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Piers Anthony, Cary Elwes, or Ronnie James Dio. I can't narrow it down more. Piers Anthony wrote a HUGE amount of fantasy and sci-fi including one of my favorite series: Xanth. Cary Elwes is a great fantasy actor and seems very well spoken with a good working knowledge of swashbuckling action. Dio......no further explanation needed....
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Gore Verbinski is the master storyteller of our generation. It would be great to see what he would be capable of as a DM.
Harry Turtledove in an alternate history modern d20 game (who better?)
Jerry Pournelle or Larry Niven in a Spacemaster campaign (I based my old Spacemaster campaign off their War World series)
Johannes Mario Simmel in a Top Secret campaign (he's a German spy novel author who wrote awesome WWII suspense spy novels)
Walter Koenig in a Star Trek/FASA campaign
Katherine Kerr in a celtic D&D campaign
Gary Gygax or Roger Moore in a GH campaign
Tom Moldvay for Basic 1970's D&D
Ed Greenwood for FR campaigns
Jim Rupel for Ravenloft (he's a deceased friend of mine and a great gamer/DM who ran the most suspenseful Ravenloft campaign ever)
Neil Peart for any Ayn Rand based or dark future RPG ("we have assumed control")
Brian White for Klingon PCs Star Trek RPG (he's a friend who's given up on RPGs, but he ran the finest Klingon campaign ever in the 90's)
Carlos Hathcock for a Vietnam based RPG (think how freaky that would be?)
Any were_cabbage for any game, really....Wereplatypus, did you ever get that pulp fiction d20 modern game up and running?
My wife for a Wheel of Time RPG game, because she lives and breathes that s@*~ and I'd like to see how she could handle being a DM.
....more ideas....
Joel Rosenberg for Twilight: 2000 (I think he could really do something awesome with the premise of that game) (I was going to say Tom Clancy, but he'd get too bogged down on details)
S.M. Stirling for post-apocalyptic settings other than Twilight: 2000 (actually, a toss up between him and Robert Adams)
Heathansson, I'm sorry for going beyond the scope of your question, but it's a great thread idea that got me thinking. Apologies....
PS: All games would have to be played in Ultradan's garage, with two refrigerators full of fine Canadian beer.....
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No problem, dude. I'm digging the whole thing.
I had a hard time settling on Bob Howard, because the whole game would probably end in a massive argument.
Others for me would be Quenton Tarantino, Mark Twain, Voltaire, and Michael Moorcock. I bet Voltaire could come up with some far out stuff. And Steven King.
Ravenloft - Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Stephen King or Clive Barker.
Greyhawk - Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson or Erik Mona.
Call of Cthulhu - HP Lovecraft or Clark Ashton Smith.
Oh, and many of the fine people on these forums. :)
Oh, and many of the fine people on these forums. :)
I'd figure we'd be the players....I'll give you a twelve pack of Shiner Bock for a character sketch.
Fritz Lieber, J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard would all make for excellent DMs I think.
I'd leave the rich campaign setting and epic adventures to Tolkien.
Roguish, urban and somewhat comical adventures would be right up Lieber's alley.
For visceral, 1-on-1 sessions, Howard would be able to deliver on the horror and severed body parts.
I'd also like to clone myself and play in my own campaign just to be able to better critique the job I'm doing as a DM. ;)
I'd love to play in a game DMed by Raymond E. Feist or Robin Hobb. Feist could do a pretty good "gritty" feeling game with occasional comic breaks and some of my all-time favorite NPCs (Nakor, for example). Hobb would be great for a game heavy on psionics and court intrigue, though I'd struggle mightily to avoid meeting any royals just to avoid Trait Names (Regal. *twitch*). A comic game run by Piers Anthony would certainly be a lot of fun. (Heck, adapting Xanth to the D20 System has the potential to be interesting, if awkward).
In a more oddball light, I'd love to play a session of Ravenloft with John Chick as the DM, just for the pure irony. Tycho Brahe (the webcomic writer, not the other guy) could probably do a killer D20 Future game, and Randy Milholland would likely do an excellent job with Tomb of Horrors.
In the realm of Dead Guys, I can't help thinking that Winston Churchill would've made an awesome DM.
And, of course, (as Lilith noted) there's no small number of people on here who I'd love to game with.
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Tolkein.
George Martin.
Dare I say Shakesphere?
Machieveli for heavy RPing.
Oh, and many of the fine people on these forums. :)I'd figure we'd be the players....I'll give you a twelve pack of Shiner Bock for a character sketch.
