As far as creativity goes I am unsure. I am a Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dungeons and have to come up with elaborate plots and fun combat encounters, and so forth; but nothing I come up with is original. I simply "change" something that was pre-existing, or sometimes use it directly, especially if it's obscure.
For example: I stole the character voice directly from a video game noone in the party had played for the first Dwarf NPC (while Roleplaying, I do voices.) The abandoned mines in the first and second sessions were stolen from Shining the Holy Ark (because of three players dropping out, there wasn't the large pit that everyone falls into at the end.)
Also, a lot of the time I'll read a book (which I read a lot of) and, because my friends rarely read the books I do, they'd never guess I stole a plot device or say an Island Kingdom (current campaign, lol.)
It simply comes off as original/creative.
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