GMs -- Don't we all want to roll our own?

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Originally Posted by balzacq

What do you mean by "world bombed"?

The FR has been reset at each major revision of the (A)D&D rules, complete with in-game reasoning, gods and major characters dying/changing/appearing, map alterations (sometimes major), book tie-ins, plenty of new rulebooks to buy, etc.

Originally Posted by balzacq

Perhaps I should have said "that's why I won't run canonical Star Wars, Star Trek, or Middle Earth."

I've played in plenty of Star Wars and Star Trek games and have yet to have anyone whine about canon issues. Maybe it's just the groups I've been in, but everyone seemed to accept that in our adventures, things may be different from the sources.

That doesn't force things to change, though. One of my favorite Star Wars adventures was when our group of "honest businessmen" had the misfortune of taking a delivery to Alderaan. Captured by the staff of everyone's favorite small moon, we escaped when some farm kid came by to rescue his girlfriend, or something like that. We grabbed a few stormtrooper outfits and worked our way back to the hanger. There was a tense moment when we ran into the folks who unwittingly let us escape; we decided to shoot at them but intentionally miss so as to not blow our cover. Once at the hanger we sneaked back into our ship and got the heck out of there in the confusion.