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A variant of this would be Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. The religion has become so dominated by doctrine and structure that what people really believe in at this point is not the god, but the Church. Almost nobody has a direct connection to the deity anymore, so their voice and message has been...

Probably significantly more than the 2 gp per day for a skilled hireling, plus 300 gp for each casting of fireball.

One obvious possiblity, since we're dealing with a group that has easy access to high-level divine magic, is how one deals with passing of rights and responsibilities in a world with resurrection. If the Pope dies and a new Pope is chosen, but then the old Pope's supporters (or the new one's...

I finished Avowed last weekend. As a game on the arcade-y side of RPGs it was pretty good, if rather shallow. I never felt any great connection to my companions as I would in, say, Mass Effect or Baldur's Gate 3. It's also, similarly to Skyrim or Cyberpunk 2077, a game in which I found my...

That could just be Isla Sorna, the production facility island from JP II and III. It was sealed off from public access as a 'nature' reserve at the end of II, which tracks with it being off-limits in this movie.

Likewise when ordering online. JustEat adds a tip for the restaurant by default, and provides the option to tip your delivery driver.

Also many companies will use one of the various generic transactional portals that are available these days to plug into an existing website, and while they can be customised to fit, it'd be easy to leave a tipping option enabled even if it's not appropriate to your industry or location, either...

Don't leave us hanging now. :)

Yeah, never seen that in the UK outside of restaurant purchases or taxi fares, either online or in-person

Done really well in an early episode of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, with a demon who was sealed away because he'd developed a new form of magical attack spell that nothing could block, and it was impossible to actually defeat him permanently.

Never had a problem with him, but I have occasionally struggled with other shows. Subtitles are your friend.

Probably not "keep doing it for a few centuries" great, though. Even in a regular urban environment, over the course of a couple of hundred years the most likely cause of death would start to be random accident, let alone in an inherently high-risk setting.

I dunno, you'd have to be pretty unhenged to try something like that.

Good Lingerie Injury table?

I saw this and thought of you.

And also an exception to the whole "easily-escapable deathtrap" cliche. Goldfinger doesn't leave Bond to die there, he sticks around, and Bond doesn't manage a gadget-assisted daring escape - instead, Goldfinger learns that he's under surveillance by the FBI and decides to keep Bond alive and on...

It's a step beyond the Doctor Evil schtick - you put him in an escapable deathtrap, but don't even bother turning up in the first place.

It's also available to purchase on Youtube, if you feel any better about giving Google your cash.

The water from the Decanter gushes out as though from a high-pressure hose, but what if it's sunk so deep that the external water pressure is even greater? Would that effectively stopper the bottle?