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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 206566" data-attributes="member: 463">I haven't played PC RPGs (except Diablo and a freeware game called Ancient Domains of Mystery which is tres cool) or read the more recent fantasy authors - getting very conservative in my old age (29!), so they can't be an influence - BTW Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant & Mirror of her Dreams/Man Rides Through series are an influence I missed menioning, for a grim flavour in epic settings.I'm a big Buffy fan and will watch Xena/Herc if I catch them (though I can't stand the really silly eps) but I have trouble imaging what a D&D game influenced by those shows would look like.  Buffy's moral ambiguity/complex moral choices is a familiar theme in my game, but I've been running the campaign since '86 and that was there from the start.  Xena/Herc give me a bit of a nauseous feeling if I imagine them creeping into my game.  If anything, sf shows have had more influence - I based a deity-level time-travel scenario on the STTNG ep 'Yesterday's Enterprise', Thrin (Upper_Krust) had to travel back 13000 years to prevent his enemies changing the past and wiping him from existence - and I like Andromeda's theme of trying to rebuild civilisation from the ruins of a dark age.Who uses Xena/Herc as campaign influence?  What do your campaigns look like?  What about Buffy?</blockquote>