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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acquana" data-source="post: 2467179" data-attributes="member: 1616">Well, well well.  This appears to be my territory.  *cracks knuckles*When I was working on my setting, <a href="http://www.shellcatstudio.com/Route66.html" target="_blank">High Fantasy,</a> I was using just about everything I'd learning about myth up until that point.  A lot like ... I hate to make the comparison, but like Buffy I was having mundane people run into my favorite monsters.  Though honestly, if you want to see where my first real inspriation came from, check out Matt Wagner's Mage (in a complete trade now!  It friggin rocks!).  My favorite theme is magical races and their dealings with normal humans.  Brian Froud, Matt Wagner, to a lesser but still notable degree Neil Gaiman ... It's just uncanny how nearly every culture around the world has had some equivilant to the faerie.  Spirits in North America or most of Africa, trolls in Scandinavia, "hidden ones" in Japan (I don't know the actual word, just the translation), fey all across western Europe ... The list goes on and on. So I like running my games on an Earth setting (kinda sorta d20 Modern but not) and having people run into these things.     Well, really ... High Fantasy is just too much to get into.  I mean, the whole setting is about myth, from fey to urban ledgends.  I love me some myth.</blockquote>