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Whose Greyhawk Novels Do You Consider Canon?
| Gary Gygax TSR Gord only |    21.50% (43) | | Gary Gygax all | 37.00% (74) | | Rose Estes | 4.50% (9) | | Keith Strohm | 1.00% (2) | | Ru Emerson | 0.00% (0) | | Thomas Reid | 0.50% (1) | | Paul Kidd | 7.00% (14) | | Andre Norton | 1.00% (2) | | All TSR/WotC Published | 7.00% (14) | | All TSR/WotC/Dragon Published | 20.00% (40) | | Other Fan Fiction, please tell us! | 0.50% (1) | | None | 24.50% (49) |
Total Votes: 200
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Re: Whose Greyhawk Novels Do You Consider Canon? (Score: 1)
by chatdemon (richadmin@canonfire.com) on Wed, November 05, 2003
(User Info | Send a Message | Journal) | | Thanks to GreyTalker Tzelios for the idea for this poll! I expanded on his recent "is Gygax fiction canon" discussion to see which of all the Greyhawk authors folks use to flesh out the setting.
And yeah, I voted for poor old Rose, just so she wont get no votes at all. :-P |
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Re: Whose Greyhawk Novels Do You Consider Canon? (Score: 1)
by Aluvial on Wed, November 05, 2003
(User Info | Send a Message) | It's too bad you can't vote for more than one source...
I really liked a lot of the books that I've read in the World of Greyhawk, Gygax first, of-course, but also the stuff by Kidd (Estes is no-good IMO).
As a part-time devotee of Greyhawk canon, I would think that Greyhawk, of all the worlds created, does have one of the most stringent guidelines by their fans on canon sources.
I would love to use the Kidd books as canon so I voted for him. Gygax goes without saying (of course there is that whole world is destroyed element). I really believe that regardless of the quality and content you could consider almost anything with the Greyhawk logo on it, canon material (except for that crappy Castle Greyhawk with all of the bad role-playing jokes).
Anyway you should reset the poll so that you can vote for more than one author...
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Re: Whose Greyhawk Novels Do You Consider Canon? (Score: 1)
by PeterOui on Wed, November 05, 2003
(User Info | Send a Message) | I consider all of the Oerth Journal entries canon IMC; some of it actually has become canon.
I really like Eric Boyd's stuff, although he is mainly an author for FR. Among others his version of the Isles of Woe and Dragons of the Flanaess columns are very good. |
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Re: Whose Greyhawk Novels Do You Consider Canon? (Score: 1)
by Phoebus on Thu, November 06, 2003
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I voted none. Although there are elements in various novels that have made it into some sourcebooks as canon, I don't think any of the novels have been taken as a whole and put into the history of Greyhawk. Which is as it should be in my opinion. |
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Re: Whose Greyhawk Novels Do You Consider Canon? (Score: 1)
by caa on Fri, November 07, 2003
(User Info | Send a Message) | | After 20 years, the only thing that I consider "canon" is what's already extant in my campaigns. Everything else gets added in piecemeal. |
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Re: Whose Greyhawk Novels Do You Consider Canon? (Score: 1)
by TwiceBorn on Wed, November 26, 2003
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I wouldn't consider the novels that are based on the classic modules as canon, if only because my players are (or eventually will be) going through those adventures... the deeds of their characters eventually will become canon IMC... there wouldn't be any sense in running those adventures if that weren't going to be the case! The "classic" novels are good for entertainment value, and perhaps for the odd idea or nugget of background info (but I haven't read all of them yet, so I don't even know how useful they are in that regard), but that's about it. As for the other novels (Gygax, Estes, etc...'), although I recently dug most of them up in second hand bookshops, I haven't read them yet. I presume that they may be useful resources for story ideas and background info as well, but I doubt that I'll consider them as canon (I would argue that having someone else's novels count as canon kind of defeats the purpose of an RPG... unless the books take place well before the campaign does, in which case the books might count as canon from a historical perspective). |
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