I’ll throw these in:

• Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• George Orwell – 1984
• Bernard Cornwell – The Arthur Books (The Warlord Chronicles)

see … other people posting names makes me remember.

Definitely remember reading some of Fritz Leiber’s stories.

and Tolkien ‘ripped off’ old Norse mythology … 😉

I’d argue it was more ‘inspired by’. The original Rogue Trader was a mix of whatever Sci Fi or Comic books had inspired the writers.

The challenge is deciding when something is a ‘rip off’ and when it is a parody/inspiration.
There are very few original ideas, so if you dig deep enough you’re…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

Last night the Mantic team had a roughly one hour stream addressing some of the community’s questions.  I came out of it with mixed feelings, but with some hope.

First of all, I was not surprised to see that Mantic owned their misuse of the basing convention confusion, with words like ‘legacy and obsolete’ basing and they reassured…[Read more]

I’ll add the

– Fritz Leiber Fafrhd and the Gray Mouser series

– Michael Moorcock’s Elric series

@pagan8th yeah … heck, the background for 40k/AoS itself is sooo unapproachable. It’s like someone used the letters from scrabble to create names and places.

It’s bad enough that I need to read them in a foreign language, but dealing with those things really puts me off. It’s simply bad writing at that point IMHO.

It’s why one can appreciate…[Read more]

Speaking of ripping off someone else’s IP’s: The very first Citadel miniatures I ever came across were multipart metal medievals, very obviously inspired by Monty Python movies. This would have been in the late 1970s or very early 80s, in a full-page ad in some magazine. I don’t remember if it was White Dwarf – before it became an in-house only…[Read more]

The book and media lists in the old White Wolf rpg books were amazing. There’s a few artists that I wouldn’t have known about without them.

Rogue Trader also had that feel of exploring various sci fi themes in those early days. Sooo much room for your own ideas, but maybe too much of that ? These days it’s the opposite and it feels like there is…[Read more]

there’s definitely a cultural issue here where some countries appear to thrive on scamming everyone just because they can.

And it sucks.(period)

There’s so much hate and evil in the world that I definitely don’t want to deal with that kind of attitude in a hobby environment.

I wish there were viable stores in my area that actually sold more…[Read more]

I’d say that there is a cultural issue in the mix that may be the crux of the matter. ” Tofu-dreg project ” or ” tofu buildings ” (Chinese: 豆腐渣工程) in construction and the idea of, essentially, selling polished turds. The baked in cultural norm of Caveat Emptor and praise of “shrewd salesmanship” over stupid consumer is dialed up to 11.

Prai…[Read more]

New video of the Wayland Game Center and I can’t stop seeing Ben like this