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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bucaramanga" data-source="post: 5511142" data-attributes="member: 6673606">I think every DM, experienced or not, has gone through this situation.You really like  a certain awesome fight or chase scene from a certain impossibly cool movie and want to re-create it in your game. Or you just don't have enough time to prepare and decide to just throw in into your game. So you roll up leper ninjas called Immortals, add a sarlacc pit and a several traps where only the penitent man shall pass to your Ominous Castle of Doom and prepare for name-calling, plagiarism accusations and possible lawsuits.But no. Nothing like this happens. No one of your players gets that THIS! IS! GREYHAWK! reference. Nobody comments on the fact that the Evil Overlord's troops include ginormous elephants called mumakil and sapient armored polar bears. Maybe your players've been living under a rock for several years. Or they were so engrossed by the action that they failed to notice that they've seen it somewhere before. Or they were too busy discussing their new iPhone that they didn't pay attention to the game.Anyhow, you smuggled a reference, or even a rip-off, to a movie that your players are likely to have seen and got away with it. So, did you have any experiences like that?Personally, I've had at least two. One of them involved a re-enaction of the bishop ambush scene from the 2004 King Arthur movie (rather rubbish overall, but the scene is awesome). The PCs attacked a carriage carrying a corrupt bishop who was the Big Bad of the campaign, slaughtered the guards, and killed the guy... or, as it turned out, a look-alike who'd been used to distract them from the "real" villain. It was a complete rip-off, but no one recognized it until I told them.The same campaign featured speaking to the ghosts of the heroes of yore via some magical prism-shaped crystals that had to be inserted into a strange crystal machine. A big hello from the 1978 Superman movie that went completely unnoticed.</blockquote>

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