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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 1703000" data-attributes="member: 14041">You know, I appretiate what you are trying to do here.  Really.  You are attempting to play devil's advocate, getting people to see things from a different perspective.  A vital and neccesary endevor in any field,and I do appretiate it.However, in addition to some of the other flaws people have pointed out in this logic, there is the matter of Rules of Reality.  Faerun is not logically consistant, its not the real world, in fact you cannot possibly extrapolate a real world given even the basic factors that make the Realms what they are.Given that if a portal transported you to such a universe that world woudl be goverend by different rules than our own.  Its a world DESIGNED for unique or special people to grow in power through having adventures.  I belive by definition our hypothetical 15 year old transplanar selves qualify as "special."So, our newly arrived selves will almost immediately be caught up in some kind of "adventure."  Its the nature of the universe. Its a world full of demigods and greater beings that like to mess with mortals.  It isn't a logically consistant constructed reality, its a world created to facilitate one thing only: adventuring.However, adventurers have horrible things happen to them.  Thats practiacally the definition of Adventure. Anxiety, Pain, Suffering, and Uncertanty. The things that happen to our PCs would be awful if they happened to us.  You are right, no down time, no safe haven, or at least no more than one might reasonably expect for adventurers.  I have had adventures IRL, and as Bilbo said, they make you late for supper.The transported 15 year old self would not likely be shackled by a dreary stepfamily, at least not for long, nor killed out of hand, nor any of the many other possibly unwelcome and worse fates enumerated in this thread.  That self would likely follow the adventuring life one might desire.And then he would die in about a year.Or at the very least see his companions die, have horrible pains inflicted on his body, mind, and spirit, have his loved ones threatened, his trust betrayed, and his riches lost only to be rewon and lost again time after time.So yes, going through the portal does allow you to adventure, and have all the things that happen in the game happen to you for real.Its not going to be pleasant, but it will be interesting.</blockquote>

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