I find the belgarath to be extremely useful for this, the way they do characters left a great impact on me. I used about five or six different Silks inspired characters in more or less major roles. What are your prefered books or mangas to steal characters for your rpgs? Or monsters/ideas for plots.
Old westerns are also good for the later, with very little changes you can do fun one shots.
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Just go to Comic Books + and pick and read something with interesting cover or title.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1507
I realized the other day that Belgarath the Sorcerer is a Shaggy Dog Story.
The Thorgal comics are a big source of inspiration for me (both for playing and running).
>David Eddings
>Thorgal
Quality /tg/ hours right here. Excellent taste.
If you're interested: there's a Thorgal TRPG in the works. You can download a quickstart for free on DTRPG.
Shit, really? Unlikely I'll ever play it (my group is mongs) but I'll check it out, thanks!
I love old eurocomics for getting inspiration. The mercenary be sagrelles inspired a lot more than it should my games.
Seriously, all the sorta of misadventures of a trouble PC in a book form.
Jack Vance is such an unapreciated writer, the Dragon Masters is some of my prefered mini lectures, and his planet of adventures if chokefull of cool stuff.
>Jack Vance is such an unapreciated writer
You can't expect modern d&d enjoyers to read, but in the past, he was a legend.
I know a few.
>Dead Koontz's Dragon's Tears: great villain for a COC game.
>Theodore Judson's Fitzpatricks War: scientists trapping humanity in a never-ending series of experiments was a fantastic twist.
>Fraser's Flashman: the loveable cowardly rogue.
>Warren Fahy's Fragment: those arthropod monsters are fascinating.
>Dan Simmon's Hyperion: the Shrike will always stand out as a villain in my book.
>Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: the Judge. Classic villain.
>Burrough's in general: the beast master, the King of the Jungle, is a horrendously underused archetype in fiction.
>R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing: I struggled to include this one, but Imperator Xerius and his shitty family are absolutely classic characters.
>Prince of Nothing
This series could have been a lot better without gay rape, cuckolding and other fetishes. I tend to have a hight tolerance for that, but every few chapters surprise buttsex.
>Fitzpatrick's War
I liked that one but the Timmermen made no sense. Having evil techno-sorcerers ruling the world in secret is a metal as frick concept but there's no way the Fitzpatrick's would tolerate a group that openly controlled the world's remaining satellite weapons that could influence or even outright control global weather. They would've gotten their asses purged or seen the Chinese and Yukons unite against them so that shit would've been kept secret. But the idea of these scientists locking humanity in a never-ending social experiment is a fantastic concept like a darker Foundation. The Foundation would've pushed for a great uniter to create a one world government, these guys prefer to keep the post-apocalyptic status quo in order to maintain their grip on power 'for our own good.'
Good book but man, the Timmermen needed to be re-examined by the author. A darker Foundation viewed from the perspective of it's enemies is a hell of a story idea.
It wasn't sexual, but that doesn't make it better. They beat their kids brutally and locked them in a dog cage in their basement for days at a time, straight up Stephen King shit. They should've been placed on a list and watched but the justice system failed again.
Werent they foster parents too? Predators in a system ripe for abuse.
Not gonna lie, Polgara (the Sorceress) featured pretty heavily in my early sex fantasies back in the day.
Polgara was my Og waifu and I never betrayed her.
The Mongoliad
The Lords of Dûs
The Sundered Realm/War of Powers
Giant at World's End
Thraxas
The Particolored Unicorn
The Fallible Fiend
Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa, in particular, I've heard it said that every archetype of the Japanese personality may be found within this book.
Shakespeare. Everybody cribs from Shakespeare. In Blakes 7, Avon is Hamlet, Vila is the jester from The Twelfth Night, and I think Travis 1 was Richard the... not sure, but I'm sure it was a Richard.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Earthsea
Pern
Elric
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
>Everything Eddings has ever written
Glad I'm not the only one who feels like this. I loved the shit out of the Belgariad (when I was twelve) and then moved on to the Elenia books, only to put them down after a couple of pages because it all just seemed like a remix of the last story.
I found redemption of althalus to deviate slightly from the beaten path.
Slightly. Probably helps it was a standalone book.
The knife that cuts out portals was cool.
unironically, the bible.
David Eddings is some trash fricking fantasy. Throw it in the ocean so it can join the garbage vortex.
Comics and manga
Bone, by Jeff Smith
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, mostly by Dan Mishkin and Jan Duursema
Prince Valiant, by Hal Foster
The Courageous Princess, by Rod Espinosa
Berserk, by Kentaro Miura
Olympos, by Aki
Vinland Saga, by Makoto Yukimura
Lone Wolf and Cub, by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai
Groo the Wanderer, by Sergio Aragonés
Ghita of Alizarr, by Frank Thorne
Cerebus, by Dave Sim
Vagabond, by Takehiko Inoue
Den, by Richard Corben
Online:
Elfquest
https://elfquest.com/reading-room/
Level Up!
https://www.lvlupxp.com/
Shin Kage
https://shinkage.com/
Melpomene
http://melpomene.clanofthecats.com/comic/melpomene/
Bloodlark
https://archive.org/details/Bloodlark
Sword Interval
https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/sword-interval/list?title_no=486
>Eddings
Shame he and his wife did time for child abuse and was a registered offender.
Christ, another Marion Zimmer Bradley?
I didn't know that. How many fantasy writers are sex pests?
All
Black Company
The Nightside series by Simon R. Green and the various spin offs in the same universe. Pure pulp junk food as far as writing goes but so many neat ideas.