10-12-2019, 06:22 AM | #11 | |
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Re: adopting settings from books/movies etc
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I prefer inspiration to adaptation to avoid the know-it-all type player who knows more than I do about the setting, but primarily to avoid having to absorb the thousand Star Trek books, comics, shows (etc.), just because I want to run something like Star Trek for a little while. I don't like homework with my fun. |
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10-12-2019, 11:55 AM | #12 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: adopting settings from books/movies etc
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There's also the advantage that one or two of these are fairly obscure. I wouldn't call Atlas Shrugged obscure, but it's not widely read by gamers. But beyond that, with the better known series, such as Lord of the Rings and Discworld and the Buffyverse, I had no hesitation in saying that the source material was (in both these cases) the novels, and nothing in any secondary source such as movies, TV series, or games had any claim to canonical status. And my players had no problem going along with that. If they need to think of my setting as an alternate universe, they're welcome to, but my basic view is that what's in, for example, the LotR movies or the Buffy graphic novels is the alternate universe. . . .
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10-12-2019, 04:25 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: New Zealand.
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Re: adopting settings from books/movies etc
I used the game of thrones setting for 3 different campaigns. I tried to keep to the cannon of the novels as much as possible, after all why waste all the reading my players had done. But I did shift the dates back a century* so I could still use the world while having some creative freedom.
*technically 2 centuries back, then 1 century back, then the last campaign was set one generation later or 75 years before the books.
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10-13-2019, 02:52 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Re: adopting settings from books/movies etc
I did a Stargate campaign where the open was the PCs being the dig that found the gate in 1928 and the first arc was them realizing that a German dig had found another artifact (the dialer) with the same symbols in 1906 and finding a way to get the German museum to give it to them.
I did a Batman Continues campaign where batman first appeared in 1939 and the PC are the third generation in the 1980s. Lots of picking and choosing of continuity for that. So lots of background but changed enough to keep it from being the original. |
10-13-2019, 09:39 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The Kingdom of Insignificance
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Re: adopting settings from books/movies etc
On a total tangent, I'm sure Birmo would be stoked to know that you're basing a TTRPG on a setting of his.
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