D&D (2024) So have your characters ever met an Earthling? getting Modern-day Earth in your fantasy...

[Tonguez]

So I just had a look at the new Human entry and noted that it says "Humans are as diverse in appearance as the people of Earth"

I know that Earth is part of the DnD multiverse and that there have been portals between Earth and the DnD Realms, but with this reference being so prominent I am wondering have any of your DnD characters ever met an Earthling or even been to Modern-day Earth?

How willing would you be to have a character from modern Earth join your party? How keen would you be to visit modern Earth? Do you want Earth in your fantasy?

*I have a setting based on 18th C Europe - pre-modern earth, but its fantasy and not modern-day Earth

 

[DarkCrisis]

There was the group of kids who claimed to have went through a portal connected to a Dungeons and Dragons ride at a carnival.

They each had powerful magic items! Like a magic bow and invisibility cloak.

We slaughtered them and took their stuff.

A gnome in red robes appeared and he was all mad but we killed him too and took his magic medallion.

 

[Yaarel]

So I just had a look at the new Human entry and noted that it says "Humans are as diverse in appearance as the people of Earth"

I know that Earth is part of the DnD multiverse and that there have been portals between Earth and the DnD Realms, but with this reference being so prominent I am wondering have any of your DnD characters ever met an Earthling or even been to Modern-day Earth?

How willing would you be to have a character from modern Earth join your party? How keen would you be to visit modern Earth? Do you want Earth in your fantasy?

*I have a setting based on 18th C Europe - pre-modern earth, but its fantasy and not modern-day Earth

One of my settings is Near Future (technological speculations about reallife roughly year 2050).

 

[Oofta]

There was the group of kids who claimed to have went through a portal connected to a Dungeons and Dragons ride at a carnival.

They each had powerful magic items! Like a magic bow and invisibility cloak.

We slaughtered them and took their stuff.

A gnome in red robes appeared and he was all mad but we killed him too and took his magic medallion.

Tiamat? Is that you?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Always fun to think about, going both ways fish out of water.

Modern day earthling, transported to Eberron or Forgotten Realms or Sigil "yo, Pain Lady, be excellent!" (and for some reason everyone is talking Bill & Teds?!?)

Classic D&D party transported to earth "what be these horseless carriages" (and for some reason now everyone is talking Shakespearean?!?)

 

[MGibster]

How willing would you be to have a character from modern Earth join your party? How keen would you be to visit modern Earth? Do you want Earth in your fantasy?

In my very first 5th edition D&D campaign, a demon from the game world realized he was from a game world and wanted to break free. He ended up bonding with a player from the real world, thus creating a Warlock in the process, and the PCs went to Seattle attending a football match between the Seahawks play the Raiders at Lumen Field. Because of the way the PCs dressed, most people in Seattle just thought they were Raiders fans.

For those of you unfamiliar with American football, this is what a Raiders fan looks like.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The isekai is a too popular subgenre within the manganime. You may be forgotting somebody from our world in a fantasy realm could cause the begining of the industrial revolution. Do you remember the 1970 cartoon "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?

Not only the can't the native languange but the serious risk of accidental epidemic. The "intruder" could carry a radically different bacterial flora.

Thanks certain discoveries some regions could be more valious thanks certian mineral could be more useful thanks modern technology, for example aluminum replacing iron. The concrete could replace wood to build, and war chariots with a motor could mean the end of the classic chivalry. Or let's imagine the impact in the battlefield of crossbows that reload themself thanks a little motor. Medical knowledge about bacteria and viruses could be used by wicked people to create biological weapons, even when these were forbidden by all the nations.

 

[ezo]

I have never had a fantasy PC met with a human from Earth, however a few times I've run and/or played in games were we (as Earth people) traveled to a fantasy D&D setting and played as ourselves... briefly. Most times it did not end well.

 

[aco175]

We did, but they did not speak common.

 

[Voadam]

My current face to face group's 5e game has a premise where we are earth people who were at a company barbeque sucked up by "fisher" aliens and transformed into D&D bodies to do a gladiator games in a dimensional multiworld imperial magic and alientech elven empire hunger games.

When my dim VP of Communications was asked by the computer AI during processing what kind of body he wanted for the gladiator games, whether he wanted a radically different one or one like his original I said "Oh, I still want to be at least a little like me, maybe a bit healthier though? Can that be done?" and pop I came out a stout halfling who looked recognizably like his original appearance.

When told it was a magic capable world and asked what class of power suites I wanted I in character geeked out and said "Oh I get it! I want to be like Merlin and do wizard duels transforming into a crab and a goat and other animals! It would be cool to turn into a squirrel." so I am playing a halfling druid who thinks of himself as a Merlin.