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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 7473000" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Well, despite being conceived of as lying "beyond" the Multiverse, each of these Dimensions is unique, and would map to different aspects of the 5E cosmology:The Old Alphatia Dimension is just the homeworld of the Alphatians. It's nothing special - just some planets and extra-starry, glittery outer space. It really could just be a crystal sphere in 5E cosmology. Whether it's called a "dimension" or not is immaterial.I'd say that the "Dimension of Myth" is an in-game name for the Universe of Earth, from the perspective of the D&D Multiverse. I'd say that Laterre (Magical Medieval Earth) is just one continuity/timeline within that dimension. All the other TSR/WotC Earth-based campaign settings would also exist as alternate timelines within this Dimension: Urban Arcana, Historical Reference Earth, Gothic Earth, Boot Hill, Dark.Matter, Gangbusters, Shadow Chasers, Gamma World, Midgard (Norse Earth), etc.The Nightmare Dimension could be an aspect of the 5E Far Realm. There was a whole DRAGON mag article which explained how the Far Realm and Nightmare Dimension (and Demiplane of Nightmares) were related in 3E. Cool thing about the Nightmare Dimension is that the "humans" of that realm are Chaotic Good devils. They look like Nightcrawler from X-Men. They think we humans look frightening.The Vortex Dimension is special. It's where the Old Ones come from. They are the Overgods of the Classic D&D Multiverse, equivalent to Lord Ao of FR and the High God of Krynn. Little known fact: if your character advances all the way to 36th Level, and then becomes an Immortal, and then advances to 36th-Level Immortal...and then renounces Immortality and begins again as a 1st-level mortal character, and advances all the way back again, they become an Old One.It'd be amazing if WotC mapped all this out for 5E Mystara. But Mearls hasn't asked me serve as consultant. (yet!)</blockquote>

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