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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9302652" data-attributes="member: 18">Not at all weird. There's loads of fantasy I read that had zero input on how I ran D&amp;D, even I thought it was cool, because for me it just didn't mesh with D&amp;D. I mean, like Warhammer Fantasy for example - despite getting into it at around the same time as D&amp;D, I never made D&amp;D more like that or really transported ideas from it - if anything I might have taken a couple of ideas from Warhammer 40K into D&amp;D, but not Fantasy.Oh even better example and relevant here - Fighting Fantasy the choose-your-own-adventure books, Advanced Fighting Fantasy the RPG, and Lone Wolf the choose-your-own-adventure books. I read some Fighting Fantasy - including the Riddling Reaver, which is a quasi-RPG, before D&amp;D, but it had very little impact on how I saw D&amp;D and I don't think anything really carried over from it. Later, after playing D&amp;D, I got the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and add-on books, and the monster book from that - Out of the Pit - absolutely influenced some monsters I put in D&amp;D, because it was a lot more vivid than the original ring-binder Monstrous Compendium tended to be. And Lone Wolf, absolutely significantly influenced how I&nbsp; saw and ran D&amp;D, and even how I played D&amp;D, and what characters I played - it also made me positively pre-disposed towards psionics, because the titular Lone Wolf can use Kai/Magna-Kai powers, which are psionic-style (there's also a separate magic system). A lot of early campaign and bad guy ideas I had came out of Lone Wolf, and fortress designs and so on were inspired by it too. But not Fighting Fantasy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9302652, member: 18"] Not at all weird. There's loads of fantasy I read that had zero input on how I ran D&D, even I thought it was cool, because for me it just didn't mesh with D&D. I mean, like [I]Warhammer Fantasy[/I] for example - despite getting into it at around the same time as D&D, I never made D&D more like that or really transported ideas from it - if anything I might have taken a couple of ideas from [I]Warhammer 40K[/I] into D&D, but not Fantasy. Oh even better example and relevant here - [I]Fighting Fantasy[/I] the choose-your-own-adventure books, [I]Advanced Fighting Fantasy[/I] the RPG, and [I]Lone Wolf[/I] the choose-your-own-adventure books. I read some Fighting Fantasy - including the Riddling Reaver, which is a quasi-RPG, before D&D, but it had very little impact on how I saw D&D and I don't think anything really carried over from it. Later, after playing D&D, I got the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and add-on books, and the monster book from that - [I]Out of the Pit[/I] - absolutely influenced some monsters I put in D&D, because it was a lot more vivid than the original ring-binder Monstrous Compendium tended to be. And Lone Wolf, absolutely significantly influenced how I saw and ran D&D, and even how I played D&D, and what characters I played - it also made me positively pre-disposed towards psionics, because the titular Lone Wolf can use Kai/Magna-Kai powers, which are psionic-style (there's also a separate magic system). A lot of early campaign and bad guy ideas I had came out of [I]Lone Wolf[/I], and fortress designs and so on were inspired by it too. But not [I]Fighting Fantasy[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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