What published settings have significantly influenced your current game.

[der_kluge]

My world pretty much consists of Bluffside (jesus, do you *need* more than that?!), and has influences of Gothos, and of course, the obligatory FR. I imagine everyone at some point has to count FR as an influence.

 

[der_kluge]

NICE poll, btw.

*applauds*

 

[Psion]

My world pretty much consists of Bluffside (jesus, do you *need* more than that?!), and has influences of Gothos, and of course, the obligatory FR. I imagine everyone at some point has to count FR as an influence.

No they don't. FR is largely borrowed and co-opted in the first place.

My world may look a littjr like FR, but outside of a few outright ports over from FR (e.g., I use undermountain IMC), most stuff in my game that you might think came from FR in my game came from old games. For example, I use many of the deities from FR (like Finnish deities and demihuman deities.) But many of those were lifted straight from the old DDG and Greyhawk material, and from folklore.

 

[War Golem]

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Vor, the Maelstrom.

Forgot that one. Never played the game, but some of the setting material and races are great. Some version of both the Pharon and the Growlers will be playing a large role in my campaign in the next year or two (as NPC/Monster types, of course).

Cheers,

-War Golem

 

[Carnifex]

Planescape is a very big influence on my homebrew

 

[bwgwl]

i find that most of my homebrew influences come from books and movies, not other role-playing settings.

the last world i worked on was heavily influenced by the 1001 Arabian Nights and the old Ray Harryhausen Sinbad movies, but, for example, didn't take anything from Al-Qadim.

 

[Nightfall]

Scarred Lands of course, but I still pay homage in small ways to Faerun and occasional Ravenloft. Monster wise I just use Scarred Land ones but I also like to use monsters from other worlds.

 

[Glyfair]

By far the answer for me is Glorantha. Nothing comes quite close to the cultural and mythical richness of the setting. I'm trying very hard to keep that amoudt of mythical depth in my game.

Glyfair of Glamis

 

[Graf]

inneresting

No they don't. FR is largely borrowed and co-opted in the first place.

My world may look a littjr like FR, but outside of a few outright ports over from FR (e.g., I use undermountain IMC), most stuff in my game that you might think came from FR in my game came from old games. For example, I use many of the deities from FR (like Finnish deities and demihuman deities.) But many of those were lifted straight from the old DDG and Greyhawk material, and from folklore.

FR was derivative. Like the Scarred Lands now though I think the setting's strength was always -how- it derived things.
Also If somebody has only gotten the FRCS and just uses that then for them FR -is- the influence. I got my ideas for magic from the old FR novels, not from Jack Vance. Though he's almost certainly the source of the memorize and forget system.

Everyone knows that these polls aren't accurate.
Having said that:
right now after FR, &GH, the next largest section is non-D&D (I wouldn't have expected that) followed by CoC! Not that I'm surprised.... everybody loves horrible unknowable evil these days. Which makes Sandy Peterson even more of a visionary I suppose.

I was more curious about the outliers than anything else. (if someone votes you can say that at least -x- number of people on the boards play with the setting)
If you vote something most people probably haven't heard of (what's harn?) share with the group what or why.

Three people run games significantly influenced by Blackmore, Mahasarpa, Oathbound has 2 people running games (it came out a month ago)....

i'm seeing more votes for Bluffsides than Freeport.... which is weird to me because I hear about Freeport everytime I wander onto the net but i don't even know who publishes bluffsides.

13 people are doing Al-quadim stuff! Beating out Ravenloft, Darksun, Spelljammer and every other one of the "second tier" settings we saw in 2nd ed. (its not a quality comment as a group those settings did more to show the breath and depth of possibilities offered by D&D than anything else).

More people (as of now) are influenced by planescape than the Scarred Lands.

i find that most of my homebrew influences come from books and movies, not other role-playing settings.

I -almost- threw this in. I just read the Athenian Murders and I took a bunch of the street scenes and a few personalities (the little dog is now a familiar of a dwarven sorcerer) and stuck them in my game.
But I was a touch worried that the admins would close the poll because of the length already.
And what does "drawn inspiriation" mean when its applied to a book or a movie?
I don't think anybody's conceptulization of fantasy interaction/combat/staging wasn't affected by the Matrix, Lord of the Rings (the movie) or Star Wars.
Though I'm not a huge tolkeen fan I think a lot of people probably are....
George R.R. Martin's Songs of Fire and Ice Trilogy is probably the basis of my current (for the PCs insainly aggrivating) DMing style. The sort of there-is-no-big-plot-things-(mostly-bad)-just-happen storyline had a big impact on me.
[ok so there is a plot but its convoluted to the point that it never gets neatly cleaned up]
And China Mieville's books Perdido Statin & the Scar (which I just bought) really did a lot for letting me invision a more dystopian fantasy world where classism (and racism and sexism) are tools for storytelling and not just a 3rd rail you try to avoid.

if we were going to do a poll about fiction (or non-fiction) which has influenced people what names would you want to see?

[off to spend the 20 hours in a sardine can with several hundred other people at 20,000 ft. don't worry though.... if something happens there's a little cusion-which-functions-as-a-portable-flotatoin-device under your seat. hate flying.]

 

[Nightfall]

Just remember to come back soon Graf! I want you to get your mits on R&R2 like the rest of us SL fans!