Re: [Ogf-l] Non-d20 Inspiration

[Benjamin Durbin]

I reckon the entire industry owes its existence to Tolkien; I doubt many people could deny being influenced by his work (including Brooks' Shannara).   I don't refer to anything while I'm actually writing (other than the Core rulebooks, and I really should avoid even that and move on to the SRD). But I have over 20 great years of gaming behind me, every little bit of source material is an inspiration. This is as it should be.   As far as just plain writing style goes, my "design voice," I'd say I was more inspired by Gygax's 1e DMG than anything! I devoured that book when I was a youngster. Still have it, all the pages still open automatically to the old familiar places.     benjamin   ----- Original Message ----- From: Steven "Conan" Trustrum To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:35 AM Subject: [Ogf-l] Non-d20 Inspiration Maryann Siembieda recently said this on the company's message boards during a thread where claims were made that WotC stole ideas, including core elements to their system, from Palladium Books: "Actually I can support it as I've been told by nameless people who use to work for Hasbro that they have copies of all of our products sitting on a shelf in their production offices and that they are referred to often." Now, out of a sense of professional curiosity, how many people here look to other rpg systems or settings, or fiction for inspiration when it comes to their writing (no worries, guys and gals, this isn't a witch hunt for plagiarism, I'm merely curious ;D   ). I'd start the ball rolling and say some of the things I've written have been largely inspired by Starship Troopers, the Shannara series, Torg, and various DnD 1e adventures (Expedition to the Barrier Peaks especially). Steven "Conan" Trustrum   Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Homepage: http://www.trustrum.com "The only real people are the people that never existed"     -- Oscar Wilde _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l