonably accommodated through magical means or assistive devices, which you are welcome to dream up for yourselves.
hermeneutics: Changing things is fine as long as you intend to do so to take your character outside of the canon setting. If you change canon details but want to still be called a Canon OC from D&D or whatever setting, then that is not allowed because it would be a Canon AU.
But changing some names and details to make their setting an original one that does not fall into the Canon category is 100% allowed. "Original setting inspired by X" Is just as valid an as any other.
Yes, also for further clarification, this is not saying you can't add cities and areas that are allowable in your canon (as we do know D&D is a vast canon setting). We just mean you would need to file some numbers off or tone down major events that would have vast implications and knowledge other characters would be aware of.
That would keep it from being a Canon AU because there it's reasonable other characters would not know about it and no one is being forced to adhere to anyone else's D&D campaigns.
Also do consider canon points as a viable way of adjusting your character to prevent things from going into an AU. If a major event in your character's campaign would have major influence on the world and other characters, you are more than welcome to take them from before that happened!
suddenly all i can think of is the bit from taz balance where they almost let the train crash into neverwinter and joke about accidentally destroying someone else's campaign with it
I think part of the confusion here is that I at least am not certain it's possible to talk about D&D as a "canon" when it's a system, not a setting. There are multiple published canonical D&D settings; there are also a lot of games that take place in wholly original settings. They just use a common rule set.
yeah, it's hard to argue that a TTRPG can quantify as a canon in and of itself in the same way that a video game/tv series can. i guess it mostly depends on the narrative you're using
It would be fair to talk about canon/au of Forgotten Realms or Eberron or Krynn, but if for instance I brought one of my characters from my bf's jazz age homebrew setting, they wouldn't be an "alternate" universe from the published settings. It's just world with some of the same underlying mechanics.
big woop
: If you are using a setting made in an official, publicly released capacity by someone else, then it is a canon. If those canons happen to fall into the official D&D branding then they are a D&D canon setting. D&D has multiple official canon settings and those are all allowed.
sorry i'm like, 100% canonblind on D&D so i have to defer to the other mods and a lot of the muddled messages are probably my fault. the other mod is cleaning up after me very well lol
as always the most important thing is not to step on the toes of other people who are playing in the same setting yknow? so that's the message we're trying to get across
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