Plagiarism is your friend! How I ripped off a movie for an awesome campaign!
I wanted to share a really awesome campaign thats taken off with my players so far. Heres the cliffnotes, bonus points if you can tell the movie before I share!
In Night City there is a gang leader putting his name out there more than any choom ever before him. In an unprecedented move, Xerxes, leader of the Ozys, has called a conclave of Nine delegates from each boostergang in NC. He declares that if every gang united, they could scrape NC back from the corrupt politicians, the Cops, and especially the corpos. There are around 20,000 cops in NC, 30,000 Corperate security. Compare that to the united gangs, over 200k NC residents are ready to fight. United they could take this city for themselves and rule over the corpos...
That is until Xerxes is Flatlined at his own speech. A shot rings out, and Xerxes falls to the ground. My PC's barely have time to react before they spot [Rival]. He screams at the top of his lungs "THEM! THEY SHOT XERXES!" 1000's of Gang members look towards our chooms, with the bitterness of a lost future on their minds.
Now the Edgerunners must make their way across Night City as public enemy numbers 1-4. Death awaits them around every street block. It is likely they will never know the peace of their Watson apartments again.
Fellow GMs! There is no shame in plagiarizing your work when you need inspo for a good campaign! I was having a really tough time writing for my campaign and breaking out of the cycle of Gig>Night Market>Gig until i realized how well the plot of The Warriors fit in cyberpunk!
That being said, if you are likely to recieve major accolades or money for your work, then plagiarism is not right for you. But for home games? Im sure authors would love to hear that you were inspired to live in their world!