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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 1900664" data-attributes="member: 6779">Was it Mark Twain who said, "Originality is skillfully hiding your source material?"When I was in college and had tons of free time, almost everything was either from scratch or at least an unrecognizable amalgamation of other works (including the rules I used -- I wrote new game systems of varying quality on a regular basis). I had a vibrant homebrew world that had a very Lankhmarish city as the capitol of a rather Aquilonian empire, on the edge of a sea that would look very familiar to both Sinbad and Captain Blood. (Sorcery and flintlocks can be an explosive combination!) I had pages of notes on personalities, deities, relationships between nations, and I was always ready to tinker and revise.Now, with work all day and cartooning all night, I find my gaming time compressed to almost a singularity, and as such I need things I can run right off the shelf. The world is Greyhawk, 3 out of 5 scenarios I run come from Dungeon magazine, and the other two have sections lifted whole cloth from other sources. It turns out I'm having almost as much fun and it's considerably less work; the one thing I miss is telling myself that it's prep work for that great sword-and-sorcery novel I'm going to write any time now.   -The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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