Now as fans, it's in our nature not only to collect every possible reference to Mystara, but also to painstakingly check every single little reference in every one of those sources while working on our projects. Moreover, we can do that with a simple Google search, or by text searching the PDFs.
And this is where the disconnect occurs.
Lately I feel increasingly that we're holding the authors (of 22-37 years ago no less) to an impossible standard — one that was made even more impossible due to Mystara's reliance on freelancers, who by definition did not have access to the whole product line.
Perhaps we should take a step back, and look at things a little more objectively. I'm not saying we shouldn't continue to iron out problems; let's face it, most of my projects are still solidly aimed at doing just that.

In short, what I'm saying is that I believe that all of Mystara's authors were striving to do the best they could with the circumstances they were given. We should give them and their books the benefit of the doubt.
(Cross-posted to Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mystara ... 293564293/ )