Where do you borrow ideas from for your campaign?

[Segev]

Sometimes, I get ideas from media I consume, in the form of concepts and plots I can twist into different approaches.

I probably draw a lot from TVtropes, honestly, because playing with tropes can be fun.

I also tend to draw inspiration for specific game systems and settings from the materials on those settings, themselves. The Exalted game I'm running is mostly of this form. That, plus efforts to mesh the Backgrounds of my PCs into the setting and figure out what connects to which, where, how, and why.

[Braininthejar2]

I have a GM who gets her plot ideas from Harlequin novels.

[Honest Tiefling]

I have a GM who gets her plot ideas from Harlequin novels.

You'd think the party would get bored at all of the time travelling vikings that joined the military.

[Sredni Vashtar]

History, Tolkien, and other people's games mostly for me.

I have said multiple times that each episode synopsis for DuckTales would make for a good premise for a D&D game, but alas, I've never tried it.

[Hawksteel]

All over.

For a pulp campaign I used the stories from the Tintin comics. For another I took stories from hellboy and the bprd.

For one supers campaign I used the james bond modules from victory games. At other times Ive borrowed major storylines from Marvel, DC and Image comics.

[Mastikator]

I usually try to extrapolate from other campaigns. If I am lazy then I will burrow, if I am not then I will extrapolate.

[Segev]

I have a GM who gets her plot ideas from Harlequin novels.

You'd think the party would get bored at all of the time travelling vikings that joined the military.

I'm more concerned that there are whole novels dedicated to Harley and that these are inspiration for campaigns. They must be real mind-screws!

[RedMage125]

Worth a watch?

One of those (maybe literal) CGI abominations was the reason why I couldn't sleep for one night.

Spoiler

Show

And why did the main character suddenly have paladin powers after everything he's done?!

The CGI was an effect of the low budget they were working with. The movie was worth watching, and I stand by that. It's not "go buy the Blu-Ray" good, but it's worth renting, or borrowing from a friend.

And he still had paladin powers because this was based off 4e, not 3e.

[JAL_1138]

I like to steal borrow maps and premade encounters from published modules from AD&D and 5e, and Adventurers' League modules quite liberally, and sometimes the initial setup, but don't adhere too closely to the plot. I'll often pull from several different ones and kitbash, refluff, and rearrange them into something that bears very little resemblance to the sources.

[Piedmon_Sama]

On purpose? Nothing

Subconsciously? Everything

Ja. Everything I pay attention to, from a landscape photograph to a book on medieval economics to TV shows I watch leaves a kind of psychic resonance that will out in whatever I create in ways gross or subtle.