(02-04-2014, 07:52 PM)Tiergan Wrote: If you consider yourself a stickler for the lore, then you sort of have to take the Lightning/Shantotto events as they are and consider dimension-hopping canon. Otherwise you're just picking and choosing what you like and don't like.
Yeah. That's a pretty dangerous trap to fall into, too. Sure, there's going to be stuff that people dislike and find to be silly but in the vast majority of cases - unless it's explicitly stated to be simple game mechanics - then most of what we see in terms of flavour text and various events in-game is to be taken as canon.
Of course, there's ways around that. You can simply choose to not touch upon the aspects of the lore that you don't favour by not incorporating them into your role-play unless it arises as a reasonable plot device. You can generally get away with a friendly OOC message informing role-play partners that it isn't a theme that you're looking to explore.
