rpgs and books

[LegalKimchi]

so, when I learned how to read, my father dmed a game of dnd for my brothers and friends. we were in the land of ko-ro-ba ruled by the emperor. his royal wizard was called the mithrander. he had the dragonriders of pern that patrolled the lands lead by the warmaster tarl cabot.

so my father loved to plagurize for our games. in what worlds based on novels have you played.

[Thomas]

I played in a game at a convention that was based on a portion of a Michael Moorcock story. I did not know it at the time. It was a place where the ground was blood red and a white river ran through it.

My character dipped his hand in the white river to take a drink and was severely burned, scarred. The DM says "Hah! The river is acid!"

Years later, quite by chance, I read the story upon which this game was based...where in a twist of strange fate the protagonist dips his hand in the white river to take a drink and it is beautiful, pure water.

I immediately dug up my character sheet. This man had seen many adventures, but one thing remained--a horribly acid-scarred hand. I found a good pencil with a fresh eraser and repaired the damage that had been done.

[LegalKimchi]

my teens were a sequence of going up to my dad and saying "Really? Mithrander?"

[Thomas]

Well perchance he needed to take a deeper dip into the imagination pool. Conversely I have had players want to coming into my game with Chewbacca and Wolverine...no not just a wookie...THE Chewbacca.

Let me introduce you to Kronk the barbarian...hint, Wookies let HIM win.

[Joe Informatico]

I ran a successful Mage: the Ascension game based on Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death and two prog-metal concept albums: Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime and Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory. Yeah, I was a pretentious git in university. But I still like to use a literary work as a thematic basis for my RPG campaigns.

When it comes to more specific plagiarism, it's probably whatever I've been reading, watching, or playing recently. My last D&D game heavily pilfered ideas from the Dragon Age video games, for example.

[LegalKimchi]

who isnt a pretentious git in college/university?