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-Gary Gygax's birthday would be a holiday.
-ALL disputes would be settled with the roll of a d20.
-Sports mascots would be things from the monster manual (Pittsburgh Steel Dragons, Seattle Dire Seahawks)
-Instead of a driver's license or national ID, people would carry around a minature of themselves, along with a stat card.
-Reality TV would consist of some poor schmucks trying to navigate their way through a dungeon...with REAL traps.
-Any fantasy novel translated to the silver screen would become a 10-20 hour movie that faithfully accounted for every word, scene, character, and storyline.
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- Gygax's birthday would be a holiday.
- All sports mascots would be something from the monster manual (the Pittsburgh Steel Dragons, the Texas Dire Longhorns).
- There would be one reality TV show, where contestants had to traverse an actual dungeon with REAL traps.
- All fantasy and sci-fi novels, when translated to the silver screen, would be 10-20 hour movies that faithfully accounted for every word, scene, and character.
Instead of a drivers license or national ID everyone would carry a mintature of themselves, complete with stat card.
-Gary Gygax's birthday would be a holiday.
-ALL disputes would be settled with the roll of a d20.
-Sports mascots would be things from the monster manual (Pittsburgh Steel Dragons, Seattle Dire Seahawks)
-Instead of a driver's license or national ID, people would carry around a minature of themselves, along with a stat card.
-Reality TV would consist of some poor schmucks trying to navigate their way through a dungeon...with REAL traps.
-Any fantasy novel translated to the silver screen would become a 10-20 hour movie that faithfully accounted for every word, scene, character, and storyline.
-All government buildings would be redesigned to look more fantastic. Some rooms would only be accessible via secret doors.
-Currency would return to being tangible coinage based on precious metal and gems. National debt would be a thing of the past. You either have the money or you don't.-Gaming theory would be part of the school national curiculam.
If gamers ruled th world:
we'd have masterwork paperclips,
+1 cars,
"Cure Light" Beer,
a comprehensible map of Tokyo's subway,
bar fights would always end with dismembered body parts,
you wouldn't have meetings, you'd have encounters,
putting 75 cents in the coffee machine would provoke an attack of opportunity,
baseball games would include lions,
you could buy a chainmail at the GAP,
role-playing would become an olympic sport!
Ultradan
- Political candidates would accuse each other of meta-gaming during debtates.
- Racial politics would be about race, not ethnicity.
- Military contracts would be based on the number of magic swords to be forged, but each sword would still cost as much as a Stealth bomber.
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-You could stop a going-nowhere-fast staff meeting after three or four minutes by saying "Okay, that's enough flavor text".
-National Beverage: Diet Mt. Dew; National Food: Pizza; National Bird: Wyvern (although Benjaman Franklin really wanted the Stirge).
-Important embassies to the Underdark would be set up on/in Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns.
-My truck would come with a sword-rack.
-I could put "Most Sagatious" as an honorific on my business cards.
-Nike, Timberland, Carolina, and Red Wing would all offer competing steel-toed hiking boots in fashionable knee-high, cuffed fantasy styles.
-Internet trolls really would be...
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- Gygax's birthday would be a holiday.
- All sports mascots would be something from the monster manual (the Pittsburgh Steel Dragons, the Texas Dire Longhorns).
- There would be one reality TV show, where contestants had to traverse an actual dungeon with REAL traps.
- All fantasy and sci-fi novels, when translated to the silver screen, would be 10-20 hour movies that faithfully accounted for every word, scene, and character.
Instead of a drivers license or national ID everyone would carry a mintature of themselves, complete with stat card.
- Political discords would be settled via large-scale miniature battles, and no one would get really hurt.
- DMs would get free drinks everywhere ;)
- There would be a Disney&Dungeons World in every country.
- The Tomb of Horrors would be built in reality, so that LARP-gamers could challenges themselves.
- GenCon would be once a month, as well here in Germany.
- Dungeon and Dragon Magazines would be daily magazines.
- A world-wide effort would be started to realize Holo-decks, so that every Campaign-World would be ready to get travelled... YEAH!!!
- Erik Mona would be World-President!
... more to come ...
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- Gygax's birthday would be a holiday.
