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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8900345" data-attributes="member: 85555">One thing I have found with material like Le Morte d'Arthur is they are often more conducive to inspiration for adventures than modern fantasy novels. I am less familiar with Le More d'Arthur than I would like to be, but my memory of it is very short chapters that each capture something that feels pulled out of folklore and that is a pretty good resource. Whereas a fantasy novel will often tell a longer story that takes more time to get at some RPG inspiration. At least for me. My favorite resource is Strange Tales from the Chinese Studio by Pu Songling. Some of those stories are just a page long, some ten or more pages. But they all each have a strong kernel of inspiration (these are all anomaly accounts, but they are very much like reading a book of folklore). These days I tend to go more towards folklore and legends for inspiration than novels. Part of the reason is I can randomly pick a story from something like Pu Songling and immediately have an adventure idea. Also I don't know how it was for others when they were kids but when I was young, we had tons of books that were based on Le Morte d'Arthur, but not the actual Le Morte d'Arthur. I remember having quite a few nice books about king arthur and his knights that were essentially easier to digest versions of Le Morte d'Arthur. So if you liked fantasy and got into D&amp;D, it was pretty hard not to be influenced by it even if you never tried to read Le Morte d'Arthur itself. Also Excalibur was really influential in the gaming community in the 80s and 90s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8900345, member: 85555"] One thing I have found with material like Le Morte d'Arthur is they are often more conducive to inspiration for adventures than modern fantasy novels. I am less familiar with Le More d'Arthur than I would like to be, but my memory of it is very short chapters that each capture something that feels pulled out of folklore and that is a pretty good resource. Whereas a fantasy novel will often tell a longer story that takes more time to get at some RPG inspiration. At least for me. My favorite resource is Strange Tales from the Chinese Studio by Pu Songling. Some of those stories are just a page long, some ten or more pages. But they all each have a strong kernel of inspiration (these are all anomaly accounts, but they are very much like reading a book of folklore). These days I tend to go more towards folklore and legends for inspiration than novels. Part of the reason is I can randomly pick a story from something like Pu Songling and immediately have an adventure idea. Also I don't know how it was for others when they were kids but when I was young, we had tons of books that were based on Le Morte d'Arthur, but not the actual Le Morte d'Arthur. I remember having quite a few nice books about king arthur and his knights that were essentially easier to digest versions of Le Morte d'Arthur. So if you liked fantasy and got into D&D, it was pretty hard not to be influenced by it even if you never tried to read Le Morte d'Arthur itself. Also Excalibur was really influential in the gaming community in the 80s and 90s. [/QUOTE]

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