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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3331555" data-attributes="member: 8447"><p>Well, as a person with a degree in Medieval Studies and a general amateur historian, I'd have to say a heck of a lot of nonfiction has influenced my games. All my books on theology, history, literature, art, and music provide me with ideas that constantly percolate through my head.</p><p></p><p>500 books on the Arthurian legends, both retellings (ranging from <em>Le Morte D'Arthur</em> to a King Arthur/Planet of the Apes crossover comicbook) and interpretations (philosophical, historical, mythological) in one place tends to be a good adventure seed generator. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>There have been several times when I have taken a passage out of the Durant <em>Story of Civilization</em> series as the kernel for an adventure or even a whole campaign. </p><p></p><p>Works of art in museums sometimes inspire ideas as well. Maybe a group of characters in a painting, a parcitularly interesting looking weapon, or an amazing gemstone needs to make an appearance in the game.</p><p></p><p>And I have a great love of (true) Gothic literature -- Mrs Radcliffe, Walpole, "Monk" Lewis and all the rest provide all sorts of good, creepy situations. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I have never limited myself to fantasy writing. As a matter of fact, since I like so few fantasy authors, per se, I tend to work outside the box that way. <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" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 3331555, member: 8447"] Well, as a person with a degree in Medieval Studies and a general amateur historian, I'd have to say a heck of a lot of nonfiction has influenced my games. All my books on theology, history, literature, art, and music provide me with ideas that constantly percolate through my head. 500 books on the Arthurian legends, both retellings (ranging from [I]Le Morte D'Arthur[/I] to a King Arthur/Planet of the Apes crossover comicbook) and interpretations (philosophical, historical, mythological) in one place tends to be a good adventure seed generator. ;) There have been several times when I have taken a passage out of the Durant [I]Story of Civilization[/I] series as the kernel for an adventure or even a whole campaign. Works of art in museums sometimes inspire ideas as well. Maybe a group of characters in a painting, a parcitularly interesting looking weapon, or an amazing gemstone needs to make an appearance in the game. And I have a great love of (true) Gothic literature -- Mrs Radcliffe, Walpole, "Monk" Lewis and all the rest provide all sorts of good, creepy situations. :) I have never limited myself to fantasy writing. As a matter of fact, since I like so few fantasy authors, per se, I tend to work outside the box that way. :D [/QUOTE]
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