Mmm....Shiner Bock...*drools on thread*
What about Terry Goodkind for some fast paced fantasy
I'd probably have some fun with it... I appreciate higher-level gaming, and am good enough at quick number crunching to pull it off. (And you just *know* that a game with Goodkind would start out at level 12 at the lowest... he throws in epic NPCs the way the rest of us use Kobolds and Zombies.) On the other hand, I would only be able to play during the wee hours of the morning, and even then only by online media. I haven't gotten the hang of monologuing when I'm all "there", either in terms of mental capacity or actual physical presence.
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Jack Chick. I think he'd be very effective.
Me: "I listen at the door, what do I hear?"
Jack: "Screams of agony and everlasting pain coming from tortured souls like yourself who chose to participate in this game of witchcraft and evil."
Me: "Hmmm...okay...I make a Knowledge Religion check. Are those tortured souls ghosts?"
I have to break it down by game too:
Ars Magica - Jonathan Tweet
AD&D: Greyhawk - Gary Gygax
AD&D or D&D 3.X: Forgotten Realms - Ed Greenwood
Call of Cthulhu - John Tynes
Cyberpunk (any) - Walter John Williams
D&D 3.X or Rolemaster - Monte Cook
GURPS - Kenneth Hite
HERO System - Aaron Allston
Over the Edge or Feng Shui - Robin D. Laws
Runequest: Glorantha - Greg Stafford
World of Darkness or The Everlasting - Steven C. Brown
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Jack Chick. I think he'd be very effective.
Me: "I listen at the door, what do I hear?"
Jack: "Screams of agony and everlasting pain coming from tortured souls like yourself who chose to participate in this game of witchcraft and evil."
Me: "Hmmm...okay...I make a Knowledge Religion check. Are those tortured souls ghosts?"
Mark my words: one day they'll have a pamphlet about renaming the days of the week because they all represent pagan gods.
Dudes! And dudettes!
Role-playing!
Where are all the actors (beside Shakespeare) and psychologists?
Shakespeare is a given, writing and stage presence all in one. Same goes for Marlowe.
On that stage presence note Kenneth Branagh, Christopher Lee, Robin Williams (funny voices and all), and John Lithgow (character acter extrodinaire). For the psychology side of things Carl Jung, Niccolo Machiavelli (who was humanist and satrist).
Then there are the classics: Jesus (everyone has Diplomacy as a class skill and has taken a Vow of Peace), and Hitler (you kill all the goblinoids and take their things).
And because I'm a single guy, a cute curly-haired 18-year-old girl in a bikini (or three of the same) would be cool too, espeially if ther was a lot of excitement and jumping about. ;)
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My only hope is to play consistently with the people I'm already running a campaign with. But this stupid thing, what's it called? Oh, right, the demands of that stupid thing called LIFE foil us time and again. Life had best watch its tookus.
I would be curious about playing with William Shatner. Or any member of the Paizo staff or the good folks on the paizo messageboards. As long as we could meet on a regular basis.
And because I'm a single guy, a cute curly-haired 18-year-old girl in a bikini (or three of the same) would be cool too, espeially if ther was a lot of excitement and jumping about. ;)
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Jolly good idea old bean! I'm hereby ammending my list to also include:
* Christina Ricci (gothic/moody settings and just to look at)
* Jennifer Love Hewitt (any lady who does cosplay for the opening of Star Wars would surely be up for some gaming)
* Monica Bellucci (no qualifiers needed)
* My 2nd favorite female D&D character, Alis (beautiful, charismatic, elvish and a high-level Bard to boot)
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If you could play D&D with anyone live or dead as dungeonmaster, whether or not they ever played just say they did, who would it be?
Robert E. Howard
dude invented Conan; what else do you need?
If Dungeons and Dragons was in existence when Robert E. Howard was alive, i believe he would have re-thought his suicide. Dude would have been a huge gamer and, no doubt, an owner of an incredibly popular rpg/gaming company. If anyone has any questions about my potential bias, just take a glance at my name. Ha. If anyone out there in paizoland has never read Robert E. Howards Conan, then i strongly suggest that you do. Best heroic fantasy every written, arguably.
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...Jesus. o.o
Most of what has been already said I would agree to.
An urban campaign, likely set in Eberron, with Arthur C. Doyle as DM would be... splendid.
Tad Williams would run an interesting, if perhaps verbose, game.
Any number of the artist/writers for webcomics I read could prove to be entertaining DMs.
Genghis Kahn.
