Books as idea generators

ghost-mountain
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Many of us consider books a good resource for RPG idea generation. I recently picked up this used book that I stumbled on to. It is particularly amazing as potential Ghost Mountain content. Wild West stuff is not in my wheelhouse so for me, this is a gem.

It’s worth looking for if you’re frequently running any Wild West setting. Really, any setting if you just change the names and locations. Each of the short (like 2 page) stories in this book is ripe with potential to springboard from.

Besides novels, does anyone else have recommendations for non-RPG books they’ve used for idea generation?

#2

Ah! Our own appendix-n.

Any Lovecraft or Cthulhu Mythos story collection is ripe for not just ideas, but also insight into how to create setting and tone.

#3

Tabletop games in Kickstarter are really usefull as idea/setting generators.

#4

You’re so right on this. I have a number of adventure games that provide adventure plots, NPCs and loot as ideas that can easily be transferred into an actual RPG format.

In fact, I have actually used ICRPG rules to play through some of these games and it works quite well.