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To be fair, most folks can’t tell their Victorian from their Edwardian from their turn of the century American, etc. It’s all just...

Lol I literally live in Victoria, BC. Victoriana is our whole sub theme. I teach Victorian literature. You’ll have to try harder...

I actually would prefer that more in D&D than some of the bland Magic Crystal battery imagery.

As a semi-tangent; There should be steam engines. I mean, summon a fire elemental (even a minor one) bind it into a furnace, add water.

The last time I used charm person as a good PC I used it to interrogate bad guys instead of intimidation. I was really sick of threats...

I usually limit mind control (of PCs) to combat related things such as "Drop you sword" "stand there and do nothing" "Walk away", etc...

As Jedi mind tricks go, was Rey's use of same to escape the Chair of Interrogation moral? The faceless storm trooper wasn't really...

Whilst I don't think D&D as whole has become steampunk, and it lacks many significant aspects of the genre (such as prevalent use of...

Good, evil, bleh. Above everything else, mind control is hot.

everything that corporates do is evil ;) but the subliminal movie thing is false - it was a publicity stunt. In 1957 James Vicary...

I'm willing to accept a rather broad definition of mind control that includes deception, directly controlling someone's physical...

I think in fantasy and sci-fi, there’s a certain level of the ends justifying the means. It may be immoral but not necessarily Evil if...

Ahhh, yeah, it's probably just not an area I'm as familiar with.

I haven’t seen it with Star Trek as much, interestingly enough.