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Title: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Cranstonvm on <05-05-13/1449:49>
I am curious.

Mine come from pictures I see, TV, and sometimes dreams.
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: CanRay on <05-05-13/1508:38>
Places you never, ever want to see.
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Mournclaw on <05-05-13/1547:02>
From all-nighters powered by my grandmom's mead and anime.
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: mtfeeney = Baron on <05-05-13/1834:39>
Your grandmother watches anime?  I'm truly impressed.  Or does she draw it?  Own?
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Aryeonos on <05-05-13/1924:19>
Healthy doses of Ghost in the Shell, Mirrors Edge, Blacklight Retribution, and Samurai Jack.
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Black on <05-05-13/2248:26>
Supernatural, 24, Burn Notice, MI: Ghost Protocols, Nikita (1st season only), and most recently, Indiania Jones, with the corps playing the roles traditionally given to the Nazis.  oh, and a bit of 24 days later.

And that was just last run...
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Mournclaw on <05-06-13/0716:21>
Your grandmother watches anime?  I'm truly impressed.  Or does she draw it?  Own?
Uh, no, I meant... Are you just trolling me now? :D
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: JoeNapalm on <05-06-13/1452:21>

William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge, Philip K. Dick...

Wait, let's save some time:

Click Here! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyberpunk_works)


-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist

Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Aryeonos on <05-06-13/1808:28>
Supernatural, 24, Burn Notice, MI: Ghost Protocols, Nikita (1st season only), and most recently, Indiania Jones, with the corps playing the roles traditionally given to the Nazis.  oh, and a bit of 24 days later.

And that was just last run...

Wait, did they make a tellevision series of La Femme Nakita?
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: JoeNapalm on <05-06-13/1822:50>
Supernatural, 24, Burn Notice, MI: Ghost Protocols, Nikita (1st season only), and most recently, Indiania Jones, with the corps playing the roles traditionally given to the Nazis.  oh, and a bit of 24 days later.

And that was just last run...

Wait, did they make a tellevision series of La Femme Nakita?

A couple of them.

One with Peta Wilson, one with Maggie Q.

-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Aryeonos on <05-06-13/1830:53>
Were they any good?
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Mirikon on <05-07-13/0315:47>
I enjoyed the one with Peta Wilson.
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Aryeonos on <05-07-13/0533:13>
Huh, I wonder if it's on netflix. Her not being a drugged out, murdering, pharmacy robber is a weird shift though.
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: GiraffeShaman on <05-08-13/1204:17>
Cop, crime, and lawyer TV shows. The grittier the better.  The Wire and the Shield were my all time  favorites. I try to find sci fi novels with lots of planetside stuff in them too. Just finished the 3rd Takeshi Kovacs novel, which was excellent. (Sadly the last one according to the author)
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: ChromeZephyr on <05-09-13/1937:24>
Just finished the 3rd Takeshi Kovacs novel, which was excellent. (Sadly the last one according to the author)

Loved the Kovacs stuff, but they seemed to get less awesome each book.  Still enjoyable, mind you, but Altered Carbon was immensely better than the other two.  Thirteen definitely had me thinking SR.
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: Reaver on <05-21-13/1427:20>
Most of my ideas come from real life.

I read the world news, economic and science journals.

I find that with a little imagination, today's events make great, fun, scarey, f**ked up shadowruns to amuse and terrify my players
Title: Re: Where do your gaming ideas come from?
Post by: CanRay on <05-21-13/1533:46>
...today's events make great, fun, scarey, f**ked up shadowruns to amuse and terrify my players
Truth is stranger than fiction.

It's where the folks who did Leverage got their ideas.  But they had to tone things down to make them believable!  (They also confessed they're Shadowrun Fans and that "Leverage Consulting & Associates" is just a Shadowrun team that made it big and does Hooding runs.).