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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 7471878" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Eight RealitiesGood post Zardnaar.We're really dealing with nine different Realities.1) Original D&D "Multiverse":-Greyhawk-Blackmoor-Barsoom(hints at Middle-earth "Ents" and "Hobbits")2) Classic (BECMI) D&D Five Spheres Multiverse, canonically exists in an entirely different Reality than the AD&D Multiverse. In the back of the Gazetteers and in the Book of Marvellous Magic, there were official gates between this Multiverse and the AD&D Multiverse (both to Oerth and Toril), and also to Gamma World, Gangbusters, Star Frontiers, Dawn Patrol, and Boot Hill:-Mystara (originally named "Urt") - the Multiverse Dimension-Old Alphatia Dimension-Nightmare Dimension-Dimension of Myth (Laterre - Magical Medieval Earth)-Oerth (only seen in modules B1 and B2, which officially exist in both Oerth and Mystara, and in Frank Mentzer's comment that Oerth is located in the Tau Ceti solar system vis-a-vis Mystara, and in Bruce Heard's comment that there could be a BECMI version of Oerth)(This multiverse was greatly revised when the Gold Box Immortal Set was replaced by the Wrath of the Immortals boxed set.)3) AD&D 1E Great Rectangle Multiverse, with shared Inner and Outer Planes:-Greyhawk Alternate Material Plane-FR Alternate Material Plane-Dragonlance Alternate Material Plane-Ravenloft was just two standalone adventures-Elric and Cthulhu in Deities & Demigods4) AD&D 2E Great Wheel Multiverse: (Planescape + Spelljammer + Chronomancer meta-settings)-Greyspace-Realmspace-Krynnspace-Athaspace-Bloodspace (Birthright)-(unnamed) "Mystaraspace" (Mystara was officially converted into AD&D 2E. There were Mystaran characters in Planescape, Spelljammer, and Ravenloft.)-Demiplane of Dread5) SAGA "Multiverse" - card-based rpg:-Dragonlance Fifth Age-suggestions for converting other D&D worlds into SAGA rules was covered in a DRAGON magazine article.6) Hackmaster 4E Multiverse - the AD&D 1e/2e rules and various D&D campaign worlds and modules were licensed by WotC to KenzerCo to make a comedic version. There was even a Hackjammer space-travel meta-setting.7) 3E D&D: A Multiverse of Multiverses: each main D&D world has its own cosmology, with its own separate set of Inner and Outer Planes. But still share the same Plane of Shadow. Also, in the 3E MotP, several alternate cosmologies were offered, not attached to a particular world.-Oerth Cosmology ("The D&D World") - the Great Wheel-FR Cosmology - the Great Tree-Eberron Cosmology - the Orrery - was birthed during this edition.-Dragonlance Cosmology-Blackmoor Cosmology-d20 Modern campaign models (reachable via Plane of Shadow)8) 4E D&D Multiverse: World Axis cosmology. Dawn War etc. shared by all.-Nerath-Forgotten Realms-Dark Sun-Eberron9) 5E D&D Multiverse - return to the 2E-era Great Wheel? but with some additions from 4E (Feywild, Shadowfell, Elemental Chaos)-FR-Ravenloft-Eberron-other worlds mentioned in PHB and DMG<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/d-d-realities" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/d-d-realities</a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/realities-and-worlds-chart" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/realities-and-worlds-chart</a></blockquote>

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