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VGR works fine with the 2024 rules.

My guess is the 3rd “DLC” will be Lae’zel’s guide to Toril-Space, and feature updated gith stat blocks. Would like personally: Rashemen and the East.

Kara Tur is almost certainly far too big for the word count. al Qadim is too similar to Calimshan. The Netheril thing ties in to Rime of the Frostmaiden and the BG3 backstory.

Technically, they are all part of the same multiverse, but crossover adventures were a huge thing in the early 80s. Gygax did Metamorphosis Alpha and Wonderland crossovers himself (and a bunch of others unpublished because copywrite). Cthulhu exists in most D&D settings though.

Okay, some specific issues with Cormyr and the Purple Dragons as previously portrayed: It's a feudal monarchy in which non-nobles (e.g. peasants, foreigners) have minimal rights or freedom. So far, so historical. The problem is, these are supposed to be the good guys! The PDs operate within...

You know very well that’s nonsense, since I haven’t mentioned anything apart from Cormyr. Some bits are good, some bits are okay, most bits have multiple versions so I can pick whichever I like best, and some bits have aged very badly. Cormyr isn’t actually terrible though, it was just boring.

Easy. I read it. I also used it in a campaign, but mostly to spoof pseudo-medievalism. Personally, I dislike the blandification of subclasses. I think making them more specific makes them more interesting. And I can always tinker them if I want to use them for something else.

That’s purely down to taste. I happen to think the new version cooler and more modern than a boring order of generic Hollywood-medieval knights. I’m just mad that lore-fanatics stopped us getting the cool subclass to go with it.

Given that Boot Hill and Gamma World explicitly exist in the AD&D multiverse, and Cthulhu mythos was in Deities and Demigods, clearly that is a big fat “yes”.

It’s not “a priori”, it’s printed in the 1st edition rules.

The idea that everyone’s home game is part of the same multiverse, and characters can travel between them was established in the DMG (which predates the FR) so if an NPC appears in anyone’s personal game, that is a different version of that character. I.e. there is potentially an infinite number...

The First World idea draws very heavily on the Amber stories, in which there is one Pattern, and all the other worlds are just shadows of that.

Fantasy stories started out as folk tales. And many folk tales are extended metaphors: "don't play near the water children or Green Jenny will get you!" There was a Doctor Who story in which the Moon hatched into a giant space creature. It might seem silly, but the point of fantasy is you can...

The multiverse was there, in the rules, irrespective of if it was "needed" or not. Read the 1st edition DMG and you will find the words "parallel prime material plane" in black and white. And in the pop culture of the time. Why are people so keen to rewrite the history of the game? The game was...

Parallel prime material planes where in the 1st edition AD&D DMG. That’s how come Ed Greenwood was able to converse with Elminster and Mordenkainen in his kitchen in Canada (Dragon). It was a common idea that players could transfer PCs into different campaigns by planar travel. The Multiverse...

Of those, I would rate Andor highest, and it makes the interesting point that you don’t need to be hard SF to be serious SF. Perhaps fantasy could learn from that? GoT might be grimdark, but it doesn’t have anything helpful to say about the real world. I would rate Foundation 2nd, although...

The D&D multiverse predates TSR’s purchase of the Forgotten Realms. It’s in the core rules.

50 years worth, going by the things you list.

Your calculations are correct, and those 3 molecules are enough that all geostationary satellites will eventually fall. No, they are all low. So “low geostationary orbit” is always correct (if redundant).

True, however "orbit" can also be used loosely in non-scientific language, to indicate one thing going round another "The M25 is the London Orbital Motorway".