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Originally Posted by Agentorange
Following on from a brief off topic diversion about Karl Edward Wagner in the Q&A thread I thought I'd post this. What sources and influences have contributed towards your gaming style and history ? Could be authors or stories, games, films or legends and myths
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Ok. Lets list some: (a journey to my past 
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literature:
KEW
REH
Lovecraft
M. Moorcock
Gene Wolf
Jack Vance
P. Anderson
J. Brunner
Prince Valiant Comics
movies:
everything from Ridley Scott (except White Squall)
everything from S. Kubrick
Some films from J. Carpenter (eg. NY1999, the Fog, The Assault, The Thing)
the medieval films from I. Bergman (Virgin Spring, 7th Seal, The magician)
2010
Aliens2-3
The Abyss
Ghost in the Shell
Excalibur
The Omega Man
Soylent Green
Terminator 1
Conan 1
The Musketeer trilogy from R. Lester
Chinatown, The Two Jakes
Bad Lieutnant
Apocalypse Now
Dracula (the Coppola version)
Monthy Python
Clash of Titans
Jason and the Argonauts
inspiring legends and myths:
The german Nibelungensaga
some local medieval stories from the country I live in
Edda