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I ad lib a lot, in fact that is bout all I do. However, I cheat all the time as well. the easiest way to cheat is to lift a plot and drop it into the game. There are some plots that just work and you can tweak and cycle a thousand times. Hollywood has been doing this for years, Warm Bodies is Romeo and Juliet with zombies, Apocalypse Now whilst it claims its Conrad's Heart of Darkness is really The Wizard of Oz...



Anyway the most common ones I tend to use are



Yojimbo (aka Fist full of dollars, aka Last man Standing) - stranger(s) come to a town and find two waring gangs wrecking the place. How do they rid the town of the scourge and make some money?



Seven Samurai (aka Battle Beyond the Stars, Magnificent Seven, etc) - village is being threatened by a tribe/gang can the party save the village?



Wizard of Oz (too many to mention but I quite like Thelma and Louise and of course the Wizard of Oz is really just The Odyessy and so is the Lord of the Rings I mean its even got munchkins) - a mismatched group of travelers need to reach a distant location but the route is plagued by monsters and trapped and their enemy watches sending their creatures against them.



So what are your favourite recycled architropes?

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