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Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, Erik Mona, Tracy Hickman, Margret Weis, Ed Greenwood, Larry Elmore, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Brooks, and pretty much anyone else with the ability to really draw you in to the story and run a great game.
Stephen King, Clive Barker, Robert E. Chambers, H.P. Lovecraft
I love Terry Goodkinds work. I've actually tried to come up with stats of a Gar in my campaing.
King Richard "Lionheart" cause he's seen some wicked stuff in his travels and could bring some "realisim" to the story.
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Rasputin the mad russian. I've just always found him interesting and wonder what in the world his sick mind would come up with.
Honestly? Justin Pfiel, my gamemaster from college. I've not met a better one before or since. :)
Gary Gygax
R.A. Salvatore
Monty Python
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I think that Ernest Hemingway would run an engaging game, if we tapped his geek side enough to come indoors.
Also:
Edgar Allan Poe
Steven Spielberg
Mary Shelley
Harlan Ellison
H.G. Wells
M. Night Shyamalan
Chuck Palahniuk (author, "Fight Club" - a friend of mine was his neighbor a few yrs back)
Irwin Rommel (Field Marshal, WWII; encounters would be hell)
Sun Tzu
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Monte Haul
Me: "Another +5 vorpal sword? Sheesh. I throw it in the bag."
Monte: "Don't forget to check your carrying capacity."
Me: "My Strength is 563. I think my halfing wizard can carry an extra 8 pounds of gear. Hey, when are we going to get to second level?"
Monte: "Oh right. You get 1.2 billion xp for that kobold you just killed."
Lewis Carroll. He had a great imagination, came up with all sorts of fantastical ideas, loved puzzles and invented the Vorpal Sword.
Luo Guanzhong (author of the Chinese classics "Journey to the West" a.k.a. "Monkey" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for a campaign of spies, warfare, and epic level confrontations with completely bad-ass monsters
Alexandre Dumas, Pere--for a completely rocking swashbuckling and court intrigue campaign.
Charles Dickens--his NPCs would rock
Tolkien--who could come up with a better setting?
I'll stay away from Goodkind (interesting author, but his villains are just a bit TOO sick and sadistic, and he takes far too much delight in describing them as such, for my tastes, anyway). And Stalin also (*imagines a bullet in the back of the head as the price for killing the DM's favorite villain*).
Tom Hanks.
he was a great DM in Mazes and Monsters..
David Duncan...
great Canadian fantasy author..The seventh sword, man of his word etc..
Tolkien of course, since I know he would have the details on any question I asked him on the world or history..
Luo Guanzhong (author of the Chinese classics "Journey to the West" a.k.a. "Monkey" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for a campaign of spies, warfare, and epic level confrontations with completely bad-ass monsters
Actually, Wu Cheng-En wrote Journey to the west— in any case, either of them would be rockin' GMs.
Me, I'd like R. Sean Borgstrom, Neil Gaiman or Ursula K. Le Guin!
Jesus of Nazareth. That dude must have been so charismatic, by the time the game is over, I'd really BELIEVE that I am my character!
Alfred Hitchcock - I'm sure that with his ability to think up horror stories and create suspense, he would be a terrific GM who would love to mess with his players heads.
Gary Gygax to run an Eberron game.
Ed Greenwood to run Greyhawk.
Keith Baker to run Dark Sun.
Hitler. Because any game is better when there're nazis to kill. Granted, Hitler'd want to have you ally with them (unless you were a member of an inferior race), but this'd be one DM whose campaign it would be fun to wreck. :-)
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For famous D&D people, I'd go with Jeff Grub. The man was very active in past editions of the game. And I can't say I'd know what to expect from him. Some interesting monsters, certainly.
A famous author I'd be interested in seeing DM would be Robert Asprin. His books run the gamut. In all honesty, I'd love to see a magic system that was based on drawing energy from ley lines.
As for Jesus, I'd rather not have him as the game master. I'd feel pretty bad for not turning the other cheek or loving my enemies... And I have a feeling that while he might raise a player, a character that dies stays dead...
Gary Gygax to run an Eberron game.
Ed Greenwood to run Greyhawk.
Keith Baker to run Dark Sun.
That's not a bad idea at all!
Terry Goodkind- First off I'm glad that so many have had the chance to enjoy his work. This sick little puppy would come up with the best villians ever. They would be so demented and wrong that there will be no role playing needed. You honestly will just want to watch them die a horrible death. I mean come on, a creature that uses a swarm of biting insects to hunt how awesome is that!
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Douglas Adams.
That would be a totally unpredictable game.