Quote from: Doc Sammy;1126731This is probably true, and I say this as a fan of the zombie genre. However, it has prompted me to re-read my favorite Poe short story, The Masque of the Red Death, but I'm not the average person. I'm pretty messed up if anything.

I also think the virus will also eventually take the wind out of the sails of SJW culture. Identity Politics will be less of a concern for most people with an actual crisis on our hands.

Its the conservatives and Trump supporters who were in denial and well I don't know who you call an SJW but everyone else was telling conservatives they they were in denial.

In Australia and the US conservative governments went all socialist and started spending up... things they previously criticised moderates and centrists for doing.

I think its a good time to run a plague themed game, but probably not a caronavirus one.

Quote from: Nerag;1126770Its the conservatives and Trump supporters who were in denial and well I don't know who you call an SJW but everyone else was telling conservatives they they were in denial.

In Australia and the US conservative governments went all socialist and started spending up... things they previously criticised moderates and centrists for doing.

I think its a good time to run a plague themed game, but probably not a caronavirus one.

Agreed, I do think there's potential in plague-themed stories, but the plague has to be an allegorical one as opposed to directly including the Coronavirus.

Also, when I talk about the virus crashing SJW culture in the long run, I'm more referring to identity politics and the "culture war" of the last ten years or so. The economic Left vs. Right debate will still be very much a thing post-virus.

SJWS will keep screeching, but people aren't listening anymore and I doubt their influence will fully recover.

Masque of Red Death is an awesome short story. The Poe Museum has a live reading video and the text online.
https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death

Quote from: Koltar;1126756I am so sick of 'zombie' stories in movies and on TV....and gaming too.

I'm a huge fan of the zombie genre and I'm totally burnt out. Like Vampires, Zeds are cheap monsters to film and instantly identifiable by the audience which is why we see them overused in cycles.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1126588I really wouldn't want to make or run a Coronavirus-based adventure.

Hey man! Certainly not. My initial post was nearly three weeks ago, and things have devolved CONSIDERABLY since then. Last mission was a basic tavern start for noobs, nothing pandemicey about it.

At this point I'm more curious how the pandemic is seeping through the cracks into peoples' campaigns.

But as a world-builder, I'm sure that this new sense of confinement and paranoia, watching the world outside get progressive more alien, watching society behave in strange ways, is having SOME effect on what you're coming up with.

I wish there was a way to gather all of the campaigns people are playing and to analyze them. Are people setting their campaigns more outdoors than before? Are there more cave and sewer settings? More people flying through the sky? More scifi campaigns where people fly to huge outdoor brothels on the sides of neutronium mountains?

So many questions.

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1126731This is probably true, and I say this as a fan of the zombie genre. However, it has prompted me to re-read my favorite Poe short story, The Masque of the Red Death, but I'm not the average person. I'm pretty messed up if anything.

Such a good story. Nothing messed up about loving good art, however much it makes the gentry clutch their pearls and gasp!

Quote from: S'mon;1126778SJWS will keep screeching, but people aren't listening anymore and I doubt their influence will fully recover.

I would love it if the SJW's could get back to reality. Its been an interesting decade, and they've raised a few good questions. But at this point we're seeing that perhaps things were being taken for granted and perhaps people were staring at interesting trees while the forest around them caught fire.

GodDAMN you gotta lotta blogs, homie. Love that shit.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1127108I'm a huge fan of the zombie genre and I'm totally burnt out. Like Vampires, Zeds are cheap monsters to film and instantly identifiable by the audience which is why we see them overused in cycles.

Agreed: completely burnt out. Zombies are still a bit interesting to me though in that a zombie plague gives you a good way to feel morally justified with shooting your neighbor/friend/enemy/parents/priest/etc. in the face with a shotgun.

I've always half entertained the conspiracy theory that Hollywood loves pushing zombie fiction because it makes us all feel a little more like Barbara from 1990's  Night of the Living Dead, shooting and clubbing farmers and former allies alike. I WoUlDn'T rUn It PaSt ThE iLlUmInAtI.

Quote from: Godspar Games;1125271How are YOU using the current pandemic in your games and in your worldbuilding and storytelling?

Those that survive the virus no longer age. After a few months, people begin to realize this.
Some of those that were not infected become resentful of their neighbors that are now immortal.

Quote from: Godspar Games;1127136GodDAMN you gotta lotta blogs, homie. Love that shit.

Cheers

I have way more than are in my sig - I do a blog for almost every campaign since 2011.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1127140Those that survive the virus no longer age. After a few months, people begin to realize this.
Some of those that were not infected become resentful of their neighbors that are now immortal.

Thats pretty rad, Driscoll. Its kind of like a reversal of the book "Supernova Era" by Cixin Liu.

What does a plague look like in D&D?

Cure Disease is a 3rd level spell, so you need at least a 5th level Cleric and they can only heal one person per day and nothing stops them from getting reinfected. So, unless you have an army of clerics, they can't hold back a plague. And then there's the issue of who gets the cure? Does the god have any say in who the cleric heals? Or can they sell their spell to the highest bidder?

In many campaigns, plagues would come from Gods of Disease. Does the nature of a plague make the Disease God more powerful than its rivals?

Quote from: Spinachcat;1127495What does a plague look like in D&D?

Cure Disease is a 3rd level spell, so you need at least a 5th level Cleric and they can only heal one person per day and nothing stops them from getting reinfected. So, unless you have an army of clerics, they can't hold back a plague. And then there's the issue of who gets the cure? Does the god have any say in who the cleric heals? Or can they sell their spell to the highest bidder?

In 5e, paladins (of any Oath) can also Lay on Hands and cure one disease* per level per day. In this, they can outperform clerics and they have the added benefit of being immune to diseases themselves after 3rd level.

* For added fun, wait until your paladins want to cure such things as tooth decay and obesity with a touch.

Quote from: GnomeWorks;1125289I don't need the events of the day infiltrating my gaming time, thanks.

Yeah that's why I didn't run the postapocalyptic game I wanted to.

We're playing AD&D1e using the Pathfinder Kingmaker campaign as a base. When we got attacked by blood-sucking bats we called them corona bats, but that's been the full extent of it. Otherwise, the fact that a bunch of guys who live in the same city are playing by Google Hangouts is enough of a reminder. At least two of our kids are getting to play because of that, though.

I guess it would depend on how prevalent clerical magic is in your game world.  Certainly in L&D, Clerics are rare enough, and rarely high-level enough, to make a real difference in stopping a plague.