1) The cosmologies were created over time, in-house (by staff designers at TSR and later WotC). Gary Gygax outlined the planes in issue 8 of The Dragon, then in issue 67 detailed the Astral Plane. I detailed the Nine Hells in three issues of Dragon, and have had an... #realmslore
//This might seem like a silly question but how much of the cosmos came from your imagination too? How much of the Outer Planes and Realmspace did you have a hand in creating and tangentially, out of the FR Gods, who is your favourite/who would you personally choose to worship?

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2) ...ongoing hand down the years in detailing planes crafted by others. Stephen Inniss and I co-detailed Limbo, in approximately 360 never-published pages. (That's where Stephen's lillend monster comes from.) #realmslore
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3) And if I lived in the Realms, I'd worship ALL of the deities; no sane inhabitant of Toril is a monotheist. I do have faves: Mystra, Azuth, Eldath, Lurue, Chauntea, Sharess, Eilistraee, but almost all of them are "my children," so I don't want to choose just one. #realmslore
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Hi, I have a question. Is posible for me, use the planes of D&D in a novel I am writing?
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Strictly speaking, no, they are part of the copyrighted and trademarked IP owned by Hasbro (via TSR and Wizards of the Coast). HOWEVER, many of the planes of D&D are drawn from pre-copyright-days mythology, and you CAN use those (the rivers Styx and Lethe, some planes). Research!
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