Aeolius
Adventurer
All joking aside, I have been using War-Gods of the Deep and The City In the Sea upon which the movie was based, as inspirations for my take on The Sinking Isle.
What campy sources do you use as gaming inspiration?
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amerigoV
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This is a key post. Us Grognards are all stuck in Tolkien* and its hanger-ons. On your list of the things I recognized, WoW is the closest to the traditional D&D game (dwarves, orcs, kill stuff for their loot - yep, its a match) other than some Lovecraftian influece (aberrations). This is key to understanding how RPGs will evolve.
* Because of him, EVERY fantasy book has to talk about food and have a frickin' song/poetry in them. Gah!
Dragonbait
Explorer
I made the post in a hurry. Yes, WoW and D&Disms are there, and thus Tolkienisms are there. I can appreciate what the literary world brings to the table. I was listing things that I used as inspiration didn't think for normal for D&D (based on definition 2a of Camp) and I discovered that they had more to do with my games than the classics did. My players don't complain, so it works out.
Shemeska
Adventurer
I seriously try to avoid camp in my campaigns.
However the one time I did, it was to ridicule the Union Sentinels which had just been published in the 3.x ELH. I had of them show up in a public gladiatorial tournament that one of the PCs was holding, and I modeled them almost entirely on a combination of Randy 'Macho Man' Savage and Hulk Hogan from the WWF golden age from my childhood in the 80s. He was eaten by a great wyrm rust dragon one round in.
However the one time I did, it was to ridicule the Union Sentinels which had just been published in the 3.x ELH. I had of them show up in a public gladiatorial tournament that one of the PCs was holding, and I modeled them almost entirely on a combination of Randy 'Macho Man' Savage and Hulk Hogan from the WWF golden age from my childhood in the 80s. He was eaten by a great wyrm rust dragon one round in.
Are you talking about when Louise Simonson and Brett Blevins took over following Claremont's initial run? I don't recall Claremont's initial run being campy.
Simonon's run I hated. I thought she ruined the series (which I stopped reading shortly after she took over).
I did try giving the series a try after she left, but still did not care for it and have had no interest in anything New Mutants since other than Claremont's original run.
Theo R Cwithin
I cast "Baconstorm!"
gah! ninja'dwow... no one has mentioned The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension yet?
Flatus Maximus
First Post
My next character will likely be a charismatic barbarian or druid, based on Captain Caveman. Yes, he'll have three girlfriends....
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Xena: Warrior Princess yet. My whole setting is loosely based on the "Xenaverse", including the chaos and the interfering and shallow gods! 
Along with many of the usual camp suspects already mentioned (e.g. Princess Bride, Monty Python, etc.) I'll throw in Star Wars. Psyonics have always reminded me a bit of Jedi mind abilities, for one thing. And, due to the way things lined up at the time, I was able to legitimately pull off calling a 3-adventure series "Coldwood Menace", "Attack of the Bones", and "Revenge of the Gith" in my last campaign.
I also draw on Tolkein etc. but that's in the non-camp camp.
Lanefan
Along with many of the usual camp suspects already mentioned (e.g. Princess Bride, Monty Python, etc.) I'll throw in Star Wars. Psyonics have always reminded me a bit of Jedi mind abilities, for one thing. And, due to the way things lined up at the time, I was able to legitimately pull off calling a 3-adventure series "Coldwood Menace", "Attack of the Bones", and "Revenge of the Gith" in my last campaign.
I also draw on Tolkein etc. but that's in the non-camp camp.
Lanefan
