User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-1272640-20170125195751

Amorkuz wrote: OncomingStorm12th wrote: My point is: Paul Magrs, and any other writer can pick characters of their DW related works, and use them outside of DWU. It may be confusing at first, but, if their intention is simply to use a character again, I'm pretty sure they won't be thinking "oh, let's make a new DWU novel/audio". They may just be thinking "oh, I liked that character. Let's use him/her/it again." Exactly, and the more steps away from their original DW licensed story they make, the less likely they are to think about creating a DWU story. Keeping track of continuities is hard work actually. Didn't we all marvel how Rowlings managed to tie things together? There is zero incentive for Magrs to keep track of DWU continuities while writing Vince Cosmos stories. It's work enough to deal with Obverse ones. He may elect to do so, in which case it would show. Because no one would want to do extra work without anyone ever knowing. And that evidence that DWU was respected should be required in Rule 4, IMHO. It's not the author's job to do that.