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<blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8169927" data-attributes="member: 6685541">In 2040 D&amp;D will have become so mainstream that it will have worked its way into every aspect of our lives.We will call sleeping at night a &quot;long rest,&quot; and when the baby gets fussy it will be time for a &quot;short rest.&quot;Grades in school will be on a scale of 1 - 20, and yes it is possible to critically fail a class.On forms at the doctor's office, you will have to check off your lineage, alignment, and if you play with the Lingering Wounds house rule.Political campaigns will include rewarding experience points and randomized treasure to voters. The two major political parties will be the &quot;Dungeon Crawl Party&quot; vs the &quot;Story Arc Party.&quot; Clinching the Murderhobo Vote is a must, but luckily any politically-driven violence occurs only in the Theatre of the Mind. Political scientists and pundits alike will be hotly debating on cable TV if the DM, truly, is a player.At baby showers, gifts often include large foam polyhedral dice and &quot;Baby's First D&amp;D Podcast&quot; kits.Holiday family arguments will all be centered around Edition Wars.New Olympic Events will include Dice Stacking, Hex Crawling, and a bunch of centaurs trying to climb ladders. Instead of saying &quot;Let the games begin!&quot; announcers will instead launch the events by saying &quot;Roll initiative!&quot;Every TV channel, steaming service, radio station, and podcast network will have their own competing D&amp;D live streams.Instead of new Marvel movies, Disney will just film the cast playing their roles in an ongoing Marvel RPG.They will reboot Friends but all the Friends just play D&amp;D every episode.They will reboot Cheers but instead of a bar it's a D&amp;D game.They will reboot the Office but the entire series is about a long-running D&amp;D game in the Dunder Mifflin break room.The United Nations flag will feature a 20-sided die instead of a picture of the Earth. As global leaders play out their power fantasies at the gaming table instead of in real life, as families and friends come together weekly to slay dragons and find treasure, as the global population improves in number sense, estimation, and quick math skills, as the world unites under one Mega Campaign That Never Ends, we as a species collectively level up and achieve world piece.Then we get bored of D&amp;D and switch to something like FATAL and it all falls to pieces.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BookTenTiger, post: 8169927, member: 6685541"] In 2040 D&D will have become so mainstream that it will have worked its way into every aspect of our lives. We will call sleeping at night a "long rest," and when the baby gets fussy it will be time for a "short rest." Grades in school will be on a scale of 1 - 20, and yes it is possible to critically fail a class. On forms at the doctor's office, you will have to check off your lineage, alignment, and if you play with the Lingering Wounds house rule. Political campaigns will include rewarding experience points and randomized treasure to voters. The two major political parties will be the "Dungeon Crawl Party" vs the "Story Arc Party." Clinching the Murderhobo Vote is a must, but luckily any politically-driven violence occurs only in the Theatre of the Mind. Political scientists and pundits alike will be hotly debating on cable TV if the DM, truly, is a player. At baby showers, gifts often include large foam polyhedral dice and "Baby's First D&D Podcast" kits. Holiday family arguments will all be centered around Edition Wars. New Olympic Events will include Dice Stacking, Hex Crawling, and a bunch of centaurs trying to climb ladders. Instead of saying "Let the games begin!" announcers will instead launch the events by saying "Roll initiative!" Every TV channel, steaming service, radio station, and podcast network will have their own competing D&D live streams. Instead of new Marvel movies, Disney will just film the cast playing their roles in an ongoing Marvel RPG. They will reboot Friends but all the Friends just play D&D every episode. They will reboot Cheers but instead of a bar it's a D&D game. They will reboot the Office but the entire series is about a long-running D&D game in the Dunder Mifflin break room. The United Nations flag will feature a 20-sided die instead of a picture of the Earth. As global leaders play out their power fantasies at the gaming table instead of in real life, as families and friends come together weekly to slay dragons and find treasure, as the global population improves in number sense, estimation, and quick math skills, as the world unites under one Mega Campaign That Never Ends, we as a species collectively level up and achieve world piece. Then we get bored of D&D and switch to something like FATAL and it all falls to pieces. [/QUOTE]

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