Official Words

I dunno what to call this post, but I need a place to gather relevant and/or important statements made by TSR/WotC/whoever staff. This stuff might provide answers to questions at some point.

  • 30 March 2000: Jim Butler states that "Everything that bears the Forgotten Realms logo is considered canon" and indicates that this is intended to be the case going forward. — Source

My response to this is that I don’t think it’s fair to say that a novel is canon while an adventure published in Dungeon Magazine is not… particularly in a case where (hypothetically) the adventure was written by Ed and the novel was not, and especially with the feeble criterion that the novel has the Realms logo on it and Dungeon Magazine doesn’t. Instead let’s say that everything published (or permitted to be published) by TSR/WotC which is stated to be set in the Realms is canon for the Realms. There will be a lot of cases where this is difficult, but I’m guessing most of those can be blamed on WotC rather than freelance authors so let’s not automatically marginalize the player-generated material.

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