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I guess anime is your best source, then - and it's not a great source for serious consideration. Does anybody else have ideas?

Interestingly, I think Islamic countries have banned alcohol since the seventh century or so. It's evident that deleterious effects have been recognised in some substances for quite a while. On the other hand, I suspect a lot of prohibitions have revolved around prestige - did commoners in the...

Heh. I always thought the women in Yugioh looked a little... good. Apparently, CCGs really are a fast-paced world of corporate intrigue, deadly force, and glamourous ladies in Japan. Or so I'm sure we'd all like to believe...

Your links all say 'gmes.com' instead of 'games.com'. Might wanna fix that. Does an image drawn by hand using accurate pencil algorithms in high resolution on a pressure-sensitive tablet count as non-digital? I'm scared of wasting real art resources...

There's a different interpretation of the Blue, if you're interested... some people seem quite taken by it.

I'm not familiar with anything specifically alternate and robotic. However, there are two sources I'd go to: writers of the period (Asimov and others - Golden Age writers), who often wrote about robots (although they were writing in the 40s, not about them), and modern anime, which will...

Ah, that makes sense. I think it should be OK with three rarity levels. You could retitle them Commercial, Proprietary, and Prototype. (You might have a fourth level, Outdated, for things that have been passed by but still see use in distant rural areas.) It'd be interesting to move between...

Have you played much Command And Conquer: Red Alert 2? She plays Tanya. Sadly for some people that are not me, there's no equivalent male eye candy in the game...

Huh, I'd forgotten all about Cressia. That was fun, and very much in the spirit of Progress as required by technology.

That's certainly a valid way of going about it, although tech levels are fairly much independant of my strict classification methods. Most people would consider biological robots to be a far-future concept, but the word 'robot' is taken from the Romanian word for 'slave', which we've had since...

Yeah, if there's a giant robot shooting at you it's rarely a good idea to stop and think about morphology and actuator tech, so why does it matter? More seriously: Nanocolonies could be made by nanotech or microbiotech, because at a certain point those technologies come together - it's all...

I've considered it, and even gone so far as to implement it in my Dungeon Damage world. In there, they're just coming out of the European Dark Ages, so there's a little Roman knowledge lost to history, but at the same time, achieving greater magic is quite possible. On the other hand, that caps...

Learn a ruleset? Isn't that classified data? *Frowns suspiciously at Leopold* That is to say, if you can con someone else into running the game for you, you'll be entirely happy, as (IIRC) one of the aspects of Paranoia is that players don't shouldn't know the rules.

That's a third category to put after my two (shape and operational type): occupation. As Umbran said, you can have nanobots or androids or whatever do just about any of these... with a few exceptions. A Dune-esque hunter/killer is a smart munition shape. Pet-bots are usually canoids (the shape...

Well, if we stick to the original 'robot' meaning 'slave', we rule out cyborgs - like people with pacemakers, who are emphatically not part of a slave class. But that would be boring, so let's get some new ideas! Villano is referring to 'synthezoids', IIRC. I would class these as androids...

I was TVless up to age 14 or so. By that point, I was comfortable enough in my own skull that I didn't need TV, and so I only watch what I want - and that isn't very much. Of course, I'm pretty rigid about what little I do like - if it's worth watching, it's worth making an effort for. Then I...

Some spells that might have actually been developed, but are nevertheless esoteric and/or useless: Breaking the Seven-Eyed Seal of Akranoth (level 6; a level 9 variant is quicker and safer to cast) Originally designed to release foul Akranoth from its distant prison crafted by the Elder Lords...

Not only that, but Dex measures acumen with associated skills - thus, someone with high Dex is not only good at moving the way they want to, they know which way they want to move in order to keep a low profile. "Instincts of the cat", if you will. Intelligence is also useful in hiding, but its...

Nope. She's a contemporary pop star, blonde, somewhat ravishing to my untrained eye (untrained eye? What'chu talkin' about, fool? -My brain), currently featuring on a documentary series (one I will not call 'reality TV', as it doesn't have any ridiculously unrealistic stunts or situations)...

I define 'good' in two ways. First, doing what is right. Animal instincts and population dynamics are therefore Good, as are quantum physics. Second, progression towards undeniable perfection: infinite diversity in infinite combinations describes this state very well. No matter what you think...