08-10-2010, 05:03 PM
I think the difference between us in that respect is really that my approach is more historically oriented:
I simply do not think of the ZGG stuff when I plot over my Blackmoor notes.
For Thonia, for example, I dug out some old JG modules, my favorite gaming book "Ivid the Undying", and researched RJK's World of Kalibruhn.
In general, whenever I add something to the setting, I look first at my personal favorite gaming books (which is really a very, very small collection of four or five books), and then at really, really old stuff.
The reasons for that are really just that I like the classics more, the same way I like old movies better than most actual Hollywood stuff.
I simply do not think of the ZGG stuff when I plot over my Blackmoor notes.
For Thonia, for example, I dug out some old JG modules, my favorite gaming book "Ivid the Undying", and researched RJK's World of Kalibruhn.
In general, whenever I add something to the setting, I look first at my personal favorite gaming books (which is really a very, very small collection of four or five books), and then at really, really old stuff.
The reasons for that are really just that I like the classics more, the same way I like old movies better than most actual Hollywood stuff.