I found a real folkloric character who is basically 1:1 with my campaign's villain>running a Hunter:The Reckoning campaign>Set in Missouri>google names of native American tribes in Missouri cause i wanna have werewolves. Pick one at random (Otoe)>decide main villain should be an evil hunter manipulating the party to help genocide the entire town>he has an artifact that makes him feral and animalistic>there's a second artifact, a headdress made with human hair, that can be used to stop him>One of the party members, in their backstory, has a brother they've never met. Decide it should be him (to be revealed later)>artifact lets him shapeshift a little bit>google folkloric figure names to find a name for him>find a story by the Otoe tribe from hundreds of years ago>a boy named Wareh'dua>apparently he was a monster hunter>explicitly described as feral and animalistic>keep reading the story>he could be stopped by a headdress made with his hair (this was regularly used to trap him)>he has a brother named Doré who he constantly convinces to reluctantly help with his monster hunting>one of the first monsters they kill is called an Uye, a being responsible for giving life to and the death of which marks the destruction of an entire community>he can also shapeshiftHow the fuck did this native American story steal my exact idea point for point like 400 years ago? I guarantee I've never heard this myth before in my life.
>>98395928>How the fuck did this native American story steal my exact idea point for point like 400 years ago?It's genuinely more likely that picking Otoe as the random injun name manifested the story into your plotline and I don't even believe in that faggot shit.
>>98395928You have been touched by the spirits, anon.Inspiration works in weird ways like that.Decades ago, I wrote a campaign about a road trip across the US, starting in San Francisco, to retrieve an artifact that attracted natural disasters. It was supposedly the source of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.For the end of the campaign, I was looking for a city on the East Coast with a cool vibe, and naturally picked New Orleans.Then Katrina happened.
>>98396033WHO KNOCKED OVER MY CITY??You
If you've lived in the area a while you probably heard it before somewhere ages ago and just forgot. I call it the Ziggy Effect. Like that episode of Seinfled where Elain draws a comic strip for The New Yorker but it turns out she unconsciously stole the joke from a Ziggy comic she read once and then forgot about.
>>98396209IT WAS THE MIRROR OF GOMORRAH ANON, IT WAS HELD BY THE WIFE OF LOT WHEN SHE LOOKED BACK AND WAS TURNED TO SALT.YOU NEED TO FIND IT BEFORE IT STRIKES AGAIN
>>98395928SchizoTake meds
>>98395928>baby's first synchronicityMage is ready for you when you're ready
>>98395928>>98404869This is rare but it does happen. I had a moment myself yesterday, I made a Prosnorkulus joke when the guy who made those animations has been MIA for 12 years, come to find out he made a teaser for more Prosnorkulus not 7 hours before then. When it comes to designing game characters and RPG scenarios, you'll find this sort of thing pop up a lot, though usually not with such a degree of 1:1 similarity. Humans have always been humans and tend to share a big grab bag of ideas they go back to.
>>98395928Honestly you should still use it. No one's going to notice the similarity.
>>98395928>How the fuck did this native American story steal my exact idea point for point like 400 years ago?The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
>>98410428It'll be even a fun little thing for the players to talk about if anyone finds out
>>98408038>>98404869The other day I was talking to a store clerk about a Skaven blood bowl team I was picking up, and mentioned I should get a rat ogre, and he perked up and showed me that the new rat ogre was announced literally hours before that conversation. First time this has happened to me and it felt like I was seeing gaps in the matrix.
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