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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5391747" data-attributes="member: 18701">I'm talking about completely 100% using a major component from another source without changing it in any way so it is your own. As I said in my OP, I am not talking about simply using an idea for inspiration. I'm not that crazy to think that we're going to be original in everything we do. There is a big difference between making Boolpidldle, the Gnome with an odd speech pattern, and Yoda, the green Gnome with an odd speech pattern.Same thing with a plotline. If I go on an adventure to find a lost artifact and I encounter various traps, and it is a race against time because the antagonists are looking for the same artifact, that's cool. But if I'm looking for the Lost Ark, and I encounter a giant rolling stone ball trap, and I fall into a pit of snakes, and the antagonists are Nazis, then I'd rather play a different game. That's just being lazy and it doesn't get me excited about the campaign. Maybe that's just me, but I would not be able to take the game very seriously.If the DM told me, "Hey, I want to DM a recreation of Indiana Jones." then I could probably let it slide (although I'd rather not play that). But if the DM didn't say anything and passed some content off as his own (without changing anything to make it somewhat his own), and then I find out it was a ripoff; that just kills the coolness of the campaign for me.  Maybe so, but I've seen players get outraged over much less. So if I'm being overly dramatic about this issue, I'm fine with that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Finding out some scenario that I found interesting was just a ripoff of a Disney cartoon was just a let down to my memory of the game. I was disappointed to find out just how unoriginal the DM actually was being. He couldn't even change the characters name? I'm not 12 years old, I don't want to help you play out a Xena episode. But if your adventure was inspired by a Xena episode, then let's game! That's all I'm saying.</blockquote>

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