Not sure where this topic fits in but I thought it was a good one and am curious about everybodys own input and experience.

 I draw alot of adventure ideas from movies for my campaign group. Some inspirations I have used ( and there are many ) are:

1) Old Western/Cowboy Movies are great source because its easy to rewrite the story line for D&D involving a small group of adventurers ( gunfighters) defending a small town ( village ) against a small army of outlaws ( bandits ) Many of the old Western/Cowboy movies involve a small group of heros on some sort of deadly mission ( quest ).

2) Old Samurai movies - same premise but they are easier to adapt and usually already involve some sort of mythical/magical element.


3) Vampire Movies - I once ran a series of adventures loosely based on the movie the Lost Boys ( Bear with me ) about a small group of adventures that came across a town that was controlled by competing factions of vampire lords and each side was trying to hire/infect the party to act as mercenaries/henchman to destroy the other faction. This was fun because the party had to battle against several variables including: resisting becoming vampires themselves, a cabal of fanatical vampire hunter clerics, their own suspicious party members and of course the vampire lords themselves that controlled every aspect of the town including the militia and town guard.

4) Old Pirate movies, my favourite is Captain Blood.


5) Even war movies are easily converted to D&D adventure ideas because most of them center around a small squad of soldiers ( adventurers) this works great for campaigns that are involved in large scale midievil war. Sent the characters on commando style secret missions deep behind enemy lines ( Dirty Dozen )

These are just some of my experiences to get things started, I am curious as to your own experiences.

4) Old Pirate movies, my favourite is Captain Blood.

Watch Captain Blood, then the first Pirates of the Carribian movie from Disney...

Hmmm...no...they didn't borrow anything did they?

Captain Blood is one of those movies you just have to get for your library.

Also, check out Bob Hope's The Ghost Breakers...excellent with solid story that is easily adapted to AD&D.

Ok. What would be the easiest way to tie together every D&D campaign system ever created(other worlds), include some Planescape & Spelljammer(screw the sphere thing, just use the ships)..(add in whatever else)... and still make it all work?

Stargate SG-1

No more whiny know-it-all players saying "You can't do that, it doesn't exist in this...."..."Bullshit! I can intro firearms because on this world the technology outways magic"...or whatever else I could inject.

Hook lines and plots gallore with this type of system. You can intro aliens as NPCs, Spacejammer ships as starship (with some mods), the different planes of existance could be actual worlds (wizards just thought they travelled to another plane but instead activated the gate through magic, got caught in the wormhole and actually went to another planet!"

Easy way to intro tech into the game but easy to take it away if no supplies are available for support of the tech (or you as the DM could just say its broke! There its gone!)

So many possibilities......

Speaking of the movie " The Road Warrior " its a perfect example of a classic western storyline rewritten for post modern times. And that Car just kicks ass.

This wide-open style is what some people don't like about D20.

My current game is set in a bizarre and highly stylized world.  

I got tired of trying to catch up to Sam and Frodo and went off in a different direction.

I was gonna write a halloween one off based on the film Bubba Hotep for D&D... essentially, a bunch of geriatric heros in a home for retired adventurers have to 1: obtain weaponry and 2: defeat the evil lich who's stealing the experience of the elderly.

I just found the idea of old adventurers funny.. it'd be like the Horde in terry pratchett's discworld... hahaha.

Each of them were going to have severe dissadvantages because damnit, they're human and they're OLD. The mage would be senile and thus forget spells randomly (i'm mean), the warrior would have a bad back and suffer dex and movement problems... and of course, the bard would have gone deaf... because it's amusing having the bard going "WHUT!?" all the time.

As for planescape tie ins, i've thrown people from pretty much any setting into planescape because damnit, I LOVE PLANESCAPE. We even had a group of Ebarron characters at one point (yes yes, I know... shouldn't be possible.. but damnit, i'm gm and thus GOD). that was hilarious... I seldom run things that seriously and they spent most of their time trying to investigate this foul and evil organisation called P.L.O.T who left silver hammers (mmm plot hammers... ) all over the place.

but it was so amusing! In fact.. I wanna watch it again now