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<blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 925826" data-attributes="member: 2182">Hmmm...Back in high school I used to play and DM quite a bit, some of them good, some of them not so good.&nbsp; Once we were really wanting to play a Darksun game.&nbsp; The DM informed us that he hadn't had time to make up an adventure.&nbsp; We pressed him to play anyway and finally he complied.&nbsp; We ended up wandering the wastelands of Athas fighting monsters from the Darksun monstrous compendium in alphabetical order.&nbsp; Needless to say that adventure lasted only about an hour.I'm ashamed to admit it but I actually ran a real stinker in high school.&nbsp; We were playing GURPS cyberpunk and I decided to throw in psionics.&nbsp; This was cool, and original, but soon I started ripping things off Final Fantasy 7 (The main villian was a Sephiroth ripoff, complete with the black trenchcoat and katana), Parasite Eve, and Akira.&nbsp; I got to the point where I was completely railroading everything, and players had no choice.&nbsp; Now using movies and video games for inspiration is one thing, but completely ripping them off (down to actual quotes) is quite another.&nbsp; Plus the railroading got so bad that by the time the campaign ended, half of the original players had dropped.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadow, post: 925826, member: 2182"] Hmmm...Back in high school I used to play and DM quite a bit, some of them good, some of them not so good. Once we were really wanting to play a Darksun game. The DM informed us that he hadn't had time to make up an adventure. We pressed him to play anyway and finally he complied. We ended up wandering the wastelands of Athas fighting monsters from the Darksun monstrous compendium in alphabetical order. Needless to say that adventure lasted only about an hour. I'm ashamed to admit it but I actually ran a real stinker in high school. We were playing GURPS cyberpunk and I decided to throw in psionics. This was cool, and original, but soon I started ripping things off Final Fantasy 7 (The main villian was a Sephiroth ripoff, complete with the black trenchcoat and katana), Parasite Eve, and Akira. I got to the point where I was completely railroading everything, and players had no choice. Now using movies and video games for inspiration is one thing, but completely ripping them off (down to actual quotes) is quite another. Plus the railroading got so bad that by the time the campaign ended, half of the original players had dropped. [/QUOTE]

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