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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8348803" data-attributes="member: 79428">Part of the problem is that D&D uses the term "multiverse" in a way unlike other media properties.For example, Spider-Man in recent years has been shown to have many different iterations and counterparts in many different worlds through "Spiderverse" comics and movies. The idea of the multiverse is that there are many different Spider-Men or Spider-Man counterparts.D&D, in contrast, goes the opposite direction (5E in particular). Here, the term "multiverse" refers to a standardized set of planes shared by all worlds. Whereas in Marvel Comics the term "multiverse" means there are possibly infinite versions of Spider-Man or similar characters, in D&D "multiverse" means that there is only one Tiamat (or Bahamut, or Corellon, etc), and that seeming counterparts such as Takhisis are actually just the Tiamat in Avernus. 5E has gone even further than that by claiming, for example, all elves were created by Corellon, despite what the previous lore of various settings has suggested.To put it simply, the D&D "multiverse" isn't actually a multiverse so much as it is a finite collection of planes. It was closer to what is more popularly understood as a multiverse during the 3E and 4E era.</blockquote>