I dropped a Norn into my Dont Rest Your Head campaign. I was in desperation mode since one of my players had basically forced me to invent their origin wholesale and for the sake of padding out their introduction I had the character stumble across a baby Norn clutching a flashlight which they needed. He was immediately christened Clingy (since he was clinging to the flashlight) and turned out to be something of a hit.
I even bothered to make him gradually more intelligible over time. I wonder if anyone noticed when he started repeating his name as "Clingy" instead of "Kwingy."
I like to have plenty of shout outs, such as giving the nickname "Pixie Pie" to a pixie played by a brony. If my current character were to ever kick the bucket, I'm planning on making a mage that'll be pretty much Doctor Strange in a D&D setting.
My DM once lifted an entire setting and a quest from a pretty obscure fantasy series
, without even bothering to change the names. It didn't work out very well. When we got to the capital city, more or less the following conversation happened:
- DM: So, you've entered the city of Sanctaphrax*. What do you do now?
- Me: We visit the professors of Light and Darkness, and ask them whether they want us to collect the stormphrax now, or prefer to wait until the disaster that will cause the chains to break hits.
- DM: ....I hate you so much right now.
Needless to say, we took a small break so that the DM could rewrite his plot a little.
edited 12th May '12 3:48:12 PM by Kayeka
Now, I will always give credit to the original source, and always state it's a crossover, say like in my Liberty City game, it's not a Wo D game straight-up, it's a crossover of Vampire and Grand Theft Auto
Sort of, my friends and I would sometimes add things from different table top games and I swear it never, ever ended in my favor. I was sticking to the setting I could never dream up anything better than who they added. If I was adding someone they'd always find some rule to handicap me, if we were both adding characters theirs would always end up better suited.
Unless we used action figures or lego blocks, where the rules are Calvin Ball, then I could "win".
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackWhile it wouldn't be inaccurate to call my game a mashup of The Elder Scrolls and HP Lovecraft with the Serial Numbers Filed Off, that's more a function of how the world and plot ended up coming together than any kind of conscious decision on my part.
All the freaking time; I steal like a magpie. Notable thefts include:
- The city of Carcosa
- Fafhrd's sword Graywand
- The spell Tiltowait, from Wizardry
- Pyrotex gloves from Fullmetal Alchemist
- Hellraiser's Lemarchand Box
- The spell Crimson Pyre, from Ragnarok
- Spikards, from The Amber series
And the list goes on. To date, I've only been caught once; when I gave an NPC a verbal tic like Billy Bob Thorton in Slingblade. Generally, if it's not an internet meme or an homage to Minecraft, I can expect my players to miss the Easter Egg.
edited 12th May '12 11:48:25 PM by SuperHeroineAddict
Another TL:DR post.One of my friend's homebrew world was nothing but this. He lifted cities wholesale either from Exalted or another steampunk French RPG which I forgot the name of. He divided wizards in five schools straight from Magic The Gathering, including colors and all. And the Big Bad was apparently from a video game, though we never make it that far. Fantasy Kitchen Sink at it's best (or worst).
As for myself, I once lifted a complete story arc, with characters, from a video game, for a player who has never played it, and pushed it into a very classical Dungeons And Dragons 3.5. The game in question being Final Fantasy 7, and the characters being Sephiroth and Jenova, I was very lucky he never caught this blatant rip-off!
I also have plans for the Doctor to appear later in a completely unrelated universe. Since this universe is mostly a parody one, it should make for a nice one-shot story, and the Doctor can travel anywhere in time, space and alternate universe, this is not so much of a stretch. I think.
edited 13th May '12 6:57:35 AM by Talden
I'm pretty sure shit like this is how most G Ms get started.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~I designed a recent NPC as a Lighter and Softer version of Inquisitor Mozgus (although, if you're at all familiar with Berserk, you know that isn't saying a whole lot) before I decided that I needed to make some changes to make sure he wasn't too blatant. Then I looked Mozgus up on this wiki and realized that I'd actually made my NPC even closer to him. So that backfired. On the plus side, he has zero impact on the world at large (he's a preacher in the ass end of nowhere) and now my players really want to kill this this guy.
I take inspiration from works, but do my best to not just copypasta stuff in. That and I like to combine characters. For instance, in my Star Wars RP, there is a character who is essentially Bang Shishigami, SSB!Captain Falcon, and Ryu lumped together but on the bad guy's side.
He is very hammy and likes punching things.
"Evii is right though" -Saturn "I didn't know you were a bitch Evii." -Lior ValMy GM loves to grab elements from other stuff to stick into his campaigns. In our Star Wars game, for example, he took a clan practice for his faction of Mandalorians where leaders bid on the size of their forces to see who gets a mission, with the glory being awarded to the one who bids lowest.

Has anyone else here incorporated characters, places, and equipment from other works such as games, movies, anime, and TV in their RPG campaigns?
I'm writing up a crossover campaign between Old World of Darkness and Grand Theft Auto III, with elements of Resident Evil for good measures. Basically, it's Liberty City (GTA III Rendition, not the reboot of Liberty City from GTA IV) redone as a a Vampire: The Masquerade setting.
"Liberty City by Night" as I call it. Anyone else ever put things from other sources in their RPG's?