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Still relatively straightforward biologically. Just two yes or no check boxes rather that one this or that checkbox. Maybe add a "can change?" checkbox for each of them. That's what, 16 options. (Unless you're talking about fungal mating strains, but it's arguable whether or not those fit the...

I immediately thought of the line of Jurassic Park where they padded everything out with frog DNA

The Festival - Toon spoof of HPL's "The Festival" where instead of being made of thousands of worms the big reveal at the end is that everybody is three kids in a trenchcoat Cenozoic Park modern adventure in non-fantastical setting. It's exactly the plot of Jurassic Park except that the animals...

A lot of things in blockbuster movies don't even feel plausible in the movie. Like the Naboo thing from earlier. (And physics in Star Wars in in general now that I think of it, like the tiny star in episode 7, or how long it took Jedha to explode)

That's not in the same category because it's part of the premise of the setting that neat symmetircal "a mates with b and b mates with c so a mates with c" relationships. That's already a little bit true in the real world, but in the fantasy world dragons and fiends and celestials throw it...

Wait!? Are you measuring strength as lifting capacity divided by body weight??????

"If an animal were isometrically scaled up by a considerable amount, its relative muscular strength would be severely reduced" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law

Plus due to the square cube law net strength is going to be lower for the larger creature of similar build. Similar to how an ant the size of a dog would have less carrying capacity than a regular ant due to its weight because its weight increases disproportionally fast The assumption of...

Did this planet have normal outer layers? or is your point here more that a gravitationally bound planet made of entirely of water would have a core of either supercritical fluid or Ice-10(?)?

Hypothetically the heat could be used to transform some types of organic materials into some kind of charcoal or aerogel, both of which are good heat insulators. You'd have to choose the material carefully though, as many types of aerogel are destroyed by water ] Thermite and gunpowder will...

I just had another thought. What if the largest part of the value comes from some kind of mystical preparation of the gem and not the raw value of the gem itself, and the 'using up' of the gem still leaves you with a gem but one which is no longer suitable for spellcasting and now has only maybe...

That reminds me of the sci-fi movie Ad Astra, which billed itself as hard sci-fi, but had a sci-fi technobabble phenomenon that could have come from a 1950's b-movie or a lazily written episode of Star Trek driving the plot. They didn't land on the sun but they had a malfunctioning and/or...

I'm thinking a combination of the elemental replenishment thing plus some of them being synthetic

People worry about nuclear power but what you REALLY don't want in your backyard is hydroelectricity. To put this in context, Chernobyl only killed about 4000-16000 people, and that's including deaths that were only tangentially related; that's only a tenth as much as the worst dam disaster

I'm thinking sea level rise from overuse of waterwheels driven by Decanters of Endless Water

Ghorus Toth's Metal Melt; from Magic of Faerun IIRC

It occurs to me that underwater it would potentially be feasible to build a skyscraper from just wood. The bouyancy would cancel out the weight and the biggest problem would be to stop it from snapping in the current (which could potentially be alleviated by omitting some of the walls and just...

Maybe change it to "intransigence" or "obstinacy"?

Also, Is cheese and crackers a sandwich do you guys think?

In regard to Paranoia rather than D&D *'Fallout' videogame series *Portal/Portal 2 *Sealab 2021 *Let's Visit the World of the Future (and to a lesser extent all other productions of the SubGenius Foundation) *Doctor Strangelove *Futurama (especially the Central Bureauceacy episode)