How derivative is your setting?
>>96652010Well the system has specialties (Subclasses if you need a comparison) based on:- John Wick- Doom 2016- Skyrim- Ultraman- An entire class based on Kamen Rider- Senki Zesshou Symphogear- Devil May Cry (Specifically Vergil's DMC5 gameplay)- Payday 2- An entire class that's just the TF2 Engineer- Demoman TF2As well as Species options that are based on:- Pikmin- Alien X (Ben 10, visually)- Imp Midna (Goblin Subspecies)- A shitload of Monsterfolk races that draw from Monsume and MGE toned down for general use- Feline beastfolk that are heavily geared around luchadore culture (El Tigre)- Orcs that despite being meant to basically be creations of olde times wizard hitler I have been told are similar in origin to 40k Orks even if visually and culturally they're not the same.Yeah, pretty derivative in a lot of its component parts, but the actual setting is stuff I came up with on my own, and any resemblance to existing settings is either an intentional reference or homage rather than a copy or pure coincidence.
Even as a stupid kid starving for modern fantasy, I knew Eragon was too familiar lol
>>96652412You think?*Ardwen - Arwen*Isenstar - Isengard*Mithrim - Mithrim or mithril*Angrenost - Angrenost*Morgothal - Morgoth*Elessari - Elessar*Furnost - Fornost*Hadarac - Harad*Melian - Melian*Vanilor - Valinor*Eridor - Eriador*Imiladris - Imladris*Undin - Fundin/Udun*Gil'ead - Gil'Galad*Ceranthor - Caranthir*Isidar - Isildir*Oromis - Orome*Eragon - Aragorn
>>96652010Yes in that mostly everything is inspired by several other things, but nothing is straight up ripped from some other work of fiction or reality. Everything is a sort of amalgam of other things sometimes with a spin, more or less.
>>96652065>Everything you just postedJesus christ
>>96652523>but nothing is straight up ripped from some other work of fiction or realityDifferent from Eragon then.
>>96652420Or, like, the entire magic system being a page one rip from Tales of Earthsea, just with all the actual mysticism and wonder stripped out of it
>>96652010I avoid medieval stasis and standard fantasy races (demi-humans) for that very purpose
>>96652567Exactly. It's so frustrating though because I always hear Eragon fanboys gushing over the magic system. Is Earthsea obscure or something? Or maybe people who like Eragon just haven't read any other fantasy at all which is why they like Eragon to begin with.
>>96652613>Or maybe people who like Eragon just haven't read any other fantasy at all which is why they like Eragon to begin with.it was probably their first high fantasy book. It was one of mine, but I stopped before book 3 because I had read the better source material by that point.
>>96652613People like Eragon because it got them into fantasy as kids.And yeah, no one really gives a fuck about Le Guin. They should, though.
>>96652613Earthsea is obscure, but having read it a decade ago I couldn't tell you a single thing about the plot or setting, it didn't stick in my mind.This was a decade ago though.
I essentially made a homebrew based on Dragon's Dogma, along with a mostly reworked combat and class system all for the sake of keeping vocations.Pretty fun so far, the only group of four I'm DMing for is enjoying it a lot.
I read through the whole Eragon series in elementary school and I don't remember anything except for:>A pile of dead bodies with babies on it, which I thought was the most fucked up thing ever in 3rd grade>Some sort of magic Chernobyl with evil snails>The mentor character is revealed to not have known how doors worked when he was the protagonist's age.Meanwhile I perfectly remember Heinlein's The Rolling Stones, which I read at the same time.Still, I enjoyed Eragon more than Harry Potter, even if I don't remember it. Make of that what you will.
Very.>mlp>RHGs>minecraft>warrior cats>scratch.mit.edu>hearts of iron 4
>>96652862I just remember being mad that the boy became not only an Elf but a simp for some elf chick instead of ending up with the dragon.
>>96652792Reading Earthsea is like reading a dream. And just like a dream, you stop reading and you seem to always forget what happened even though it was so mesmerizing. I've read it several times in order to retain the gist of the series and understand it better.
>thetting
>>96652420In defence of 16 year old paulini, eragon is one letter off dragon (thats his whole deal), haderack could just as easily be from dune, and gi'lead is one sylable off just being lead (iirc a dwarven mining town). A lot of the names do match phonetically, but they often arent used for equivalent things in the stories
>>96653557>In defence of 16 year old pauliniHe was 18 when he started writing the book and 19 when he finished.
