If Great Figures in History were Gamers

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Edgewood

First Post

• May 31, 2010

• #1

When I have spare time and I'm not preparing for my Pathfinder group or playing a game of World in Flames with a friend of mine, my mind drifts and I wonder about odd things.

For example..

If people in history (and I talking about influential people like Einstein, Hitler, Johanne Gutenberg, Leonardo DaVinchi, etc..) were gamers what games do you think they would have played?

Adolf Hitler: I think he would have been an avid Avalon Hill junkie.
William the Conquerer: Warhammer Miniatures.

Who else can you come up with?

 

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CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing

• May 31, 2010

• #2

"Give me Liberty, or roll initiative!" -Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

Our Founding Fathers would have been all about some rules-heavy 3.5E or Pathfinder action. Oh yes.

 

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Jack7

First Post

• May 31, 2010

• #3

That's a really interesting approach and one I've not thought of before. I'm gonna suggest one.

Archimedes - Ars Magica. And chess.

Eisenhower and Von Clausewitz - wargames (course they did this in real life too)

Da Vinci - I actually think he'd like D&D. And probably many board games, like Monopoly.


I'm also gonna suggest this - what kinds of characters would they be or wanna play?

Da Vinci - Wizard/Bard

Shakespeare - Rogue

Saint Ignatius Loyola - Wizard/Cleric

John Milton - Bard/Cleric

Theodore Roosevelt - Paladin

Daniel Boone - Ranger

 

On Puget Sound

First Post

• May 31, 2010

• #4

Jesus of Nazareth: Pandemic
Charles Darwin: Spore
Carl Sagan: Cosmic Encounters
Genghis Khan: World of Warcraft - for the HORDE!
J P Morgan: Monopoly (or maybe Rail Baron)
Adam Smith: Settlers of Catan
Edgar Alan Poe: World of Darkness suite
William Shakespeare: D&D - 1st edition
Tokugawa Ieyasu: Diplomacy (no, not Shogun - too much luck for him)

 

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Varianor Abroad

Explorer

• May 31, 2010

• #5

Heh. HG Wells was a gamer! He wrote one of the first rules for miniature wargames.

 

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ggroy

First Post

• May 31, 2010

• #6

Britney Spears - a Bard with weak psionic powers

 

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ggroy

First Post

• May 31, 2010

• #7

Edgewood said:

Adolf Hitler: I think he would have been an avid Avalon Hill junkie.
William the Conquerer: Warhammer Miniatures.

Who else can you come up with?

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Josef Stalin: Paranoia rpg

Robert McNamara: Rolemaster

Heinrich Himmler: Pendragon

Caligula: chaotic evil characters in D&D

George W. Bush: first person shooter video games played in "god mode"

 

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Rechan

Adventurer

• May 31, 2010

• #8

Socrates and Plato: They actually wouldn't play, but they'd be on messageboards waxing philosophical about roleplaying. If they played, they would be LARPers.

McCarthy: Paranoia.

Nero: Fiddle Hero.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: GUMSHOE.

Joan of Arc: Exalted.

Lincoln: Vampire.

Theodore Roosevelt - Paladin

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No way. Roosevelt was a total Ranger. He even had Favored Enemy: Animals.

 

Wormwood

Adventurer

• May 31, 2010

• #9

Teddy Roosevelt: Spirit of the Century

Jonathan Swift: All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Microlite d20

Da Vinci: Shadowrun 1st edition

Dante Alighieri: Planescape

Bram Stoker: Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG

H.P. Lovecraft: PbP

 

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ggroy

First Post

• May 31, 2010

• #10

Optimus Prime - paladin

Beavis and Butthead - level 0 humans with all stats at 3

Wile E. Coyote - rogue with a very high constitution

Megatron - high level barbarian

Superman - epic level paladin

Osama Bin Laden - rogue with high charisma and high intelligence

Vladimir Lenin - wizard with high charisma

Cheech and Chong - bards with low wisdom and moderate charisma

Hulk Hogan - low level barbarian

Jeffrey Dahmer - low level evil fighter (and cannibal)

Richard Ramirez - low level chaotic evil cleric/fighter

Dog the Bounty Hunter - ranger

Saddam Hussein - warlord/rogue

J Lo (Jennifer Lopez) - bard/sorcerer with moderate psionic powers

Vladimir Putin - warlord/wizard

Ozzy Osbourne - bard with moderate charisma and high constitution

Barack Obama - wizard/bard/warlord with high intelligence and high charisma

Bill Clinton - bard/warlord with high intelligence, high charisma, low-to-moderate wisdom, high constitution