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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artifact" data-source="post: 6716606" data-attributes="member: 60414">I watch a lot of sci-fi movies and TV shows (and little else <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).  I tend to pick up on trivial things to use as story ideas.For instance, there's a race in Doctor Who, called the ood.  In one episode/story, the ood were viewed as 'willing' for servitude, willing to be ordered around'; the ood couldn't look out for themselves, and without orders, eventually died.  This gave me an idea for how to handle warforged in one of our campaigns:  As captives, who allowed the misconception that they were 'willing' to stand, until they could revolt against their dwarven masters.  Set up quite a backstory of racial hatred in the campaign.= = =In another example:  I was watching an episode of Star Trek Voyager.  There was a species (the kobali) who reanimated corpses as a means to propagate their species.  Needless to say, this caused conflict with the humans.This gave me an idea:  That 'dark devas' (evil devas) in our 4e campaign, might use dead bodies in their process of reincarnation.  It was a detail that never came to the forefront in our games (no evil PCs) but which added some nice texture to the setting.Anyway, that's kinda how my mind works <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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