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I think that, back in the day, this "multiverse" approach was very important because players moved often from one game to the other and...

@Parmandur quoted a snippet from one in ... oh boy ... a multi-part (like five?) essay I wrote on this. But the original Gygaxian...

Really it's the only way to explain how everyone gets a different campaign in the same world.

I think this will be good for Paizo and good for 5e. Abomination Vaults wouldn’t have been my choice because I’m not a fan of dungeon...

Quick purchase for me, even if I have the paizo pdf conversion and the original 3 APs, fun stuff!

As an aside: I've said this many times before, but I think one of the worst decisions WotC made in the early 5e transition era was to...

Well, bit but it does stayed that there are endless parallel worlds: "The Known Planes of Existence, as depicted in APPENDIX IV of the...

The kitchen table visits of the Wizards Theee are canonical, insofar as "canon" means anything.

The below snippet is from a longer treatise on the history here:

It's in the AD&D 1E PHB and DMG very explicitly, and in great detail in the Manual of the Planes: the way the MCU made a fo at it goes...

Well, they have done both to an extent, and the MCU style multiverse has been a firmly established thing in D&D since the 70s.

Its a little more nuanced than that. WotC has used the multiverse to explain that there are multiple versions of Toril or Eberron, but...

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I do feel it's worth pointing out that WotC's idea of a multiverse is different to...

The idea that you have to be level 19+ to become a Chosen is weird to me, since there are plenty of examples in previous 5e books no...

The Epic Feats are attached to domains, no specific gods. So an Epic Boon might be for the Life domain, which can be conferred by a Life...