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Sure, I dig roleplaying, too, but I there's only so far I can take or expect others to take this elf-game seriously. I won't, and I...

Maybe, but there is usually some sort of seed that multiple people pick up on. For example, the occasional Welsh dwarf comes from the...

Certainly. It also might have simply been a parallel development.

There is the pink slime in Ghostbusters 2.

It may have influenced Warhammer, which influenced Warcraft and so on. Influence can grow virally. Anyone remember what accents the...

Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953/1961), by Poul Anderson, has a dwarf character, Hugi, who speaks in a Scottish dialect.

It doesn’t seem to work for me.

Clockwork automata, roc.

Nah, it was Warhammer that made dwarves Scottish (specifically Glaswegian) in the 80s. Terry Pratchett has both Scottish and Welsh...

Cormyr and the Dalelands are neighbors, and I wager the lore was supposed to be how the PDKs have expanded their territory to protecting...

I always felt Mass Effect “borrowed” a lot more from Babylon 5 than from Trek. Aside from the obvious similarity of B5 and the Citidel...

I'm pretty sure a thousand year old elf is a lot more alien to a human than a goliath is, yet old school players never object when...

Classic Doctor Who is a gold mine of plot ideas.

Space 1999 is a variant on this too. It may not technically be a derelict, but they are travelling through space in something they can’t...

Owlcat are extremely ambitious. What they lack are resources and the judgment to know what is important and what to cut. Wrath of the...