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No contradiction. The feedback was simply “do you like this y/n”. They don’t read the comments, it’s too expensive and difficult to analyse. Allowing comments is just a ploy to encourage people to participate. Thus the lore is still changed even though the reason for the change was voted into...

As already mentioned, you would have to have a prediction before you could test anything. What do you mean by paranormal? If you can test something, then it’s just normal. And, the laws of thermodynamics are themselves subject to potential falsification*. The laws of Physics are only true until...

Without any anything physical to prevent it - thermodynamics? Possible but not that I know of - then it must exist, many times over. Mortality is a very human-centric concept.

Chocolate sauce with sprinkles.

Lifespans measured in millennia.

That’s not true. Socrates is already dead, he can’t do it again.

Tolkien gives his orcs and trolls urban working class accents, and some hobbits, including Sam, rural working class accents. His dwarves have pretty neutral accents. Elves use archaic language, rather than upper class, as you would expect for a long lived people (also the reason Yoda speaks how...

This is the cover of the Warhammer RPG from 1986. Note the Scottish-coded dwarf in the bottom left.

Maybe, but there is usually some sort of seed that multiple people pick up on. For example, the occasional Welsh dwarf comes from the association dwarves=miners=Welsh. I would suggest that for the Scots, the association is stubbornness. In The Hobbit, he dwarves are certainly extremely...

There is the pink slime in Ghostbusters 2.

It may have influenced Warhammer, which influenced Warcraft and so on. Influence can grow virally. Anyone remember what accents the dwarves had in the BBC radio adaptations of Tolkien?

It doesn’t seem to work for me.

Clockwork automata, roc.

Nah, it was Warhammer that made dwarves Scottish (specifically Glaswegian) in the 80s. Terry Pratchett has both Scottish and Welsh dwarves, also dating from the 80s. Warcraft just picked up an existing trope.

I always felt Mass Effect “borrowed” a lot more from Babylon 5 than from Trek. Aside from the obvious similarity of B5 and the Citidel, we have a properly military organisation, jump gates/mass relays for FTL, cosmic horror antagonists, experiments on humans to give them psionics/biotic powers...

I'm pretty sure a thousand year old elf is a lot more alien to a human than a goliath is, yet old school players never object when players completely ignore the impact of having been born long before the humans' kingdom was founded.

Classic Doctor Who is a gold mine of plot ideas.

Space 1999 is a variant on this too. It may not technically be a derelict, but they are travelling through space in something they can’t control, surviving whenever they encounter until they can get off.

Owlcat are extremely ambitious. What they lack are resources and the judgment to know what is important and what to cut. Wrath of the Righteous is very similar to BG3 (especially in turn based mode). About as close as you can get. WH40K yeah, has it's issues as a setting that might be...

I think I should mention that Spiritualism is an officially recognised religion (at least in the UK). Ergo, criticising it's beliefs are against this forum's rules on the discussion of religion. IMO, it doesn't matter if someone's beliefs are objectively "True". One thing you learn by studying...