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I see no reason to create new rules of nature for day to day things. Just assume magic is the force of will overcoming physics in a specific way.

Check out Mad Sweeney and Hinzelmann in the book "American Gods". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods

A clone seems more like an artificial twin, I do not see how a clone would have the same soul as its original. If you could transfer souls, cloning yourself could produce an unlimited supply of hosts for your soul, making you effectively immortal. Something to think about...

So what would be a good option based on current knowledge for a possible destination? Where should we go?

These look amazing, I want to try the cashew...

I am building a campaign on Scabard.com, it has made expanding on my early notes a lot easier and has actually spurred a bunch of new ideas by letting me see how things are connected.

If someone could make a line of organic nut butters that did not need to be stirred, I would eat the :):):):) out of them. We also need to go for a wider variety. Why not have pistachio, macadamia, cashew, and walnut butters? Let's go for broke, butter ALL the nuts!

Psionics has been getting short shrift, did this idea ever get anywhere?

When I was a wee, small lad, before Dark Sun came out, I had a homebrew race called the Vaimeyen who used a mental power to alter creatures and make their own biotech. Damned if I know what happened to my notes, but it can be done. They had armour made from sets of custom grown parasitic sea...

That just seems boring to me, it is purely cosmetic. At least come up with a theory for how things are supposed to work, don't be a lazy writer.

But part of the fun of the game is filling in gaps by developing systems to cover things not in the game already, answering questions like how much water and fuel a steam golem needs to function, how long can you fight in steam powered armour, and other things you need to steam power rules for...

It seems like an underdeveloped idea in fantasy settings. I wish there was more content for it in the game...

What other settings have used something similar to Lifeshaping in an RPG?

Hmm. Wouldn't a steam powered construct basically treat coal or wood the way other creatures treat food? They either get their ration of fuel or suffer from exhaustion and end eventually end up immobile. Thoughts?

Great art in those cards, but how would you stat them in an RPG?

Transferring consciousness is a fascinating idea. I thought "Tale of the Body-Thief" was one of the more exciting vampire novels Anne Rice did. I would love to be able to switch bodies with people. This idea had so much potential, there were endless avenues the story could have gone down...

Anyone go for almond butter? What other nuts make good alternatives to peanut butter?

The amount of time planned for the trip, the number of people going, and how homogeneous the population is, are going to vastly change the potential for linguistic drift. I can read novels by Mark Twain with no trouble at all, but cannot understand some modern rap lyrics. Strict, universal...

Even if you are vegetarian, if you are going to build a civilization you will need animals for some things. You may need Earth insects to pollinate crops. Eggs and milk produce B-vitamins that cannot be found in plants.

A question I have not seen touched on, how many people do you send? You need to be genetically diverse and have a sustainable population for a colony, but you have limited space on the ship. Also, what about pets and livestock? Do you take Fido? Do you bring a herd of sheep for milk and wool...