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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 959518" data-attributes="member: 67">Now, about the Dark Crystal Factor(tm)There were a few things in Wulf's entry that reminded me, specifically, of the Dark Crystal.  Things like the bad guy crumbling to dust in death, his general similarities to the Skeksis, the similarities of the albino elves to the Gharthim (I may be misspelling all of these, by the way), as well as the spider's similarity to same.Then there was the whole life-essence stealing by machine thing.And finally, the tower.  It doesn't map directly with anything, but it feels like it belongs in the world of the Dark Crystal.  To put it another way, if I were to run a campaign set in that world, this tower would fit right in.And that's really the difference between these elements and lightful's dileberate nod to the Dark Crystal.  The feel is what sells it.Of course, Wulf apparently wasn't even thinking of the Dark Crystal, so I guess this says something else:  The reasons I love his entry are the same reasons I love the Dark Crystal.One more general note, anyone who doesn't realize by now that I tend to favor high-fantasy (and low-power, but that's a different discussion), hasn't done their homework.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   That's okay, but all other things being equal in two entries, it's good to know where my predispositions lie.</blockquote>

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