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Worst game world to live in?

Started by Dominus Nox, October 30, 2006, 11:38:44 PM

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Mr. Analytical

#15
November 01, 2006, 07:42:48 AM
The Forgotten Realms obviously because you'd spend half your life with your local barman crying on your shoulder going "*snif* I was an experienced warrior... *snif* and a secret agent... *sniff* and now I tend bar?  what the fuck happened to my life man?  I didn't see myself going out like this" and the rest of your time going "Oh not more fucking Drow, i thought you bastards were supposed to be rare and never venture to the surface!"

Marco

#16
November 01, 2006, 07:45:18 AM
Warhammer FRP is up there (I mean, there are worse but ...). 40K might not be too bad if you managed a decent slot. Oppressive and ultra-grim, sure--but I bet you'd have a shot of a decent life if you got moderately lucky. I think it's harder to get lucky in the fantasy world.

Kult probably takes the cake though: aren't you tortured automatically after you die?

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mattormeg

#17
November 01, 2006, 09:41:11 AM
Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalThe Forgotten Realms obviously because you'd spend half your life with your local barman crying on your shoulder going "*snif* I was an experienced warrior... *snif* and a secret agent... *sniff* and now I tend bar?  what the fuck happened to my life man?  I didn't see myself going out like this" and the rest of your time going "Oh not more fucking Drow, i thought you bastards were supposed to be rare and never venture to the surface!"

Dude, you're on a roll - hilarious!

The Yann Waters

#18
November 01, 2006, 09:47:33 AM
Quote from: MarcoKult probably takes the cake though: aren't you tortured automatically after you die?
That's the reason why death was invented in the first place: to make you forget everything, so that you wouldn't piece together enough information to realize that you could be a god.
Previously known by the name of "GrimGent".

KrakaJak

#19
November 01, 2006, 01:24:02 PM
Quote from: FonkayGarryIsn't a (painfully short) lifetime of endless wuxia fighting so much better than hiding out in a shopping man, breathing through a pair a tighty-whities you soaked in Pine Sol?
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No, it would actually be a painfully short, repitive, reincarnation, hearing about other people doing crazy Wu-Shu Fighting, and hoping one of the multiple Ultimate Beings in Creation keeps their perverted imaginations away from you and your town.
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kregmosier

#20
November 01, 2006, 01:37:22 PM
the world of Tyranny Game's The End...all the horrors of a post-apocalyptic setting, and nowhere to go once you die.  doh!
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Thornhammer

#21
November 01, 2006, 03:53:49 PM
Gotta go with HoL.

Or 'Mutha Oith' from Low Life.

-Thornhammer

mythusmage

#22
November 01, 2006, 04:11:46 PM
Phæree. You change in Phæree.
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el diablo robotico

#23
November 02, 2006, 02:07:13 PM
Gamma World would be pretty crummy. Or any of those post-apoc worlds where civilization has crumbled and there are monstrous mutated creatures roaming the world waiting to tear you to pieces. Meanwhile you have to avoid huge swaths of radiated areas to avoid mutations yourself.
 

mattormeg

#24
November 02, 2006, 07:16:29 PM
"Year of the Zombie" would be a bad, bad time for all. Hungry walking dead, human predators, food and fuel shortages, rogue military and cops.

jrients

#25
November 03, 2006, 11:08:20 AM
Quote from: ThornhammerGotta go with HoL.

Or 'Mutha Oith' from Low Life.

First of all: Thornhammer!  Great to see you on this board!

You think 'Mutha Oith' looks rough, eh?  I think if one were reincarnated as a native it would probably be no worse than a generic fantasy world.
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Thornhammer

#26
November 03, 2006, 10:11:00 PM
Quote from: jrientsFirst of all: Thornhammer!  Great to see you on this board!

You think 'Mutha Oith' looks rough, eh?  I think if one were reincarnated as a native it would probably be no worse than a generic fantasy world.

Glad to be here.  :)

I adore Low Life as an example of worldmaking and as an example of how to do the design and theme of an RPG book right from cover to cover, but live there?  Yarf!

-Thornhammer
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