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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8006033" data-attributes="member: 8461">I feel like there's a level of nuance that's being lost here. While the planar arrangement in AD&amp;D was certainly different from the planar arrangement for BECMI (as described in the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17166/DD-Immortals-Set-BECMI-ed-Basic?affiliate_id=820" target="_blank">Immortals Set</a> (1986), as I recall), it was worth noting that the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17171/DD-Rules-Cyclopedia-Basic?affiliate_id=820" target="_blank">D&amp;D Rules Cyclopedia</a> (1991) had an appendix that talked about conversion between BECMI and AD&amp;D 2E. It even mentioned that it was &quot;convenient&quot; to assume that the two games took place in separate realities, and that moving characters between them was a &quot;reality shift.&quot;That term suggests (though it's not definitive) that the idea came, at least in part, from Bruce Heard's &quot;Up, Away, and Beyond&quot; article in Dragon magazine #160 (August, 1990), which talked about crossing over between D&amp;D settings in more detail.Please note the use of affiliate links in this post.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8006033, member: 8461"] I feel like there's a level of nuance that's being lost here. While the planar arrangement in AD&D was certainly different from the planar arrangement for BECMI (as described in the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17166/DD-Immortals-Set-BECMI-ed-Basic?affiliate_id=820']Immortals Set[/URL] (1986), as I recall), it was worth noting that the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17171/DD-Rules-Cyclopedia-Basic?affiliate_id=820']D&D Rules Cyclopedia[/URL] (1991) had an appendix that talked about conversion between BECMI and AD&D 2E. It even mentioned that it was "convenient" to assume that the two games took place in separate realities, and that moving characters between them was a "reality shift." That term suggests (though it's not definitive) that the idea came, at least in part, from Bruce Heard's "Up, Away, and Beyond" article in Dragon magazine #160 (August, 1990), which talked about crossing over between D&D settings in more detail. [I]Please note the use of affiliate links in this post.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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