D&D Throughout History

[Matt Black]

1774: Marie Antoinette forgets to bring the pizza to her Swashbuckling Adventures game. Players are annoyed. When she suggests that they make do with cake, they form revolution and cut her head off.

 

[Anti-Sean]

October 14, 1066:

A Norman archer at the Battle of Hastings scores a critical hit, killing Harold the Saxon with an arrow through the eye. The remaining members of his party leave the game after arguing with the DM about his homebrew critical hit location table.

 

[Allandaros]

Hmph. Now I have to go support the South. *shudders*

1922 - General Secretary Josef Stalin begins playtesting new system, PARANOIA.

 

[STARP_JVP]

Thomas Jefferson had nothing to do with the writing of the U.S. Constitution.

Oh yes, let's all have a go at the foreigner who doesn't know who wrote the U.S. Constitution. Well Woe Is Me, I'm undone! How will I survive?

Sorry, that was uncalled for. I do apologise.

Oh, btw, that line about Marie Antoinette. That was funny.

 

[MonsterMash]

1774: Marie Antoinette forgets to bring the pizza to her Swashbuckling Adventures game. Players are annoyed. When she suggests that they make do with cake, they form revolution and cut her head off.

Shouldn't that be 1789?

1921 General Strike in the UK after announcement that 4e is due for release that year.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

1776: The American Revolution breaks out after King George and Parliment keep playing the colonials characters while the latter group is away from the court in the Americas. "No game-play with out representation!"

 

[Greatwyrm]

Edit: And wouldn't it be "Ach! SchwarzeBlatt! Nein!"

Once you get past counting to eight very angrily, my command of the German language gets pretty weak.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

28 June 1914: Using the spell sniper's eye, Gavrilo Princip makes a ranged death attack at Franz Ferdinand, who failed his save. This was seen as blatant player favourism by the DM, since the others were only allowed core book materials, and no evil characters. It comes to violence at the game table, which quickly escalates beyond anything ever before.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Late July, 1588: King Philip II of Spain sends La Grande y Felicissima Armada to escort his troop-barges across the English Channel. Unfortunately, Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada, was only given a copy of the vehicle rules present in the DMG for this undertaking.

Elizabeth I of England provides her commanders with copies of Corsairs, Dead Man's Chest, Seas of Blood, Seafarer's Handbook, and Black Sails Over Freeport, and grants Sir Francis Drake 5 levels in the Dread Pirate PrC.

The English Navy, solidly empowered by new feats, spells, prestige classes, and handling rules, easily routes the Spanish Armada.

 

[Anti-Sean]

399 BCE:

Socrates' fellow party members mourn his eariler decision to take the Iron Will feat instead of Great Fortitude.