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The idea that everyone’s home game is part of the same multiverse, and characters can travel between them was established in the DMG...

Of course there are 600 different parallel Elminsters. In fact there are millions of different parallel Elminsters, because every...

The First World idea draws very heavily on the Amber stories, in which there is one Pattern, and all the other worlds are just shadows...

Fantasy stories started out as folk tales. And many folk tales are extended metaphors: "don't play near the water children or Green...

The multiverse was there, in the rules, irrespective of if it was "needed" or not. Read the 1st edition DMG and you will find the words...

Parallel prime material planes where in the 1st edition AD&D DMG. That’s how come Ed Greenwood was able to converse with Elminster and...

No, it would hatch into a turtle. Big enough for four elephants to stand on it to hold up the flat remains of the world upon their backs.

I distinctly remember Fizban's Treasury talking about multiple material planes

The context makes it quite clear that the Forgotten Realms has echos and alternate universes, as is standard for D&D.

Oh yeah, I forgot about PAX. That'd make sense

Yes but it’s not unusual for the next set of books for the following year announced around this time

No it said mirror universe, and we have tons of other examples of this stuff. You are basically just going “nah I don’t believe you...

I consider recent to be last year maybe two. I for sure don’t count stuff from a decade ago.

Yet the same writer is the one who has advanced the infinite muktivers consistently since then, with the idea of the First World and...

I see nonreason to take it non-literally, given that 5E has always emphasized D&D as a Multiverse. You can say it is juat a metaphor...