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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".

Geostationary orbits are relatively low orbits - 36,000 km for Earth. That's low enough to have very slight atmospheric breaking. The Moon's orbit is roughly ten times the distance. So "low geostationary orbit" can mean the orbit is both low and geostationary (true). It's doesn't imply the...

I did find him easier to understand in the second series, but I think that was probably acting - as Andor grew in confidence he stopped mumbling.

The spaceship crashed into a tower block does feel very like a dungeon bash. You open the door and see: a suspicious pod plant; a room full of partying nobles etc.

I don’t think we know where the Mangetout collected its specimens. It may have been back to the Prometheus world and to LV-426. Then, assuming these specimens are lost, the Nostromo is diverted to try again.

Was that a Roy Batty model synth? I thought those had been discontinued years ago.