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<blockquote data-quote="codo" data-source="post: 9036766" data-attributes="member: 94626">There is a difference between stealing (or &quot;inspired&quot; if you preferer) difference parts from lots of difference sources, and combine them into something new, and stealing lots of different parts from a single source and putting them into a similar story.&nbsp; If nothing else it stops your work from being to predictable.&nbsp;All I know is when 13 year old me first read the original Dragonlance trilogy I actually noticed it was basically just a copy of Tolkien.&nbsp; You know the copying was blatant, because I was not a discerning reader at that age.&nbsp; Every time I saw another similarities between the 2, it really took me out of the book.&nbsp; Particularly when Fizban &quot;sacrifices&quot; himself to save the party in the abandoned dwarven city.There is nothing wrong with being inspired by or even using parts of another work, but you need to combine them in new ways, not just use them to retell the same story.Look at Quinten Tarantino and his films.&nbsp; He often uses shots, or even entire scenes from other movies, but nobody criticizes him, because he combines them in new and interesting ways.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="codo, post: 9036766, member: 94626"] There is a difference between stealing (or "inspired" if you preferer) difference parts from lots of difference sources, and combine them into something new, and stealing lots of different parts from a single source and putting them into a similar story. If nothing else it stops your work from being to predictable. All I know is when 13 year old me first read the original Dragonlance trilogy I actually noticed it was basically just a copy of Tolkien. You know the copying was blatant, because I was not a discerning reader at that age. Every time I saw another similarities between the 2, it really took me out of the book. Particularly when Fizban "sacrifices" himself to save the party in the abandoned dwarven city. There is nothing wrong with being inspired by or even using parts of another work, but you need to combine them in new ways, not just use them to retell the same story. Look at Quinten Tarantino and his films. He often uses shots, or even entire scenes from other movies, but nobody criticizes him, because he combines them in new and interesting ways. [/QUOTE]

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