http://www.treasuretables.org/2006/06/video-games-as-gming-inspiration Game mastering advice, ideas & resources • Dedicated to helping GMs Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.treasuretables.org/2006/06/video-games-as-gming-inspiration/comment-page-1#comment-2432 John Arcadian Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:03:06 +0000 http://www.treasuretables.org/?p=366#comment-2432 I get lots of inspiration from video games. Pick up an old issue of nintendo power, look at the images or the claymation and just think of what it is I want to bring out of that into my latest game. If I'm running a dungeon crawl I've been known to use exact levels from some games just for the hell of it. I try to adapt whatever I'm doing from a video game into something that is approrpiate for the game that I'm running. It would be an interesting idea to try to turn a video game like metroid into a straight gaming session. You get into all sorts of copyright issues if you do that professionally though. I get lots of inspiration from video games. Pick up an old issue of nintendo power, look at the images or the claymation and just think of what it is I want to bring out of that into my latest game. If I’m running a dungeon crawl I’ve been known to use exact levels from some games just for the hell of it. I try to adapt whatever I’m doing from a video game into something that is approrpiate for the game that I’m running. It would be an interesting idea to try to turn a video game like metroid into a straight gaming session. You get into all sorts of copyright issues if you do that professionally though.

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