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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9334954" data-attributes="member: 19675">When I started GMing, typically what I did was scan the published RPG settings- getting the “feel”- and just running things my way.  I used the boxed sets etc. as more of an outline and really didn’t pay much attention to the deeper history.I never personally adapted any IP like books, movies, or TV shows straight into a campaign.  Even when I bought RPGs adapted from licensed IP, I more mined them for ideas than ran them straight.I have participated in games that were, though only as a player.  So I’ve been in campaigns licensed or lifted from Glen Cook novels, LotR, Robotech, Anne Rice novels, and others.The closest I ever came to what was asked in the OP was my oft-mentioned Supers 1900 campaign run in HERO 4th in the Space:1889 campaign setting*, which IMHO was my pinnacle as a GM.  I yoinked that pretty much entire, but expanded upon it.To do that, step #1 was simply including more from the sources Space:1889’s designers initially cribbed from, like the works of H.G. Wells & Jules Verne.  But besides that, I included factors drawn from other works of fiction set in approximately the same RW time period- both from my own experiences and the backgrounds my players had used to create their PCs.  So there were elements from The Difference Engine, TV shows like Wild, Wild West, The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Kung Fu, “Elsewhen” & “What If?” comic books, and assorted anime, to name a few.But I went further still…I recycled plot lines and other elements from Michael Moorcock’s Bastable stories, Harry Turtledove’s Colonization novels, James Bond movies, mainline comic books, Alien Nation (movie & TV show), more modern history and more.I wasn’t really hiding anything, either- those who were familiar with my sources often asked if I had been inspired by them.  And I told them truthfully where I had or hadn’t.* dusted off a decade + later to run for another group in a different city using Mutants & Masterminds, with the campaign setting advanced to 1914.</blockquote>

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