If you could live in a game world....

Dominus Nox · October 30, 2006, 01:46:09 AM

Ok, here's the setup: You die, and it turns out that somehow you have enough good karma in your account to be reincarnated into the world of your choosing.

So, what game setting/world would you want to live in if you could? If you want to go a little further, what kind of general character would you like to be in it?

As for me, it would have to be a high tech SF world, maybe one of the traveller settings.

Note that this question is not "What is your favorite game world" but rather "what game world would you want to live in" as there are nice places to visit but you wouldn't want to live in them.

mythusmage · October 30, 2006, 01:55:32 AM

The Earth of Transhuman Space, for the medical care. (For some dang reason my last few lives have been marked by Clinical Depression, I'd like to break the cycle in my next life.)

If that's not available, Ærth of Dangerous Journeys: Mythus. Healing magick would work just as well.

el diablo robotico · October 30, 2006, 02:30:32 AM

Well that's easy.

Mutants and Masterminds. And I'd have the powers of Invisibility and Flying.

Yeah.

arminius · October 30, 2006, 02:36:00 AM

Probably a very boring one set a few centuries in the future. Which I guess means that I'm an optimist.

Sosthenes · October 30, 2006, 04:28:37 AM

What was the game where you played gods? Aria?

The Yann Waters · October 30, 2006, 06:30:04 AM

Quote from: SosthenesWhat was the game where you played gods? Aria?

In Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth, you played societies... Actually, the problem with the settings of such "god games" as Amber and Nobilis is that they really wouldn't be much fun to live in unless you had the chance to be godlike yourself.

Transhuman Space isn't a bad choice.

droog · October 30, 2006, 07:55:44 AM

I'd have to go for my V&V campaign world, where I control mass and gravity, am super-intelligent, and want to remold society to my plan.

I'm also the GM....

One Horse Town · October 30, 2006, 08:11:59 AM

I would go for Forgotten Realms...next door to Elminster.

Joey2k · October 30, 2006, 08:27:15 AM

Can I pick Star Trek? There's an rpg or two about that. And it is the most optimistic look at the future I've seen.

Akrasia · October 30, 2006, 08:35:38 AM

Mystara would be cool ... if I could be an Immortal. (Otherwise, no thanks, as death would be swift.)

Akrasia · October 30, 2006, 08:41:59 AM

Frankly, most of the settings that I know anything about and like -- Mystara, Warhammer Old World, Wilderlands, Shadow World, etc -- are pretty grim and inhospitable. That's probably why I like using them for gaming.

The non-fantasy settings that I like best, e.g. Whedon's 'Buffyverse', tend to have high mortality rates and regular apocalypses -- fun for the spectators, not the participants.

I've never been into superhero RPGs.

In terms of science fiction, I suppose living in the Traveller universe would be okay, although I'd prefer something closer to Ian M. Banks' 'Culture' setting.

There aren't any science fictions RPGs that simulate Banks's Culture novels, are there? Pity.

flyingmice · October 30, 2006, 08:46:00 AM

My own Cold Space/FTL Now. Our own world, but with Spaceships! I really like my life and my family, but if I had access to space, my life would be complete!

-clash

Samarkand · October 30, 2006, 08:49:59 AM

Does GURPS Discworld count?

Otherwise, generic D&D fantasy world with better-than-usual hygiene, ample supply of Charm spells, and a nearby village full of highly suggestible wenches.

joewolz · October 30, 2006, 10:27:32 AM

The world of GURPS Technomancer. Everything like ours, but with MAGIC!

Vellorian · October 30, 2006, 11:44:34 AM

Are you kidding?

There isn't a gameworld out there that could even come close to what I plan to do in the afterlife!