What non-Palladium reference materials have you used?

[flatline]

Think of this as a spin-off thread of the "what books have you used..." thread.

Back in the day, the single most heavily used non-Palladium reference that we used was the Rand McNally Road Atlas.

--flatline

[dragonfett]

Think of this as a spin-off thread of the "what books have you used..." thread.

Back in the day, the single most heavily used non-Palladium reference that we used was the Rand McNally Road Atlas.

--flatline

YES!!! (Or Google Maps today)

D&D 3.5's Heroes of Battles have superb rules for setting up large scale conflicts that allows your characters to influence by using a flow chart to map out the flow of the battle and each important moment (taking a bridge, holding a choke point, etc.) is where the flow of the battle can shift.

Maps of dungeons and towns and the like are also real good to use.

[taalismn]

World Book Encyclopedia...especially the U.S. state topographical and resource maps.

[The Beast]

Google

Petty tyrants thrive when they have authority backed by vague regulations.

[say652]

Action movies. Some work mdc others have to be run sdc

[Zer0 Kay]

http://www.floodmap.net/
Mekton Zeta Plus to design new machines and weapons or to even allow players to do the same with a price/point limit
AD&D
Movies especially those post apocalyptic ones from the 80's and 90's like Haywire and Screamers
Anime, uh... the scifi and fantasy stuff.
Warhammer 40,000
Mutant Chronicles
Paranoia
Call of Cthulu
White Wolf: WoD
Cyberpunk 2020 especially cyberpsychosis and netrunning
Gamma World
Star Frontiers
Marvel Superheroes
Google Earth
Various random dungeon map generators
Oh and The Last Airbender cartoon that I made a fluid magic system from

[glitterboy2098]

honeslty the list of book i have used for inspiration and reference when writing is probably too long to post here. certainly too long to track down at the moment.

but then i'm basically trained as a historian, and beleive in Doing The Damn Research[sup](TM)[/sup]