5. There are some things where I fear the canon. If I’m playing a game set in an existing world from another source, I quite strongly don’t want to interact with existing major characters from that source, at least nearly always. Existing places and concepts are another matter.

Weirdly I don’t fear the canon in The One Ring or Star Trek, but it terrifies me in Star Wars or Glorantha, to give a few examples.

8. Is a home brew acceptable if it’s called a Hack? Do story gamers go further and turn their home brews into finished games? Are things trad gamers would call homebrews playtesting for indie types? That’s sort of where I am with homebrews; past a certain amount of effort I want to just write the game and maybe even get it published.

I sort of like that trend, but maybe I’m just seeing the positives.