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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 8797503" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I was going to say that I can't really relate to this thread, that most of my influences have gone the other way, gaming => literature, e.g. I probably wouldn't be enjoying the Lies of Locke Lamora right now if I hadn't GMed enough to be interested in things like pacing and how awful thieves often are in D&D (Lies of Locke Lamora makes them interesting).However, I thought of one clear influence. In the Book of Mormon, there's a section where Mormon (the primary author of the book and a military historian) spends several chapters going into depth on various strategic feints and ruses used in one of his civilization's wars: drawing armies out of fortifications, leading them on long marches before hitting them in the rear when they're tired, leading them on long marches so you can double back in a forced march and take possession of their own fortifications before they return, etc., never using the same trick twice in a row. I think it's safe to say that reading the war chapters in the book of Alma was largely responsible for igniting my initial interest in warfare outside the box, what we today in RPGs call Combat As War as opposed to Combat As Sport. (Also, in RPG rule systems that make it matter if you're tired, have the high ground, haven't eaten recently, are surrounded, etc.)</blockquote>