Talk:Book of Vile Darkness (sourcebook)

Canon
is this considered canon? ie should a page be made for the jerren race? Doonval ti bekk&#39;har (talk) 01:26, September 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * The BOVD is canon to core D&D, but not necessarily canon to FR, as it's a core sourcebook. So it's not really necessary for the wiki to carry lore from the BOVD, unless FR lore references the BOVD.
 * The jerrens don't really exist in FR. The Player's Guide to Faerûn gives some optional ideas for including vasharens and jerrens in Faerûn, but it's only some vague ideas. So we don't really need an article on them on the wiki. — BadCatMan (talk) 02:25, September 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * (BCM beat me to it, but here's what I was going to say.) This book, and its companion volume the Book of Exalted Deeds, are not canon to the Forgotten Realms, but parts of them are mentioned in other FR publications. The Player's Guide to Faerûn offers some guidelines about integrating the material from those two books into a Forgotten Realms campaign. And to answer your other question, the sidebar on page 176 of the PGtF states that "the Vasharans are not part of the history of Faerûn" and goes on to say that a DM can optionally add the Vasharans and Jerrens in a remote location, integrate them into existing cultures, or ignore them completely. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 02:36, September 13, 2013 (UTC)