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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlin the Tuna" data-source="post: 3794715" data-attributes="member: 55638">It's a very valid question to ask, as it's largely the source of arguments about retcons and whatnot.The new core is an entirely new setting - we've been explicitly told that it's not Greyhawk.  But people tend to overlook this when familiar names show up, especially in the line of "So the succubi just magically became devils?"  No.  These succubi always were devils.  But it can still be a bit of a tough sell when a bunch of gods suddenly have dopplegangers running around in alternate universes.Still, it doesn't really bother me that much.  I don't expect most deities to change that much in terms of powers and personality, and I think it'd be bothersome to have St. Cuthbert in one world and St. Kuthbert in the next.  I can accept Superman being Superman in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Son" target="_blank">Red Son</a> while at the same time accepting him as Superman in other contexts, and by the same token can accept Asmodeus as the same character colored into a new setting.</blockquote>