Fun fact: Tomb of Annhilation is actually a prequel to Tomb of horrors; in Annihilation Accerack is still a lich wheras in horrors he's a demi-lich.
Funner fact: Return to Tomb of Horrors established that the Tomb of Horrors demilich was actually another decoy.
Another fun fact: Vecna: Eve of Ruin contains another Acererak tomb ("Tomb of Wayward Souls"), with another version of Acererak.
Return to the Tomb of horrors isn't canon to 5e
How is it determined whether a 2E adventure is canon to 5E? Or is it just that 5E's information conflicts with changes in 2E?
Whether it is in 1st-party official 5e books' printed lore.
SO nothing TSR, nothing 3.5e, nothing 4e, nothing by novelists that isn't strictly reflected in the 1st-party official books verbatim.
People love to claim Ed Greenwood, R. A. Salvatore, & Hickman & Weiss have a say in 5e lore discussions. That's not strictly true, but people love to consider that homebrew as RAW in their games.
WotC is free to adapt those & add them to the canon lore, but, even if I love the 2nd-party lore of Jarlaxle, he's only been referred to as Jarlaxle Banrae in 5e lore, so that is his name in 5e unless the new FR book explains the spoiler regarding that given last name.
Also, a lot of lore discussions tend to justify x being canon to y or how things work, but the problem with those is the "Other Stuff Exists" Fallacy.
Do I think 5e needs more 1st-party lore? It wouldn't stop the people complaining about page bloat in the slightest, & people whose primary but valid interest is the combat pillar would ignore it, and their issues with retracting lore would still exist(God knows they don't have enough sensitivity consultants of enough backgrounds)...but their mealy-mouthed way of not declaring "this is how it is in X" needs to stop:It reeks of Hasbro investors looking over their shoulder. More lore is good, as long as it has been vetted by people who know what they're talking about, ESPECIALLY regarding metaphors.
Return to the Tomb of Horrors has not been fully reflected in 5e lore, & thus isn't canon.
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Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
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How is it determined whether a 2E adventure is canon to 5E? Or is it just that 5E's information conflicts with changes in 2E?
Whether it is in 1st-party official 5e books' printed lore.
SO nothing TSR, nothing 3.5e, nothing 4e, nothing by novelists that isn't strictly reflected in the 1st-party official books verbatim.
People love to claim Ed Greenwood, R. A. Salvatore, & Hickman & Weiss have a say in 5e lore discussions. That's not strictly true, but people love to consider that homebrew as RAW in their games.
WotC is free to adapt those & add them to the canon lore, but, even if I love the 2nd-party lore of Jarlaxle, he's only been referred to as Jarlaxle Banrae in 5e lore, so that is his name in 5e unless the new FR book explains the spoiler regarding that given last name.
Also, a lot of lore discussions tend to justify x being canon to y or how things work, but the problem with those is the "Other Stuff Exists" Fallacy.
Do I think 5e needs more 1st-party lore? It wouldn't stop the people complaining about page bloat in the slightest, & people whose primary but valid interest is the combat pillar would ignore it, and their issues with retracting lore would still exist(God knows they don't have enough sensitivity consultants of enough backgrounds)...but their mealy-mouthed way of not declaring "this is how it is in X" needs to stop:It reeks of Hasbro investors looking over their shoulder. More lore is good, as long as it has been vetted by people who know what they're talking about, ESPECIALLY regarding metaphors.
Return to the Tomb of Horrors has not been fully reflected in 5e lore, & thus isn't canon.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.