As a fair counterpoint to my thread about what game world you'd like to live in, I guess I'll ask what game world you would most NOT want to live in.
For me, any cyberpunk/dark future one in general.
SYNNIBAR.
I WIN.
Year of the Zombie for a distant 3rd! I say distant because of all it's politicians having the election promise of "A Wild Turkey in every pot."
Quote from: Andy KSYNNIBAR.
I WIN.
Fuck that. Every other shopkeeper in Synnibar is a 60th level tiger-fucker or some such. Who gives a shit about wingbears shooting lasers from their eyes when you can karate chop them from the sky with your discarded foreskin and the Venderant Nalaberong?
Old World, baybee. Anywhere you can take a midnight piss and discover you've grown a
miniature you from your forehead is the worst place I care to think of.
Mmmm... let's see.
Cyberpunk, no... I'd like to live in it... infact Blade Runner is my fav movie. Even if I understand that actually living in it... mmm.
Kult? Yep... sometimes I think that there could actually be something true in Kult cosmology, in bleak worlds just after that rusted door in that old abandoned warehouse... that would really suck.
Living in a universe in which the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos actually exist would be quite creepy.
But for being depressing, living in the world of Midnight has to be the worst (the Warhammer Old World is Eden in contrast).
HoL?
Bloodshadows doesn't sound to good, either.
Exalted...where as a normal mortal you truly are insignificant. The revolution will never come becaue a legion of mortals could never stand against a single god king. So you live out your life hoping the Exalts will make life easier for you.
Any post apocolyptic world based on FGU's Aftermath rule set- I'd spend my whole life counting bullets and trying to factor in all the modifieirs.
Quote from: KrakaJakExalted...where as a normal mortal you truly are insignificant. The revolution will never come becaue a legion of mortals could never stand against a single god king. So you live out your life hoping the Exalts will make life easier for you.
Beaten. I'd be a survivor in YotZ before I'd be a non-heroic mortal in Creation.
Blue World.
Fucking hippies!
Quote from: MaddmanBeaten. I'd be a survivor in YotZ before I'd be a non-heroic mortal in Creation.
But there are
ways, man! Like I said in the "best world" thread, you can join the Gunzosha and try for Exaltation!
Isn'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?
Quote from: mattormegBlue World.
Fucking hippies!
Blue Planet.
Fucking dolphins with lasers on their head. And wrinkled skin from being in the water all the time. I
hate that.
Warhammer 40k as an Imperial Guard member or human civilian on one of the Hive Worlds. Ugh.
...Or any Christian RPG, for that matter.
Twilight: 2000 wouldn't be too much fun, I'd imagine. Especially Poland.
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!"
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?
-Marco
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!
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.
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.
the world of Tyranny Game's The End...all the horrors of a post-apocalyptic setting, and nowhere to go once you die. doh!
Gotta go with HoL.
Or 'Mutha Oith' from Low Life.
-Thornhammer
Phæree. You change in Phæree.
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.
"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.
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.
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