Not only is this totally sweet, but... THAT'S MY NPC!!!

[barsoomcore]

Okay, here's a shot of Monica Bellucci in Brothers Grimm:

Yum Yum Yum

Once you've recovered from Bellucci-ation (Ai Carumba!), I just need to point out that this is totally my NPC Yuek Man Chong. Only Italian. But that is practically taken straight out of my head as to what this character looked like, dressed like, did her hair like.

My wife sent the pic to me with the note, "Remind you of anyone?"

Creepy.

It's fun when stuff from your head appears unexpectedly. I remember when Dinotopia came out and there was some TV spot on it -- I was sitting in a bar with a bunch of friends, saw this appear on the bar TV and stood up, yelling, "Hey! That's my book! That's my book on TV! What the heck is my book doing on TV?"

I'd been working on a novel for, like, three years about a land where dinosaurs and people lived side-by-side, with a vaguely Renaissance sort of feel...

Sigh.

Anybody else have experiences like that?

I'll be checking out Monica again...

 

[Desdichado]

Oddly enough, I had a moment like that when I first looked over your campaign site. Not that it's an exact match, mind you, but there were plenty of moments when I said to myself, "Hey! That's my setting there!"

 

[Hand of Evil]

Was she not the frenchman's girl in Matrix: Rev?

 

[barsoomcore]

Aye, that she was. And pretty much the only reason I'd watch that excrement again. But possibly worth sitting through that excrement just to see her...

 

[Henry]

...I was sitting in a bar with a bunch of friends, saw this appear on the bar TV and stood up, yelling, "Hey! That's my book! That's my book on TV! What the heck is my book doing on TV?"

I'd been working on a novel for, like, three years about a land where dinosaurs and people lived side-by-side, with a vaguely Renaissance sort of feel...

Sigh.

How did you feel when you found out that Dinotopia had been a book series for many years prior?



Never had it happen myself; which means either (A) I'm not imaginative enough, or (B) I'm WAAAAY ahead of my time.

I prefer the latter...

 

[theburningman]

Yeah. I created Drizzt Do'urden.

No, seriously. Many moons ago, there was an issue of Dragon published that had an excellent cover with dwarves on it by Keith Parkinson. One of the articles in that issue was about using drow (then found as a PC race only in Unearthed Arcana) in unusual ways, like what would make a drow fighter different from a human fighter, etc. Rangers were also covered in the article, and I thought it would be excellent to have a drow ranger who was especially effective against his humanoid enemies because they thought he was evil like them (which was one of the article's suggestions). Throw in the dorky sword with the knife that comes out of the handle from Patrick Swayze's movie Steel Dawn (hey, I thought it was cool when I was in high school!), make his father a moon elf who was under his drow mother's enchantment (making him still a full elf, even though he's half-drow), add an even dorkier black streak into his hair back before any of a number of mutant or Image comics characters at the time had a similar streak (hey, I thought it was cool when I was in high school!), and voila! Koryn Ravenwind!

It wasn't long after that that The Crystal Shard was published. Imagine my astonishment when I saw my character parading around in Bob Salvatore's first novel.

I was thinking of this several months ago (before a flood destroyed my 15 years worth of collected Dragons and comic books [sniff] ), and I wanted to assure myself that I wasn't delusional. So I found the old Dragon, and sure enough, it was published several months before The Crystal Shard. I'd love to know if Salvatore got the inspiration from Drizzt from the same place what bore Koryn. Probably not, considering the length of time between the writing of a manuscript and it's actually publishing date.

 

[s/LaSH]

I get that a lot.

- Ever design your own Magic cards? Did that many years ago, was mildly interested to see similar design philosophies in more recent sets revolving around enchantments that turn into creatures.

- Ever visit my ghoul evolution page? About three months after I put that up, I saw Blade II, in which there are some physiological features quite comparable to my illustrations. In fact, I discovered recently, there's some other physiological features on my ghouls that are prominent in certain creatures in Perdido Street Station, which I finished reading the day before yesterday. However, despite the apparent unconscious pseudounoriginality, the overghast ghoul (which I originally called the urghoul) still got published by White Wolf (CCIII), so I'm happy.

- The scifi novel I've been working on for some years now involves a fight scene the hero can't win, and he gets out of it in a rather unusual way. I think it's quite a powerful scene, and it colours his actions for much of the rest of the story. I was proud of it. Then I went to the comic shop to get my Buffy comic for that month, and saw almost exactly the same plot in that one issue. I was somewhat miffed.

I blame zeitgeist-telepathy, personally, and I should really get on publishing more of my thoughts before someone else finishes thinking them...

 

[barsoomcore]

How did you feel when you found out that Dinotopia had been a book series for many years prior?

Oh, this WAS about the book. It was like a news story on the book just as it came out.

 

[billd91]

I blame zeitgeist-telepathy, personally, and I should really get on publishing more of my thoughts before someone else finishes thinking them...

It's all a part of drawing from the same inspirational wells. The various authors/designers out there who happen to be coming up with similar designs and plots to our own are often inspired by the same things we are. Given the number of people out there, it's not surprising that several people may synthesize very similar products of the imagination.

 

[barsoomcore]

It's all a part of drawing from the same inspirational wells. The various authors/designers out there who happen to be coming up with similar designs and plots to our own are often inspired by the same things we are. Given the number of people out there, it's not surprising that several people may synthesize very similar products of the imagination.

As if. It's brain-sucking aliens, dude. They use, like, microwaves to suck your thoughts out of your head, and they use the flourine in the water to control your memories.

I'm not worried, I got my tin-foil hat now. In your face, aliens!