What have you stolen lately for your game?

[dargoth3]

I had the equilivant of a Githyanki "Predator" that was to hunt the group in Xen'drik.

I actually created a D&D version of the Predator and I may finally get to use him in my next FR campaign (Their evil outsider from Malars realm)

 

[Nyaricus]

To be a little bit tasteless, in the current Savage Tide game, there's a scene where the PCs find a body that's been killed by a critter near the sea. I'm changing the body to make it into that of a man wearing khaki shorts, a khaki vest, with a stingray barb in his chest. Crikey!

[kyle voice]You BASTARD![/kyle voice]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

For the haunted abbey adventure my good guy campaign is going through, I'm liberally ripping off from the Marvel Comics' version of the Conan story The God in the Bowl, Stephen King/Peter Straub's Black House and a fair amount of the Blair Witch Project. Oh, and the scared guy in every horror movie who's sure everyone's going to die, and who straddles the line between nerve-wracking and annoying ... and then dies horribly.

 

[demiurge1138]

When I ran a haunted house adventure, I combined liberal qualities of the Haunting (noises in the dark), Amityville Horror ("GET OUT! GET OUT!"), Disneyland's Haunted Mansion (a phantom ballroom, an undead MC), and my own madness (animated skeletons sewn into stuffed animals).

Oh, and in tribute of a certain comic strip, a long term rakshasa villain was named Locke.

Demiurge out.

 

[BadMojo]

Not exactly recent, but I ripped of the characters Morrolon and Aliera from the Vlad Taltos books lock, stock, and barrel.

Nice! Those books are just chock full of great stuff to stea... inspire a GM. I always thought Sethra Lavode would be a fun character to use in a D&D game. Just not fun to even begin to assign game stats to her or any of the Great Weapons.

 

[Timeboxer]

This is perhaps more overt than you're going for, but we're currently playing in a D20 Modern campaign in which the party consists of tabloid reporters, and, as you might imagine, we have quite a few pop culture influences. Our past few adventures have involved:

A smoking-based cult from the Weekly World News
Advanced Bigfoot Technology (ABT)
A romantic liaison between Carmen Sandiego and the Sasquatch
A nerdy necromancer (and his undead mother) upset that the Pirates of the Caribbean movie ripped off his family history

My own character is a former Slayer who's trying desperately to lead a normal life but just keeps running into dark and/or supernatural forces. So.

 

[Silver Moon]

I often steal from "The Blues Brothers". The police chase that ended in the shopping mall works just as well with horses and wagons and a large marketplace.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

I steal a lot.

My special Halloween edition of my gaming sessions is going to involve a one-shot Savage Worlds adventure called "Zombpocalypse: Day One," which is liberally stealing from just about every zombie-plague movie ever, particularly the George Romero movies.

"Nobody knows exactly what happened. All we know is that on October 27, 2006, the dead rose and the world fell."

I rented & watched Feast this weekend, so I may have to steal something from that for some future game. Maybe for my "Thanksgiving Edition." :-D

 

[Kormydigar]

In my younger days, I had two NPC monks based off of Bert and Ernie.

Thats really funny because I have 2 PC's in my current campaign that are gnome mystic theurges and they are Bert and Ernie.

 

[sjmiller]

Not exactly recent, but I ripped of the characters Morrolon and Aliera from the Vlad Taltos books lock, stock, and barrel.

I always find it amusing when I see people mention Steve Brust's books. I have known him and his daughter Aliera (and the other kids as well) for so long that I sometimes forget that he's written these books and is "famous" to others. Sorry, just had to share that.

As for me, I don't tend to borrow from books and movies, but I do borrow ideas and things from other games or other settings. For example, this year I am adding racial levels and evolved levels from the Arcana Evolved setting. Great stuff, and allows some fun roleplaying to add the elements into the game.