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Is Paladine Bahamut? Is Takhisis Tiamat? Fizban's Treasury Might Reveal The Answer!
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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 8349721" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><p>That's sort of correct, but it requires another level of planar dimensionality.</p><p></p><p>In 3e, different multiverses existed, and it was theoretically possible to get to them through the Plane of Shadow. But each of those was an entirely distinct multiverse, with its own planes and personalities that were completely unconnected to those planes and personalities in others, even if they shared the same name. Forgotten Realms was at the center of it's own World Tree cosmology multiverse, Greyhawk at the center of its gutted (er, excuse me, "revised") Great Wheel cosmology, Eberron with it's thing, etc.</p><p></p><p>In 2e (and 5e) Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and every other setting exists within the same Great Wheel multiverse in some way, even if it may be cut off from certain parts of it. (It's possible that the MtG worlds exist in an entirely different multiverse, and I'm not sure the designers have weighed in on that part yet.) There is only one Abyss, one Nine Hells of Baator, etc, and your world either does or doesn't interact with it, but it's still up there interacting with all the other planes that your world might be interacting with.</p><p></p><p>Now, personally, I greatly prefer the unified 2e/5e presentation, but I absolutely understand where [USER=6704184]@doctorbadwolf[/USER] is coming from. I'm of the other cosmological preference, but of the same mindframe in believing that such presentations are meaningfully different and do effect my game even if indirectly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 8349721, member: 6677017"] That's sort of correct, but it requires another level of planar dimensionality. In 3e, different multiverses existed, and it was theoretically possible to get to them through the Plane of Shadow. But each of those was an entirely distinct multiverse, with its own planes and personalities that were completely unconnected to those planes and personalities in others, even if they shared the same name. Forgotten Realms was at the center of it's own World Tree cosmology multiverse, Greyhawk at the center of its gutted (er, excuse me, "revised") Great Wheel cosmology, Eberron with it's thing, etc. In 2e (and 5e) Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and every other setting exists within the same Great Wheel multiverse in some way, even if it may be cut off from certain parts of it. (It's possible that the MtG worlds exist in an entirely different multiverse, and I'm not sure the designers have weighed in on that part yet.) There is only one Abyss, one Nine Hells of Baator, etc, and your world either does or doesn't interact with it, but it's still up there interacting with all the other planes that your world might be interacting with. Now, personally, I greatly prefer the unified 2e/5e presentation, but I absolutely understand where [USER=6704184]@doctorbadwolf[/USER] is coming from. I'm of the other cosmological preference, but of the same mindframe in believing that such presentations are meaningfully different and do effect my game even if indirectly. [/QUOTE]
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