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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8615743" data-attributes="member: 19857">No.  Or at least it wasn't pre-2e Spelljammer.  Prior to 2e the idea was that there were multiple "Alternate Prime Material Planes". In the 1e Player's Handbook it says it "is the plane of Terra and all of its parallels" - explicitly setting up a parallel Earths motif.  In the 1e Manual of the Planes they talk about "Alternate Prime Material Planes" that each have their own Alternate Ethereal Plane as well.[ATTACH=full]156091[/ATTACH]It's only with 2e that they retconned all of this away and said that instead of Alternate Prime Planes there was one Prime plane and the different worlds were in Crystal Spheres instead of parallel dimensions.  3e basically undid that in the 3e Manual of the Planes with a throw away comment about how most games would have only one Material plane for the campaign setting, and then they spent the rest of 3e studiously never mentioning Crystal Spheres ever.  Even in the 3e version of Spelljammer in Dungeon magazine they set it in a single system and don't mention crystal spheres (and in fact the setting suggests that it isn't in a crystal sphere at all - that it's part of a galaxy like our own).(This is why when people get mad about Wizards retconning away lore I chuckle at it - TSR was never shy about retconning or ignoring lore whenever they felt like cranking out a new product.  They wanted D&D in space so they shoved all of the different alternate worlds into a single prime plane and made it work regardless of what the previous lore said.)</blockquote>

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