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I also think there is some interesting stuff established in the original material which could do with some expansion and development...

Well, there’s a lot there. The original drew on 70s/80s martial arts films mostly (Japanese/US ninja films and Shaw Brothers kung fu)...

There was quite a lot of Kara Tur that wasn’t Japanese in OA - sure, quite a few of the classes were Japan-specific (ninja, yakuza...

Very much this, there are a tonne of Asian writers and designers in Asia - China, Japan, Korea, South East Asia who could be brought in...

Well, if I get a wish list: 1) For it to make some historical/geographical/mythical/cultural sense and have some foundation in East and...

Yes, I just don’t think we have the evidence one way or another to say whether ghosts exist. Sure, it’s unlikely (more or less unlikely...

Well, I’m sorry to have to disagree. It’s quite permissible to say that a fact or phenomenon implies something despite not being a...

I’m this way with so many things. “I don’t know…” “…but I don’t think so.” “…but it seems likely.” “…and I really can’t even guess...

I’d like an agnostic option.

My favorite debunking story: In my philosophy class at university, the professor asked everyone in the room who believed in ghosts to...

Also learned about Joanna Southcott’s Box. That’s some gaslamp/urban fantasy fodder right there. “Southcott left a sealed wooden casket...

Yesterday I learned about the Manchu Han feast, an extremely traditional Chinese imperial banquet which has only rarely been tried in...

Finished Halting State by Charles Stross, which is basically a cyberpunk thriller written in 2008 and set in a a decade or two in the...

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A new, hilarious data point: just found out today that the latest medical patient electronic intake forms my Dad’s group uses is...