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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1551094" data-attributes="member: 16936">Mostly I crib from noir detective fiction, which is excellent for characters and plots.  Hammett's The Maltese Falcon is a personal favorite of mine, and one of the best novels of the 20th century.  I've also swiped things from Hammett's other work, Chandler's Philip Marlowe series, James Ellroy's novels, and on occasion a few bits and pieces from otherwise cheap and unremarkable pulp stories.But once, I tried to work in elements from Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (IMO, his best book by a huge margin) into a Mage game.  For various reasons, that game never got very far.But I've been harboring a secret urge to go all Lot 49 in another game some day.  Oh yes, it will happen.--we await silent tristero's empireryan</blockquote>