So, I'm sitting here listening to some random music and this song I haven't heard in forever kicks on, and I'm totally wanting to write a critter based on it...
Here's the lyrics:
Danny Elfman and Oingo-Boingo; Song = Skin wrote:
This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body
Am I getting through to you
If you peel away the armor is something underneath
If you look below for hidden treasure underneath another layer
Are you hiding underneath the skin
CHORUS
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the armor is it too late to begin
Is there anybody hiding if you peel away the skin
Now a spark has passed between us now
A momentary recognition
Something lost and something gained
And something shared that feels strange
Something cold that will not go away
There's a heart as cold as ice
In a vault that's made of stone
Over years the walls got higher
Over years the walls have grown
Is there anybody in there in this self inflicted tomb
If you peel away the layers is there someone in this room
If you peel away the skin, if you peel away the skin
This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body
Am I getting through to you
Anyone else have strange, or unexpected, tales of inspiration?
Well, like most CKs i take inspiration from almost any souce that puts a spark into my mind. RP inspiration for me has come from some music, particulatly BOLT THROWER and various covers of death metal bands.
EDIT: I think the wackiest inspiration for role-playing has come from the spooky basement of the place where I work. Old tunnels, and late 19th century architecture.
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My inspiration comes from movies, television, songs with stories (i.e. the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald), books, dreams, other mods, requests or ideas from players (especially my kids) or other CKs, random rolls on charts, or some inexplicable far corner of my whacky brain, and many times out of pure necessity because I have to run something NOW (tonight will be one of those cases). 8)
You name it. It's all good though sometimes I'm told I need therapy.
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Heh, I agree on the "it comes from nowhere." Sometimes I'll just look around my house and see something, like a stapler, and wham! An idea for some weird thing...
Alot of stuff just comes out of the dark corners of my brain when I need something... But "back in the day", I'll confess that music inspired ALOT of my adventures and campaigns.
The two most notable came from the first (?) album from Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe (former members of YES), "Fist of Fire"... for a 2E campaign Wherein the party quested for an artifact.... and "Birthright", for a 1E Gamma World campaign (using a modified setting and timeline).
Early stuff by Rainbow fueled many adventures as well.
I know this sounds wierd, but I had a "methods and materials of literary crit" class some time ago and the prof was teaching it as a philosophy of language class. We were going through some of the works of Frued, Sousere (sp?), Derrida, Foucalt (?), and a guy named Slavou Zizek (sp?).
Most of the stuff was like wadding through hardening concrete and really hard to get into my head. Though I didn't understand most of Derrida, sometimes while hacking away at his stuff I'd get wierd and vague geometric images in my mind's eye, like huge spirals and helixes... odd.
But the one author I really liked was Zizek and his book "Welcome to the Desert of the Real." I got a few inspirations for villians that sprouted from his descriptions of... I don't know, like moral concepts or situations. I wish I had written the stuff down, if I could have - that stuff put me in a wierd state of mind. I can't really even describe the villian, but I KNOW he would have been sweet.
Nothing strange or unexpected. I just read constantly. That which I read triggers a machine gun barrage of ideas that never seem to let up. Probably why I don't sleep much
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In addition to lifting ideas from books/movies/tv, sometimes I'll be inspired by landscape photography (Cappadocia, foggy coastlines, etc.) or unusual images... I also find that evocative song/album titles or lyrics are often springboards for my imagination-- one example is a pretty weird campaign I ran in college based on characters and events described in the King Crimson song "In the Court of the Crimson King".
For gaming and life to a certain degree, I do indeed take inspiration from movies . . . big time. Been watching and collecting 'em for years. And in particular the fantasy and sci-fi movies that we all know and love, have heroic elements and a warrior/combat atmosphere that have made it into our C&C game.
And books to a lesser degree, only because I didn't really start reading seriously until I was in college. Movies and their impact had been etched in my mind since I was old enough to sit on the couch or a seat in the theater.
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"Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!" ~ Gary Gygax
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth
