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<blockquote data-quote="Jeeves" data-source="post: 309498" data-attributes="member: 6015">I try to stray away from pure copying of very unique ideas... like very famous cities from worlds or even entire pre-made campaign worlds (like FR and stuff,) for one day I might like to write about the world that has been in my head all of my life, and I would rather not be sued.That does not mean I do not scavenge Dungeon magazine for adventure ideas.&nbsp; I really like scavenging for ideas and maps and stuff better than just plug-and-playing, I guess.It never helps to always rely on your own creativity... a secret companies would rather you not know because then you would buy less modules! =)However sometime taking people's original vague ideas and adding your own flavor to it into making something newer is a good thing... I have always liked the lands of Calormen from the Narnian books so much more than the way-too-white/christian/western/always-right god alegory crap of the main land of Narnia from those books... I liked Calormen so much that I eventually had to break down to realize it was permentantly stuck in my world and could not be removed... thus I changed the names (Calorhastaat now) and over the years it has slowely morphed into something only inspired by Calormen... not a copy or plug and play clone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeeves, post: 309498, member: 6015"] I try to stray away from pure copying of very unique ideas... like very famous cities from worlds or even entire pre-made campaign worlds (like FR and stuff,) for one day I might like to write about the world that has been in my head all of my life, and I would rather not be sued. That does not mean I do not scavenge Dungeon magazine for adventure ideas. I really like scavenging for ideas and maps and stuff better than just plug-and-playing, I guess. It never helps to always rely on your own creativity... a secret companies would rather you not know because then you would buy less modules! =) However sometime taking people's original vague ideas and adding your own flavor to it into making something newer is a good thing... I have always liked the lands of Calormen from the Narnian books so much more than the way-too-white/christian/western/always-right god alegory crap of the main land of Narnia from those books... I liked Calormen so much that I eventually had to break down to realize it was permentantly stuck in my world and could not be removed... thus I changed the names (Calorhastaat now) and over the years it has slowely morphed into something only inspired by Calormen... not a copy or plug and play clone. [/QUOTE]

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