- All sports mascots would be something from the monster manual (the Pittsburgh Steel Dragons, the Texas Dire Longhorns).
- There would be one reality TV show, where contestants had to traverse an actual dungeon with REAL traps.
- All fantasy and sci-fi novels, when translated to the silver screen, would be 10-20 hour movies that faithfully accounted for every word, scene, and character.
Instead of a drivers license or national ID everyone would carry a mintature of themselves, complete with stat card.
- Political discords would be settled via large-scale miniature battles, and no one would get really hurt.
- DMs would get free drinks everywhere ;)
- There would be a Disney&Dungeons World in every country.
- The Tomb of Horrors would be built in reality, so that LARP-gamers could challenges themselves.
- GenCon would be once a month, as well here in Germany.
- Dungeon and Dragon Magazines would be daily magazines.
- A world-wide effort would be started to realize Holo-decks, so that every Campaign-World would be ready to get travelled... YEAH!!!
- Erik Mona would be World-President!
... more to come ...
If gamers ruled th world:
baseball games would include lions,
They might as well they sure as hell haven't been able to play football for 40+ years.
Holloween costumes would be more interesting.
You would go to church when you were sick. And if you had a brain tumor you would go see a cardinal. "Clear!" (raise dead). Unfortunately healthcare costs would be the same.
You would be wary about turning your back on your more skilled colleagues.
There would be semi-annual migations of goths and World of Darkness-style LARPers to those places that don't see the sun for 6 months out of a year.
Every Iron Chef would feature ingrediants like cookie dough, chips, Beer, Mountain Dew, and Cheetos.
Chainmail bikinis and cloaks would come into fashion.
Black would be this year's black.
Everyone would be required to carry about 30lbs of bulky equipment and survival gear including, but not limited to: 50 feet of rope, spare clothes, climbing gear, lock picks, a 10-foot pole, a dagger, waterskin, and enough dry food for a week.
Disneyland would be fun.
All buildings would be laid out in five foot increments.
Waiting rooms would have online-capable Xboxes, Game Cubes, and PS2s.
SUVs and minivans would be a thing of the past as horses and giant armed robots become the norm.
MST3k would still be on the air.
There would have been flying cars in 2000.
Lovecraft, Tolkien, Asimov, and Bradbury become mandatory reading in school.
Kids could take Prestige Class prep classes in school.
There would be black and white level religious, racial, social and even game intolorance. A select few rich and powerful would reign like kings over a faceless mass of commoners. Oh, well I guess we rule the world already.
GGG
Every problem or conflict would be solved in six second increments, and no one will wonder why
Chainmail bikinis and cloaks would come into fashion.
Would we all be built like Pamela Anderson or Arnold Schwarzenegger (as Conan)?
:)
All buildings would be laid out in five foot increments.
But there'd be no bathrooms :o
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- Every problem you had in life could be solved by a skill check, a roll of the dice, or by killing something.
-wealthy people would build elaborate tombs (complete with traps) and be buried with all their wealth in the form of jewelry, precious metals, and gemstones. After a generation or two, people would be allowed to enter these tombs and try to make off with all the 'treasure'.
-Singers/actors/etc would be forced to travel the country all of the time, entertaining people just so they could earn a single meal or find some place to sleep for the night.
-breaking the rules of hospitality can either bring a death sentence, or a curse from mythical gods.
-people could legally live in the woods with a bear for a 'companion' and no one would think twice about how disturbing that is.
-I would be able to cast Power Word spells on people who make me angry.
-The Pope would be able to Smite Evil.
Assassinations would fade into obscurity.
So would graveyards
CSI probably couldn't air on public TV after the first troll rending episode
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- We could be paid to go on quests.
- Mummification would still be a widely practiced form of burial.
- When going out to a bar you would grab a sword and dagger instead of your wallet and keys.
- Adventurer would be a legitimate occupation.
- All large buildings and homes would have dungeons. Many of these would be connected to the sewer system.
Every workplace would be equipped with an old four-player Gauntlet arcade game to teach the importance of teamwork,
Instead of war, we’d have two nations battle it out in a winner takes all game of Risk,
Driving ranges would be used to practice your sword-swing.
I would be known world-wide!
