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Pretty much the whole of the urban fantasy subgenre for a start (Dresden Files, Rivers of London etc). Steampunk-adjacent fantasy such...

GoT managed to look good and have interesting characters established in episode 1. The TV adaptation of WoT had unlikeable characters...

Something can belong to more than one genre at the same time. Problem solved.

How do you determine when something is supernatural?

Sounds like helping to me.

There is no such thing as “ideologically neutral”. You either represent, or you exclude.

My coworkers who ask to play -- running Heroes of the Borderlands for them this weekend -- are majority female.

Or maybe the Shadovar who survi ed the crash regrouped and are rebuilding in the wastes.

So what you are saying is, it’s a secret.

Maybe a contingency spell teleported it. Or Shar picked it and moved it.

Rocket Jump? Mythal Repellent Batspray? Some glairing omissions too.

I always liked the idea that Xorn don't see meat-based beings as intelligent, so taking treasure from them is essentially mining.

If you look at the gender of the people who are reading fantasy these days, it's more female.

I put Forbidden Planet in my number 1 slot, but aside from that other 50s films failed to make my top 5, influential as they were. I...

I gather we're ignoring the 50's here? There's some that (though they've mostly disappeared into the rear view mirror at that point)...