Forsythe wrote:Eryx wrote:If you only accept works by Lovecraft, you ignore all the derivative and contributing work by his contemporary friends that Lovecraft knew about and at worst, didn't mind.
Yep, that's about the size of it for me, and he can't exactly say which he likes anymore, so we end up having to trust 3rd-party sources as to which he did and didn't allow into his universe - and then, we end up with things like Cthulhu's good-aligned brother.
Actually, he can (sort of). He wrote tons of letters, which can tell us a lot. Some of them were recently published in book form. I haven't picked it up, but I plan to. Oh, and I can't quite swallow Cthulhu having a good aligned brother, either.
Forsythe wrote:Eryx wrote:I wouldn't call Shadowgirls canon either. Yet. In a few years, who knows. It's definitely quality work.
Heh... it's certainly quality, and I do love a good story, but it'll never be canon for me.
It probably won't be canon Cthulhu for me, either. The Dave's have done that time honored activity, taking a good thing and making it even better - and their own. Shadowgirls will probably be their own canon. I hope that will happen, anyway.
