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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8637916" data-attributes="member: 10148">Compare the descriptive text in the 1E monster books and the original Monstrous Compendiums, for starters; way more similarities than differences, and outright reprinting at times. Nearly all differences between 1E and 2E lore are explained within 2E (for example, the status of Orcus is explained within Dead Gods), or simply represent expansion (or rules differences) rather than contradiction (such as the addition of the crystal spheres in Spelljammer, or the renaming of the Outer Planes and their creatures). They also had adventures that specifically transitioned the Realms and Greyhawk to the 2E ruleset, and continued the histories of both settings plus Dragonlance unbroken into 2E. There's no indication they were intended to be treated as separate lines of lore, and many, many indications that they were the same.Now, AD&amp;D and Basic D&amp;D, those had more lore differences (particularly at the cosmology level).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8637916, member: 10148"] Compare the descriptive text in the 1E monster books and the original Monstrous Compendiums, for starters; way more similarities than differences, and outright reprinting at times. Nearly all differences between 1E and 2E lore are explained within 2E (for example, the status of Orcus is explained within Dead Gods), or simply represent expansion (or rules differences) rather than contradiction (such as the addition of the crystal spheres in Spelljammer, or the renaming of the Outer Planes and their creatures). They also had adventures that specifically transitioned the Realms and Greyhawk to the 2E ruleset, and continued the histories of both settings plus Dragonlance unbroken into 2E. There's no indication they were intended to be treated as separate lines of lore, and many, many indications that they were the same. Now, AD&D and Basic D&D, those had more lore differences (particularly at the cosmology level). [/QUOTE]

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