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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BruceRCordell" data-source="post: 6837641" data-attributes="member: 6821968">My inspiration to author Illithiad and the 3 supporting adventures was Bruce Heard, who scheduled products at TSR among other things. So thank you Bruce!I had a lot of fun writing the Illithiad because I was able to bring in a lot of my bio-science background to really make them creepy--that's how the illithid tadpoles came to be--I imagined them as parasites that overtook the host. I also drew a bit from my recent discovery of I Ching to create the illithid writing. And of course my love of Larry Niven and his race of tentacled mind controllers--the Slavers. That's where the Alderson disc came from, by the way. Well, the Slavers never had one, but Larry Niven wrote about them in Bigger Than Worlds way back when.In hindsight, I still really love those adventures. And no, I don't know that the RPG creative process is any different, especially now. I had a lot of leeway during the early years of my writing, and it's like that again at MCG. At TSR, the upper layers of management didn't care what you were doing. And at MCG, there are no layers of upper management, so to speak <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=";)" /></blockquote>