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<blockquote data-quote="delphonso" data-source="post: 8013884" data-attributes="member: 6892015"><p>I'll try to avoid stuff if I know my players/fellow players are reading/consuming that stuff. So Game of Thrones/aSoIaF get booted from my watching/reading list. I find it hard to not take inspiration from whatever I'm currently consuming.</p><p></p><p>-Dune</p><p>-Helliconia</p><p>Both have helped a lot in imagining and conveying extreme weather and world building.</p><p></p><p>-Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard and other authors in the Pulp age)</p><p>-The Princess of Mars and others (Edgar Rice Burroughs)</p><p>Generally the Pulp Fiction high adventure writers taught me a lot about narrating violence and bodily movement. Useful in DMing or describing character actions in a cool way.</p><p></p><p>Other books recently used for inspiration:</p><p>-Zimiamvian Trilogy & The Worm Ouroborus</p><p>-City in the Sand (an Athas novel)</p><p>-Man and His Symbols, Jung</p><p></p><p>Games:</p><p>Fire Emblem (especially 6,7,&8)</p><p>Prince of Persia</p><p>Dragon's Dogma</p><p>Morrowind or other Elder Scrolls.</p><p></p><p>For different reasons, but all take a pretty classic heroic narrative, and each offer character concepts to expand and invent upon.</p><p></p><p>Not much by way of comics for me lately, but I accidentally made Guts from Berserk when rolling up a Barbarian.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delphonso, post: 8013884, member: 6892015"] I'll try to avoid stuff if I know my players/fellow players are reading/consuming that stuff. So Game of Thrones/aSoIaF get booted from my watching/reading list. I find it hard to not take inspiration from whatever I'm currently consuming. -Dune -Helliconia Both have helped a lot in imagining and conveying extreme weather and world building. -Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard and other authors in the Pulp age) -The Princess of Mars and others (Edgar Rice Burroughs) Generally the Pulp Fiction high adventure writers taught me a lot about narrating violence and bodily movement. Useful in DMing or describing character actions in a cool way. Other books recently used for inspiration: -Zimiamvian Trilogy & The Worm Ouroborus -City in the Sand (an Athas novel) -Man and His Symbols, Jung Games: Fire Emblem (especially 6,7,&8) Prince of Persia Dragon's Dogma Morrowind or other Elder Scrolls. For different reasons, but all take a pretty classic heroic narrative, and each offer character concepts to expand and invent upon. Not much by way of comics for me lately, but I accidentally made Guts from Berserk when rolling up a Barbarian. [/QUOTE]
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