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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 1592643" data-attributes="member: 12425">RPGs had the effect of boosting my interest in fiction, history and theatre. I already enjoyed SF and fantasy, but when I got into role playing games, I found myself interest even more in sources of inspiration.Fiction, TV, movies, history, myths and other sources are just that. Sources. I draw inspiration from something that strikes me as interesting or cool. From that I spin out a plot and story ideas. Once it gets to the players, they make that into their own story. At that point, I'm just along to referee and contribute because the best RPG stories are ones that never could be predicted at all.To give one example, I created a fantasy campaign called Terra Incognita, where Prince John Lackland was a hero. He led a fleet of ships across the ocean to a land of fey and cold iron, where Vikings still existed in the far North, and French Crusaders founded a kingdcom to the South. And so on. This was a synthesis of many ideas from fiction. From that point however, the stories were purely new and original.</blockquote>