If you had a Time Machine...

Steve Jung said:
Have I got a game for you. :)

I was about to suggest the same thing. That game is great fun. I especially love the fact that one of the possible goals you get is to destroy all of existence by creating 13 paradoxes in the timeline.

Thing is, they need a new version with more low-key events. Like, yeah, "New Coke phenomenal success! Bitter Pepsi employees bomb Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta!"
 

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I'm surprised no one has made any Quantum Leap jokes yet.

So yes, after answering a lot of the great mysteries of the ages (the various proclaimed patsies of the era of assassinations in the 60s; the 'alien crash' at Roswell; Jesus; chicken or the egg), I'd have to do a few things on my list.

Buy several boxes of Beta magic cards -- 10, preferably. I wouldn't sell them for profit. I'd just love to go to Gen Con and offer a "Beta Magic Draft" with an entry fee of only $9 (which is about what the cards would cost). I can only imagine how much joy that would bring to some people.

At least once I'd have to knock on the door of my ex-girlfriend while she was . . . involved with someone else. No hard feelings, but I figure she deserves a bit of a hard time for it.

Yeah, I'd go see Star Wars. In England, since that's where my father was stationed at the time. And then I'd invite my dad, my mom, and my older brother (who would be about four months old at the time) out to dinner afterward to talk about how cool it was.

I wouldn't do this, but I think this would be a great way to show that a time traveling villain is a massive bastard. Have him go to Mt. Vesuvius the day before the eruption and offer people vast sums of money to buy their boats. Then just burn all the boats and leave.

I'd bring the current staff and all the computers of Industrial Light & Magic back in time to 1984 and tell George Lucas to go for it! Just, y'know, to see if he'd always been insane, or if it truly was the result of the monster that lives in his neck.

Get a couple of very strong guys to shanghai Kurt Cobain and then fake his death. Ditto Elvis and Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Jim Belushi and Janis Joplin. Get them into a group therapy session. Or a jam session.

One week before GenCon 2000, go up to Monte Cook and show him the 3.5 edition of the PHB.
 

mhacdebhandia said:
A more fun and interesting way to make a fortune would be to rescue lost manuscripts and items that are thought to have been destroyed, seal them safely in an obscure location undisturbed by time so as to age properly, then go back and retrieve them. ;)

Have you read Kage Baker's The Company series? If not, you should.
 

One more that's just important to me and geeks like me

There is one thing I'd really like to do: Make sure Jim Henson actually goes to a hospital instead of putting it off until the doctors couldn't save him. ;_;
 

Become a teenage Sex Pistol
Stop Johnny from introducing Sid to Nancy
Become a Bromley
Keep Generation X from breaking up
Save JFK
Crash the Buffy auditions so I could armed with 7 seasons of knowldege get cast as Xander
Stop TSR from firing Gary Gygax
See all the Star Wars movies when they origonally hit theatres
Go back to my first day of school and drive my Dad to work so he wouldn't be in a wheelchair
Crash the episode II auditions and get cast as Anakin Skywalker
 
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Well, let's see. Hmmm. In addition to some of the great suggestions already posted . . . .

Well, I'm gonna need a number of airtight, atmospherically controlled containers, and probably a selection of mercenaries to hold off anybody who objects. Destination: the Library of Alexandria, ten weeks before it burns. They've got some editions I'd like preserved for, well, all time, really. It'll be pretty hard to convince the locals that it's for the greater good, I reckon. I just hope they can forgive me.

Warrior Poet
 


1. Take tapes of what happened on Sept. 11 2001 and go back to Sept. 1 2001 and warn the right people.

2. Keep going back to those 10 days in May 2004 when I took that trip.......*SIGH*
 


* Dinner and beer after with Ben Franklin in a public house

Yeah. I've always thought that Franklin would be one of the cooler guys from history to talk to

I'd like to talk to Jefferson too.

For entertainment, I'd go back to the 1960s and catch al lthe cool shows (Hendrix, Beatles, Floyd, etc).

I'd also go hang out with Jesus, and the Buddha for a while… then I’d take them to a Black Sabbath concert.
 

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