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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 1847099" data-attributes="member: 11697">Update is on schedule for this Friday evening or so. Perhaps sooner since I wrapped up my thesis proposal 2nd draft, which is what I should have been solely working on last week instead of this, but alas it snagged me.As for taking ideas from other GM's, I've taken ideas from other places but I've gone my own way with them. After this campaign is over and the storyhour finished I'm going to post a list of material and sources that I used for inspiration in tone and atmosphere and some that gave me some specific ideas as well. I will readily admit to using a writeup on, I want to say the Planescape-L list, that was the original source for the Ash Cities of Gehenna which I went my own direction with starting in the prelude and 1st post for this storyhour here. My own version of it has been written up on the WotC boards as 'The Vale of Frozen Ashes', and at some point I'll post it on the Portals section of Planewalker. It's sufficiently different from the original idea, but the inspiration is there and it deserves its share of credit.In places a few authors get snagged including Clark Ashton Smith, M.R. James, Lovecraft, and Machen. They're heavy influences on my own style of running a game, if I can claim them while being lightyears away from their league in writing ability. Usually I don't snag whole ideas, with one noted exception who hasn't entered the plot yet, and that was more an easter egg and cameo that the players liked, and it never wholly went away. Heh.Glad you're enjoying it, I'm having a ball writing it and sharing it with folks. Thank you!Though at times I feel like a crack dealer... <img src="http://arcanofox.foxpaws.net/shemmyepic.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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