Recent content by Parmandur

No. Actually, Traveller: The New Era replaced Megatraveller entirely. It...didn't go well. So much so, in fact, that itnis a pretty direct analogy to 4E D&D. I think you basically are right thouh: Traveller has a history that parallels D&D pretty closely, a Rollercoaster to an evergreen present.

Here's the thing though, with Beyond theybseem to have finally nailed that.

They really seem to be pivoting more towards Beyond as a service to customer for business purposes, rather than a rules treadmill.

On the contrary, I think the next iteration will be another take on 5E, but they will try to move away from edition numbers and just call it "D&D"

The Betflix offer splits off all of the Discovery cable channels as an independent cable channel company, Discovery. Paramount wants to buy them, too.

We can go a step farther: while new variants do get released, Backgammon and Chess are fairly stable at this point. I thinkt he Crearice Commons release of D&D makes wild change to D&D-as-D&D sociological improbable.

Never heard of scalloped potatoes without butter, whipping cream, AND cheese.

Pretty simply a matter of material culture: injection molding was only invented around WWII, and then soon people figured out they could make dice easily in any shape. People.made dice in other shapes throughout history, but cubes are thr easiest to carve. Still the easiest to store and ship...

I'm sorry...box and powder???

Right now, I'm just annoyed that this is going to be constantly in the news for the next two years.

Thar has more to do with ease of manufacturing.

Edited, it should have said d30.

The Catalan solids, like the d30 or the Rhombic d12, are acceptable.

Boiled potatoes seasoned well can be great.

Yeah, even the most AD&D 5E Setting, in a lot of ways but Mercer was definitely using that 3E stuff when world building.