Funniest "reference material"

[Asmor]

My friend just ran the first game of a new campaign, and I think it's only like his 2nd or 3rd game ever. It was just a dungeon crawl, which is cool, that's what we signed up for and that's what he likes to run...

However, in an attempt to add some more story to the game beyond "You all wake up in a dark room" (how his other two games both started), he's decided to steal... from D&D Online!

So at one point, he had forgotten the name of one of the NPCs in stormreach who was our patron, and so he went and looked it up... in a D&D Online strategy guide!

I'm not knocking it, but I did find it pretty hilarious.

Bonus: the strategy guide is styled after a 3.5 book, with the same border and basic layout as the PHB.

 

[WD40]

I used maps and icons from a Metal Gear Solid solution/walkthrough for use in a Shadowrun game once....

I've also been known to slide in bits, sometimes not too subtly, from my fave videogames into my tabletops from time to time...

I did the 'Escape From Prison' scene from FFVII in another shadowrun game, and included the Shaugin quest from Baldurs Gate II into a long-running D&D campaign once.

(The latter was doubly epic, because none of my players knew of the game. One of them was so impressed, he asked to borrow my notes and ran the adventure with his own gaming group... All of whom were BGII veterans... I never go to see it, but I expect his face was a little red!)