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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krail Stromquism" data-source="post: 1045882" data-attributes="member: 2400">This is a tough question.HOw concious are we of ideas and imagery that slip into our games?Are we choosing to show our party how a giant yells before entering combat and model it off how Harryhousen did his stop frame animations or is it just slipping in from when we watched his movies as kids?We are constantly building visual libraries that help us not only interact with our gaming group but society in general.Every idea get started by some inspiration, does that mean the idea ceases to be "original"?Its kinda  one of those things where if you never admit to where it came from people will have no idea where it came from.But I guess I've had the opposite happen where a player said Oh you got that from such and such book, and I was like I never heard of it.Take for instance the COMICBOOK and not the movie, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, all the characters are preexisting and even the situations they incounter are based off other authors work, but the end product is fresh and engaging and thereby original. If your well read of early fantasy scifi , Wells, Burroughs, Carrol and a gillion others, and you havent read these Comics go out and get them.and never see the movie...ever.</blockquote>