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A road system with no traffic rules - what sort of vehicle is best?
In Britopia there were the Leftists who believed motorists should drive on the left and the Rightists who believed they should drive on the Right. The vote split exactly down the middle and it was finally decided that there would be no rule at…
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Could you do acrobatics and long-distance running in an ankle-length dress?
So this should probably belong on clothes.stackexchange.com, if there were such a thing, but here I am with a question that I hope is not too complicated or specific for this site.
My situation: I've got an order of witches, that try to hide…
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If soul reincarnation is real, then with an increasing population, why doesn't the world run out of souls?
For the purposes of this question, assume that:
reincarnation is a real thing, and is based on a "soul" which, after (and only after) death of one host body, potentially with some delay, is reborn into a different host body1, and
reincarnation only…
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In modern day combat, what would warrant singing during battle?
Cicad the singer is having a downtime in his career.
Over the millennia, Cicad sang anywhere from royal courts to farmers' cottages and have been rewarded with many, many hand-claps.
But to keep going, indeed to preserve his immortality, he must…
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What's the point of clothes?
I'm developing a world with many different races, many of whom live in relative isolation. I'm trying to understand how the fashion of each cultures/species would evolve. In our world we're obsessed with clothes, the idea of walking around town…
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What would convince people to solve disputes with a deadly card game?
Let's consider that the card game needs to be played, and equipment that may even kill you if you lose (via blades, electric shocks or the like, it could also even kill people by summoning supernatural forces to anyone who were to lose the game).…
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How would a society isolated by monster attacks get food?
So I've got a medieval fantasy world where humanity has been forced to live exclusively in fortified towns and city states because of attacks by monsters. These monsters are not kaiju level in size so smaller and more populous, think Grimm from…
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Would time travelling to the present be lethal to a person from the 1200s?
John Smith is a time traveller from the year 2018, he goes back in time to the year 1200 and in the process falls in love with a woman of that era. He doesn't want to abandon her so he decides to bring her with him.
How would John protect her from…
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Only Three Books: Restarting Physics after civilization collapses
Global famines have dropped the population to 1 billion people and global civilization has collapsed. In an effort to save future civilization some time, you want to provide some information to kick start civilization's regrowth.
We assume a…
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How would multi-race humanoid evolution happen?
If we were to pull the following races out of a D&D players handbook and remove them from the setting/history of Faerun and look at them from a biological/non-magic perspective (no other planes of existence, no Fey realm etc etc…
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Would it be more or less disastrous if a zombie is curable?
A zombie outbreak is disastrous, but what if a zombie is curable?
Let's say:
It is the traditional slow movement zombie and has a tendency to attack living people. A zombie has similar strength of a normal human, but is immune to electric shock…
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How would space battles alter combat tactics?
A thought occurred to me while watching Ender's Game.
Why are these two fleets in space lining up like two armies during the revolutionary war (or pick your war of the musket/volley era)?
Thinking about it further it occurs to me that in basically…
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Suppose the Orcs are mammals, why is their skin green?
Most species of animal, especially mammals, have a special skin cell the produces melanin, which is responsible for the color of their skin, but orcs are generally depicted as green creatures and, of course they are another race too, but for this…
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What could justify a save point before a boss fight in RPG?
The protagonist in this RPG is a robot fighting the oppressive human government. In his quest to liberate his fellow robots, he founded a robotic rebel army and finally liberated a factory that now serves as their base.
Liberating the factory is…
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How to control alcohol consumption in my country?
I have a problem with too many men suffering from alcoholism in my country. I tried putting large taxes and limiting the stores that sell alcohol but that led to cottage industry of low quality moonshine sold on the black market. Quote often with…
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