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<blockquote data-quote="David Howery" data-source="post: 3136921" data-attributes="member: 17239">I haven't been in a group for years, but when I was an active DM, I stole ideas from everywhere I could.&nbsp; In my short Spelljammer campaign, I made up stats for both the Aliens and Predator critters (the players absolutely hated those facehugger things).&nbsp; I ran a Battlesystem scenario based on the famous battle at Rorke's Drift.&nbsp; I based scenarios on the creepy enclosed city and warring tribes in the Conan story Red Nails, sent the PCs to the dinosaur world of Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy, did a prehistoric adventure loosely based on &quot;Fire and Ice&quot;, set up a weird frozen temple full of monsters in stasis (inspired by Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger), and ran several wild west style adventures based on old movies (gold camps, range wars, and 'Indians' who were actually savage orcs on boars).&nbsp; A couple of my 'steals' made it into print.&nbsp; I based one adventure on that man/elephant godlike being from the Conan story &quot;Tower of the Elephant&quot;, combined with the old myth of the Elephants Graveyard.&nbsp; Another one was based on the title villains of &quot;Tarzan and the Leopard Men&quot;... both these jungle-based adventures made it into Dungeon...Basically, I think every DM has to steal ideas from somewhere, even it its just a neat villain or setting... it's hard to be absolutely original on a weekly basis....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="David Howery, post: 3136921, member: 17239"] I haven't been in a group for years, but when I was an active DM, I stole ideas from everywhere I could. In my short Spelljammer campaign, I made up stats for both the Aliens and Predator critters (the players absolutely hated those facehugger things). I ran a Battlesystem scenario based on the famous battle at Rorke's Drift. I based scenarios on the creepy enclosed city and warring tribes in the Conan story Red Nails, sent the PCs to the dinosaur world of Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy, did a prehistoric adventure loosely based on "Fire and Ice", set up a weird frozen temple full of monsters in stasis (inspired by Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger), and ran several wild west style adventures based on old movies (gold camps, range wars, and 'Indians' who were actually savage orcs on boars). A couple of my 'steals' made it into print. I based one adventure on that man/elephant godlike being from the Conan story "Tower of the Elephant", combined with the old myth of the Elephants Graveyard. Another one was based on the title villains of "Tarzan and the Leopard Men"... both these jungle-based adventures made it into Dungeon... Basically, I think every DM has to steal ideas from somewhere, even it its just a neat villain or setting... it's hard to be absolutely original on a weekly basis.... [/QUOTE]

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