Ultradan
-people could legally live in the woods with a bear for a 'companion' and no one would think twice about how disturbing that is.
LMAO!
- My god would grant me spells.
- And not be pi$$ed at me for selling them.
- To buy a magic mace.
Although I suppose I've missed the point a bit and wandered onto 'if RPGs were real'. oh well... Take 2!
- Mountain Dew would be available in the UK again.
- 'Pulling a Game' would replace 'Pulling a Sickie'.
- Your FLGS would become 'Games R Us'. (Then I could steal a staff badge to go with my Toys R Us one! Hurah!)
- Sitcom characters would all game together, regardless of what the show was about.
- Dice shares would rocket.
;)
Peace,
tfad
The journalists would hire clerics to cast zone of truth at all Washington news conferences, and end politics as we know it!
The capital press corps would all take cleric levels so they could cast zone of truth at White House press conferences
Advertising companies would pay enchanters to implant suggestion spells into their advertisements. Anheuser-Busch would see profits spike 1000% at Super-bowl time, and the cops would have to be armed with wands of hold person to control all the rowdy drunks
My students would stop reading the newspaper during class, because they'd take it seriously when I threaten to turn them into toads. (Or maybe I'd use mass charm person every time I walk into the lecture hall to make sure they listen attentively and give me good instructor evals.)
People would pay me thousands of gold pieces in sage fees to share obscure trivia from my vast store of useless and arcane historical knowledge, because they would need the information to complete quests and remove terrible magical curses. (Hey, I kind of like this world!)
The Great Druid and his council would stop global warming.
I'd have acid beetles infesting my kitchen instead of cockroaches. (Yikes, maybe I don't like this world!)
Michigan would be the Frostfell. I'd have to make a wandering monster check every morning to see if I encounter Faerie Frost or Chosen of Kostchie riding Woolly Mammoths on my way to work.
I'd have to leave offerings for the dryads in the University Wood Lot on my afternoon walks.
A vivid imagination would be valued.
Faith would be more than just words.
People would say "prove it" and you could.
There really would be things that go bump in the night...or in the day.
It has to be said: chainmail bikinis.
The capital press corps would all take cleric levels so they could cast zone of truth at White House press conferences
No one would ever speak in the White House again.
I would be able to cast a divination spell and know why this thread exists twice over.
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The capital press corps would all take cleric levels so they could cast zone of truth at White House press conferences
Let's not forget Congress. All those %$$%$^*!@ (on both sides) could use a good dose of truth.
The Great Druid and his council would stop global warming.
Don't you mean climate change. It's hot because of global warming. No wait..its cold because of global warming. Personally, I love the idea of the planet getting warmer. If I never saw snow again I'd be a very happy zombie.
-A person could walk in public wearing a heavy cloak and not have people look at him like he has two heads.
But I do that all the time...:-D (Maybe 'cause I'm in the SCA?)
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-World Wide D&D game day would become World-Wide D&D Game Week.
-Oubliette's would become a standard form of punishment.
-All newborn's would be given a copy of the Player's Handbook.
-A person could walk in public wearing a heavy cloak and not have people look at him like he has two heads.
HUZA...
When my daughter was born(9 monthes ago, and 2 monthes premature) I went to the nearest game shop and bought her the seal set of core books... which are still sealed on her book shelf...
yeah wearing our cloaks in public without everyone staring would be nice.
Political debates would be to the death.
Jehova's Witness' would have to compete with the Church of Vecna just like all the other cults.
Saying you have "The CLUB" to protect your car would take on a whole new meaning.
An Anti Theft device in you car would involve poison needles and lightning wards.
Cloning research would be dedicated to bringing the monster manual to life, damn the consequences!
Midgets will officialy be renamed halflings.
Dwarfs renamed Gnomes.
Game suplies would be a tax write off as would pizza.
There would be a reason for college students/adventurers-in-training to visit the local bar/pub on weekends other than to just get wasted. Oh and getting wasted would have possible deadly consequences instead of just more dorm damage fines.
Director of Narrative
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-A person could walk in public wearing a heavy cloak and not have people look at him like he has two heads.
Cloaks really need to come back into fashion. They're far too useful and the only thing that makes coats better is pockets, but a few minutes at a sewing machine can fix that.
