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My first attempt at creating elves did not go according to plan.  I love fantasy as a genre. Which is odd to say on introspection, because the amount of fantasy literature, films and games that I have indulged in and am genuinely fond of is rather limited. It's basically limited to these options...  Literature : Discworld and The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, The Hobbit and Mogworld.  Films : The Lord of The Rings trilogy and the made-for-Netflix film Bright. Don't judge me, dammit, I likes what I likes.  Video Games : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, Darkest Dungeon, Bastion, The Battle for Middle Earth II and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Wow, I might play too many video games.  You'll notice that most of Tolkien's literary works are missing from the literature section. You'll also notice that no direct Dungeons & Dragons product is in there at all, aside from the IP that was directly inspired by it (which to be fair, is a lo...

Bloody hell, it's been five years since Jurassic World came out and paleontology nerds the world over despaired at ever seeing scientifically accurate dinosaurs in cinema ever again. Bringing up that again wasn't what inspired this post, however. The recent speculative zoology binge I've been on got me thinking: what fun it would be to imagine a dinosaur. Back in the day, Jurassic World had a go and the Indominus Rex ended up being a rather boring design that was simultaneously too exaggerated and not outlandish enough. Naturally, this prompted the palaeontology nerds to rally and come up with much more interesting designs: Jolly good stuff, people. But now we can stop talking about the creatively bankrupt institution that is Hollywood, let's imagine some dinosaurs! First, some ground rules for the process: Our Dinosaurs Must be... - Physically possible. They shouldn't break the laws of physics or biology. - Placed somewhere on the dinosaur family tree....