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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProgBard" data-source="post: 7011165" data-attributes="member: 6803722">I originally posted this in the "Lore isn't rules" thread, but by that time the participants were having much too much fun with their argument in progress (which, pretty please, let's not continue here) to give it much notice - but I'm still curious about it, so maybe it's worth a thread of its own._____So here's an intriguing question I've been mulling on, based on some of the conversation here and in the Other Thread. And partially it's intriguing to me because it doesn't have a right answer; there is inherently no "official" way to verify or disprove it.The 5e PHB has this in its Introduction (emphasis mine):The worlds of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game exist within a vast cosmos called the multiverse, connected in strange and mysterious ways to one another and to other planes of existence. such as the Elemental Plane of Fire and the lnfinite Depths of the Abyss. Within this multiverse are an endless variety of worlds. Many of them have been published as official settings for the D&D game. The legends of the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, Mystara, and Eberron settings are woven together in the fabric of the multiverse. Alongside these worlds are hundreds of thousands more, created by generations of D&D players for their own games. And amid all the richness of the multiverse, you might create a world of your own.Does your reading of this - in particular the bolded section - suggest to you that the multiverse contains Golarion? How about Aldea? The Scarred Lands? Freeport? Primeval Thule? The Lost Lands? Thieves' World? Nehwon?*Note that the question isn't "Are these things D&D?" (which I'm not sure is a terribly interesting question anyway) - it's whether you feel their existence in the strange and mysterious web of hundreds of thousands of worlds in the D&D multiverse is implied by the way the PHB describes it. And as I say, there's no way there even can be a right or wrong answer - but I do suspect that the way you answer the question reveals much about the way you view the role of lore.*The astute reader may have already noted that the examples given pass through a number of categories: Settings created for games that aren't officially D&D, but use rulesets explicitly based on the D&D engine; settings created by third parties for previous editions of D&D; settings with material written (or at least adapted) specifically for 5e; and literary settings that were once licensed as D&D settings, but aren't currently licensed for 5e. (And Golarion has a foot in a couple of places, given that the first materials written for it were third-party 3.5 adventures!) So do feel free to simply comment on whether those types of settings feel like part of the multiverse to you, if you find that's a more interesting approach to this subject than looking at settings on a case-by-case.</blockquote>

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