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An Anti Theft device in you car would involve poison needles and lightning wards.
Expanding on this idea...It would be perfectly reasonable to protect your home with various concealed lethal devices such as poison needles, pit traps, falling masonry triggered by pressure plates, etc.
And a few other things...
Bars would be Taverns.
Restuarants would be Feasthalls.
The police would be the City Watch, or the City Guard.
If I remember correctly, various days of the week got their names from days celebrating various old world gods. We would go back to the original names:
Wednesday - Woden's Day
Thursday - Thor's Day
Tuesday - Tyr's Day
Saturday - Saturn's Day.
Any others?
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Of course...
Monday - Moon's day
Sunday - Sun's day
Tuesday - I forgot this one
if we(gamers) ruled the world
- carrying a sword in public
would be considered normal.
- everyone would wear their "house"
colors.
- Heraldry would make a comeback
- Robert Heinlein would have his
own religion; ala scientology.
And a few other things...
Bars would be Taverns.
Here, in Quebec, we have taverns. But they're just like bars. We also have Pubs and Brasseries. But they're just like bars too. Go figure.
Ultradan
If I remember correctly, various days of the week got their names from days celebrating various old world gods. We would go back to the original names:
Wednesday - Woden's Day
Thursday - Thor's Day
Tuesday - Tyr's Day
Saturday - Saturn's Day.Any others?
Friday - Freya's day
Any others?
We'd have :
Shopping Mauls,
Breastplate Implants,
Condoms of Comeliness (+4 Charisma),
Diet Potions (low calorie Red Bull's Strength),
Trojan Mini-vans (seats 250),
Gargantuan-sized Fries,
A Tarrasque petting zoo,
Wrestling would be real,
Gator-Aid would really have gator juice in it.
Ultradan
I have noticed that this thread wavers between "if the fantasy world bcame the real world" and "if gaming became mainstream."
I've always had a pipe dream to own a medieval-themed tavern that would have various rooms available for roleplaying games. Each room would have its own ultimate gaming table and there would be people serving tavern foods and drinks.
A group could rent a room by the hour for their various sessions and there could be tournaments, gift give aways, and beer specials on Gygax's birthday!
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I have noticed that this thread wavers between "if the fantasy world bcame the real world" and "if gaming became mainstream."
I've always had a pipe dream to own a medieval-themed tavern that would have various rooms available for roleplaying games. Each room would have its own ultimate gaming table and there would be people serving tavern foods and drinks.
A group could rent a room by the hour for their various sessions and there could be tournaments, gift give aways, and beer specials on Gygax's birthday!
Your name would be sung with great praise by the masses
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I have noticed that this thread wavers between "if the fantasy world bcame the real world" and "if gaming became mainstream."
I've always had a pipe dream to own a medieval-themed tavern that would have various rooms available for roleplaying games. Each room would have its own ultimate gaming table and there would be people serving tavern foods and drinks.
A group could rent a room by the hour for their various sessions and there could be tournaments, gift give aways, and beer specials on Gygax's birthday!
You could serve olde time mead and grog and Mutton. People could stay in the Inn part to sleep off the effects of the grog. You could even have a common sleep area (cots) for cheap*sses. I would reserve a week at this place in a heartbeat.
FH
I have noticed that this thread wavers between "if the fantasy world bcame the real world" and "if gaming became mainstream."
I've always had a pipe dream to own a medieval-themed tavern that would have various rooms available for roleplaying games. Each room would have its own ultimate gaming table and there would be people serving tavern foods and drinks.
A group could rent a room by the hour for their various sessions and there could be tournaments, gift give aways, and beer specials on Gygax's birthday!
Actually, here in Montreal, there's a few restauraunts that have taken that idea and made it work. You walk in and it looks like an old style Inn or Tavern. The waitresses are all dressed as serving wenches and all talk with an accent from the old days. You can order foods (like mutton or boar) and experience a real dungeon style meal. At times there are even people that play medieval music and sing alongs. Some customers (role-players, I suspect) actually come fully-dressed in cloaks and medieval themed outfits.
It's a little wierd at first, but after being there a while, you just get sucked into the fantasy. And the food's not bad either.
Ultradan