Now this sounds like a potential mini-campaign. I may borrow what you borrowed...
Now this sounds like a potential mini-campaign. I may borrow what you borrowed...
Harin, my very first D&D character[*], started out as a set of stats with no personality doing dungeon quests with other characters of the same ilk. Over the course of a very long campaign, the world expanded over ground and personalites began to develop. Harin's personality I patterned on Blake from Blake's Seven and when I got a new character, I used Avon as the model; even called the character Avon.
I used Miller, the narrator of Brian Callison's Captain Trapp stories, as the ramrod of a 'Dirty Half Dozen' one-shot with a couple of jailed PCs in the band.
I used the plot of Ellis Peters' One corpse too many practically unchanged with the PCs in a race with 'Hu Beringa' to solve the mystery and find the treasure. Hu ended up as the NPC lover of one of the PCs.
My most successful loan was the plot of the first book about Deputy US Marshal Custis "Longarm" Long. I transposed the plot into my fantasy campaign and it was a great success. Years later I used it for a Traveller convention scenario, again with success (though not as heady as the first time).
Hans
[*] One of my three very first D&D characters. Everyone wanted a fighter and a magic-user, so we each got three characters, with the third somewhat more diversified; mine was a thief, others had a priest, a bard, and I forget what else.
I used Miller, the narrator of Brian Callison's Captain Trapp stories, as the ramrod of a 'Dirty Half Dozen' one-shot with a couple of jailed PCs in the band.
I used the plot of Ellis Peters' One corpse too many practically unchanged with the PCs in a race with 'Hu Beringa' to solve the mystery and find the treasure. Hu ended up as the NPC lover of one of the PCs.
My most successful loan was the plot of the first book about Deputy US Marshal Custis "Longarm" Long. I transposed the plot into my fantasy campaign and it was a great success. Years later I used it for a Traveller convention scenario, again with success (though not as heady as the first time).
Hans
Timerover51
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I like the idea of Inigo Montoya, as I do like the Princess Bride movie and book.
I have sort of stolen the crew of Andre Norton's Free Trader "Solar Queen" for the basis of the crew of my Free Trader "Roving Minstrel", with name changes. The main character of the Traveller novel that I am working on is a touch like Hosteen Storm of Beast Master or Troy Horan of Catseye in that he has limited psionic contact with his cat companion, Tuxedo.
I also have to give serious thought to adapting Sir Samuel Baker and his second wife, Florence, as possible NPC/Patrons. The more I read of his books, the more interesting he and his wife are becoming. She was no Victorian shrinking violet, being quite capable of wielding a revolver or 24 bore double barrel rifle, along with being a linguist.
Another character would be Lt.=Col. Percy Fawcett, the Amazon explorer who vanished in 1925. I need to think about him as a Patron in ardent pursuit of the Ancient/Droyne homeworld and all associated artifacts, along with all artifacts of ancient civilizations.
I have sort of stolen the crew of Andre Norton's Free Trader "Solar Queen" for the basis of the crew of my Free Trader "Roving Minstrel", with name changes. The main character of the Traveller novel that I am working on is a touch like Hosteen Storm of Beast Master or Troy Horan of Catseye in that he has limited psionic contact with his cat companion, Tuxedo.
I also have to give serious thought to adapting Sir Samuel Baker and his second wife, Florence, as possible NPC/Patrons. The more I read of his books, the more interesting he and his wife are becoming. She was no Victorian shrinking violet, being quite capable of wielding a revolver or 24 bore double barrel rifle, along with being a linguist.
Another character would be Lt.=Col. Percy Fawcett, the Amazon explorer who vanished in 1925. I need to think about him as a Patron in ardent pursuit of the Ancient/Droyne homeworld and all associated artifacts, along with all artifacts of ancient civilizations.
CosmicGamer
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I had a character which after random chargen made me think of Gibbs from NCIS so I ran with it.
Kaylee from Firefly was the inspiration for one of my wife's characters. She had a knack with machinery and was unaware her intuition was actually psionic ability Machine Symbiosis, Interrogate - from Mongoose Book 4 Psion.
Kaylee from Firefly was the inspiration for one of my wife's characters. She had a knack with machinery and was unaware her intuition was actually psionic ability Machine Symbiosis, Interrogate - from Mongoose Book 4 Psion.
Timerover51
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I will second that thread resurrect, as a very good one to resurrect.
Limburger
If adapting races does count, there are a bunch that I've specifically been denied permission to adapt, and others that I haven't asked about yet - but will, eventually. Most of the denials have been variant humans, such as Sime and Gen from the Sime~Gen universe of Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah, or the various human societies in the Liaden Universe of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, but I've also gotten 'No' from Vernor Vinge for the races in the Zones of Thought universe (A Fire Upon The Deep, A Deepness In The Sky, and The Children Of The Sky). On the list to eventually be asked about are the Jao and Lleix from the 'Third Way'/Jao Empire books by Eric Flint and K.D. Wentworth (The Course of Empire and The Crucible of Empire), Treecats from the Harringtonverse (yes, they're intelligent enough to be potentially usable as PCs or NPCs, not just animals), Dilbians from The Right to Arm Bears, and a few others that I'd have to look up again.
DangerousThing
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Those would be fun to play!
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