D&D Throughout History

[Gentlegamer]

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.

Well, the joke really only works when the person and date are correct . . .

You could substitute James Madison, I suppose.

 

[Gentlegamer]

1930s Germany: Adolf Hitler demonstrates the effects of 18 Charisma on an entire nation.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

25 June 1876: George Custer and his fellow PCs - an adventuring company called the "7th Cavalry" - grow tired of the low survivability rate of non-Paladin, non-Animal Companion mounts in stock D&D and their DM's unwillingness to add some house rules. In retaliation, they kill their mounts ("Since they're just going to die anyway.") and fudge their dice rolls, leading to a campaign-ending TPK, hoping that the next DM will play a little more fairly.

 

[Anti-Sean]

64 AD: The burning of Rome grants Emperor Nero a +2 circumstance bonus to his Perform (String instruments) check.

 

[Matt Black]

Shouldn't that be 1789?

No, she forgot to bring the pizza way back in 1774, when she made that silly comment about making do with cake (and m&m's, if I recall). It took them till 1789 to finish her off. The GM had insisted on a round-by-round breakdown of the entire French Revolution.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

1519. Cortez comes to Mexico and finds that the native roleplayers make heavy use of the Sacrifice rules from the Book of Vile Darkness. In a LARP. He quickly takes over the local roleplaying szene and enforced the old world rules. Two years later, the biggest LARP site in the coutnry, Tenochtitlan, was dismantled.