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.
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. :)
Well that's easy.
Mutants and Masterminds. And I'd have the powers of Invisibility and Flying.
Yeah.
Probably a very boring one set a few centuries in the future. Which I guess means that I'm an optimist.
What was the game where you played gods? Aria?
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.
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....
I would go for Forgotten Realms...next door to Elminster.
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.
Mystara would be cool ... if I could be an Immortal. (Otherwise, no thanks, as death would be swift.)
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.
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! :D
-clash
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. :D
The world of GURPS Technomancer. Everything like ours, but with MAGIC!
Are you kidding?
There isn't a gameworld out there that could even come close to what I plan to do in the afterlife! :D
Transhuman Space, for sure.
Uplifted animals, genetic engineering and technological utopia. Of course, if you read Ray Kurzeil's "The Singularity is Near" he says some of us may live long enough to experience this anyway.
Regarding my own powers, I'd probably be a memehacker (close enough to whatI do for a living anyway) with an astropus (yes, check the rules - it's there) sidekick.
I would definitely get the hell off of Earth, too.
Eberron. As a warforged. With VP/WP and some feat or PrC that leaves me crit-immune.
Yeah.
Or maybe I'd be quori...
The way I see it, most people in RPG settings would kill to get to earth just so they could live in the Detroit projects.
I'll keep my cushy seat here, thank you. :D
If forced to take my pick, I'd go with Lookshy in Exalted. I'd sign up for the Gunzosha legion and start bucking for Solar Exaltation before my batteries burned out.
I dunno.... that setting from the book of erotic fantasy is pretty tempting
:spank:
Well, I'd go one of two ways:
- The Third Imperium of Classic Traveller, somewhere in the core, where I'd immediately enlist in the Merchants; or
- A Fifth-wave nation in the future of Transhuman Space, for the healthcare and the access to information. I'd probably get myself a new body that looked a little like Thomas Dolby, with bioluminescent neon accents and --
Umn, one of those two.
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Well, I'd go one of two ways:
- The Third Imperium of Classic Traveller, somewhere in the core, where I'd immediately enlist in the Merchants; or
- A Fifth-wave nation in the future of Transhuman Space, for the healthcare and the access to information. I'd probably get myself a new body that looked a little like Thomas Dolby, with bioluminescent neon accents and --
Umn, one of those two.
I lust for that kind of access to information. I can't wait until wireless technology and the internet become ubiquitous enough that I never have to leave it behind, and can carry it everywhere I go. I'd love to experience an electronically augmented reality.
Quote from: mattormegI lust for that kind of access to information. I can't wait until wireless technology and the internet become ubiquitous enough that I never have to leave it behind, and can carry it everywhere I go. I'd love to experience an electronically augmented reality.
I'll agree with you there.
BTW, like the new avatar.
Quote from: Dominus NoxBTW, like the new avatar.
's very fine indeed.
Hmm. Lots of choices for good medical insurance and internet porn. Very few choices for
adventure. I thought you were made of sterner stuff, rpgsite!
Dreampark for LARPing that actually looks enjoyable or Star Trek for the Holodeck, then I could visit any of the other worlds whenever I liked.
Quote from: fonkaygarry's very fine indeed.
Hmm. Lots of choices for good medical insurance and internet porn. Very few choices for adventure. I thought you were made of sterner stuff, rpgsite!
Hey, sucka, you stand here and you tell me, to my
face, that Merchants in the 3rd Imperium don't have adventures. While you're busy doing that, I'll be outrunning a bunch of gun-toting primitives whose holy relics I just bought with hooch.
EDIT: My other choice would be Vanth. You know, from
Encounter Critical. What
Would Thrazar Do? Try real hard to hang out with Rotwang!, is what.
Quote from: Dominus NoxI'll agree with you there.
BTW, like the new avatar.
Thanks!
Shadowrun,
'nuff Said.
Quote from: fonkaygarry's very fine indeed.
Hmm. Lots of choices for good medical insurance and internet porn. Very few choices for adventure. I thought you were made of sterner stuff, rpgsite!
So Eberron not adventure?:confused:
Quote from: beejazzSo Eberron not adventure?:confused:
No. :snotty:
EDIT: BLAST! Done in by Rotwang!'s triumphal ego!
Quote from: fonkaygarryNo. :snotty:
EDIT: BLAST! Done in by Rotwang!'s triumphal ego!
Ego?! Psssh! That's
moxie, son!
QuoteEberron. As a warforged. With VP/WP and some feat or PrC that leaves me crit-immune.
Yeah.
Or maybe I'd be quori...
But...living constructs...you're made in a forge and the only 2 beings still making more of your kind are irretrievably batshit!
And I don't want to think WHY you want to be a psionic-pseudo-Lovecraftian nightmare-beastie from another dimension...