>>96652890It's very much written like an elder sitting you down and telling you a tale. Hearing it read aloud with an old man narrator really crystallizes the experience. Also it's got the serene/sedate quality of a Ghibli movie, which all the more a shame they botched their attempt at adapting it. Should've just done a straight adaptation of the first book instead of mashing together like 3 of them.
>>96652613I don't know if I've ever met anyone who continued liking Eragon. Everyone I've met who's read it at best thinks of it as something they liked when they were a kid. Most never read past the 2nd book. I have a hard time imagining someone who walked away from the 4th book still thinking the series was worthwhile.
>>96654237Genuinely the moment people start reading other fantasy literature Eragon is rapidly exposed as being soulless. I don't think Eragon is a big issue in the genre for that reason. Now, The Name of the Wind (inoffensive on its own, fine as budget Harry Potter I guess) and its ill-begotten sequel (unbelievable trash) are utterly fucked and unfortunately have an entire audience of zoomers that quote it like the second coming.>muh wrath of a patient man
>>96654286It's worse than soulless it's plagiarized. I had seen Star Wars and read LotR and A Wizard of Earthsea by the time I read Eragon and I immediately saw it for what it was. My family and friends all seemed oblivious to the plagiarism which made me feel like I was going crazy. It's so fucking transparent. How could anyone miss it?
>>96654298>How could anyone miss it?One of the hardest lessons to learn is that 99% of people don't even have the mental capacity to think about a piece of media as they consume it. To some extent critical analysis is a skill that has to be developed, yes, but not everyone has the potential to do learn it. There are so, so many people who simply watch a movie or read a book and have zero internal dialogue about it, zero analysis, zero insight into what they just absorbed into their brains. It simply goes into their eyeholes and earholes and rebounds off of nothing, fading without echo into an infinite void within their skulls. That or they just haven't read LotR or watched Star Wars. Earthsea is a bit less famous of a plagiarism source and Eragon's not the only book series to rip off its magic system wholesale while pretending to be original.
>>96652535>WAHHH YOU LIKE THINGS I DON'TIt's a contemporary setting. Also, I can't stand traditional fantasy. It's so fucking boring.
>>96652567>Or, like, the entire magic system being a page one rip from Tales of Earthsea, just with all the actual mysticism and wonder stripped out of itPaolini is too much of a reddit atheist for mysticism. His Mary Sue elves are all atheists too after all and they smugly mock the silly beliefs of dwarves to their faces in their own temples. This despite the author establishing the existence of spirits in his setting.
>>96654360Oh and Poalini's elves are furfags too because he's a furfag. Some of his elves use magic to become animal hybrids and one of them is a blue-furred wolf-elf covered in blue fur who emits a musk that makes women horny and no I am not making any of that up.
>>96652870Underrated post. Like so cringe its good. I know you never will, but your should broadcast your games.Also you need a Homestuck Trolls nation for peak 2010s cringe.
>>96654322NTA but bruh maybe tone it down a bit.
>>96652010I dunno ask the worldbuilding general.
>>96655252I will not, generals are for redditors who want everything to have its own own subreddit. Well that's ot how achan board works, redditor.
>>96655275What is reddit?
>>96652010>How derivative is your setting?I run 3 games currently >The Elderly Scrolls: Morrowind Extremely derivative >Historical sandbox set in Viking age Britain Extremely derivative >Vampire/werewolf/demon hunters set in a generic American metropolis in 2012Extremely derivative I'm a hack, it seems
>>96655275Generals were on this site before Reddit even existed.
>>96652010We are literally playing in a crossover between gacha games. It doesn't get more derivative than that.>setting?pic related>system?The one and only GURPS Infinite Worlds
>>96654298because 99% of people don't give a shit about plagiarism if the work has legs and Eragon did have legs. Most people here probably never finished it, but it got a lot better.
>>96656353All I vaguely remember was Eragon being some uber-elf that went around trying to collect dragon gems to no-sell the bad guy's anti-magic field and then Ghost-Rider-guilted him into becoming a nuke.
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>>96652010You first, OP
