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<blockquote data-quote="dren" data-source="post: 244679" data-attributes="member: 5176">Common World Themes&quot;I've been skimming a lot of threads on different sites and have come up with the following common world themes...&quot;Sometimes to be truley unique, you can't be afraid to go past the familiar. These motifs are there, because, we as readers and players enjoy them. They embody some of the deepest shared universal beliefs of humanity. The trick is to use one of these common themes and outdo every other writer, or potential writer that used it. In otherwords...Dark Sun, &quot;outduned&quot; Dune.Ravenloft &quot;out-vamped&quot; DraculaFR &quot;out-detailed&quot; OZ, Alice in Wonderland, Conan and many others.We had to reel in our imaginations, use the same themes but in a new or different way that other players can relate to without appearing as a hack.For me, I went with a Sesame Street themed world. I'm trying to bring new players into the hobby at an earlier age, it will help expand the RPG industry.Dren, 19th level Grover, 1st level Oscar</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dren, post: 244679, member: 5176"] [b]Common World Themes[/b] "I've been skimming a lot of threads on different sites and have come up with the following common world themes..." Sometimes to be truley unique, you can't be afraid to go past the familiar. These motifs are there, because, we as readers and players enjoy them. They embody some of the deepest shared universal beliefs of humanity. The trick is to use one of these common themes and outdo every other writer, or potential writer that used it. In otherwords... Dark Sun, "outduned" Dune. Ravenloft "out-vamped" Dracula FR "out-detailed" OZ, Alice in Wonderland, Conan and many others. We had to reel in our imaginations, use the same themes but in a new or different way that other players can relate to without appearing as a hack. For me, I went with a Sesame Street themed world. I'm trying to bring new players into the hobby at an earlier age, it will help expand the RPG industry. Dren, 19th level Grover, 1st level Oscar [/QUOTE]

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