It is the plane of Terra, and your campaign, in all likelihood. The Prime Material Plane (or Physical Plane) houses the universe and all of its parallels. There exist an infinite number of parallel universes and planes of existence in the fantastic "multiverse" of ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. The Gygaxian multiverse was then slightly expanded and codified in the AD&D Player's Handbook (1978). While most histories of the D&D multiverse then concentrate on the evolution of the various inner and outer planes, it is really this idea of the Prime Material used by Gygax that is so intriguing and worth developing, IMO.ĮDIT- also, please see this post by The Core Rule Rule Books. The reason this is important is that it is, as far as I know, the first written acknowledgement that the Prime Material Plane is legion it contains not just an infinite set of planes, but a really big infinite set (something something aleph).
The Fantasy worlds you create belong to the Prime Material.
The planet Earth and everything on it, all of the solar systems and the whole universe are of the Prime Material. The normal plane for human-type life forms is the Prime Material Plane. But the most important things to note are these brief notes:įor game purposes the DM is to assume the existence of an infinite number of co-existing planes. It's the beginning of D&D cosmology that we later see expanded on. The Proto-history of the Gygaxian Multiverse.ĭ&D's multiverse first started in the campaigns being run by Gary Gygax, but the first print version that I am aware of is Dragon #8 (July, 1977), which gave us the first glimpse of the extra-planar nature of the D&D multiverse.
I was looking at the following conversations in these two threads about the multiverse in D&D, and how that certain Card Game's setting can be incorporated into the D&D multiverse, and, for that matter, how the multiple D&D settings that we are seeing now (and have been used in the past) can be reconciled with each other.Īll of which made me think about the origins of the D&D multiverse specifically, why a return to the old Gygaxian multiverse should solve all of the problems. Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
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