Sorry I'm late to this thread, but between this thread and others on elves and FR gods and itemization and connections to the original BG games I thought it might be useful to note for everyone here that very recently, in an interview, a WotC dude (Crawford?) stated very clearly that it is now WotC policy that EVERYTHING pre-5e is not considered canon anymore. So not only are the old video games and novels and comic books etc no longer considered canon but also even WotC-published sourcebooks from previous editions are no longer considered canon. ONLY 5e sourcebooks and nothing else. It is WotC's latest attempt to make anything pre-5e to be no longer relevant to D&D players, and in this way make people buy the new material if they want canon. And whenever 6e is released, all 5e material will become non-canon and irrelevant too.
With each passing day I come to hate WotC more and more, and can't help asking myself if I want to keep giving WotC even one penny of my money ever again.
I'm not gonna argue against anyone not wanting to give WotC money, but I do want to ask why this is that big of a deal. Is it just a matter of principle? Like, you're against the way WotC is disrespecting past editions? I can understand that. But the idea of canon for TTRPGs has always been pretty weird to me. I understand wanting to play in a world that's already been created for you, but what does it really matter if Wizards no longer considers past stuff canon? They're not gonna come and take the books you already have away, you're free to fold past stuff into canon at your tables and having the books that they declare canon only matters insofar as you want to use what's in the books. If you prefer the lore from a past edition, you can keep it when you play.
