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

[jasper]

We did, but they did not speak common.

you don't speak Jersey?

 

[aco175]

Suggesting that Earthlings don't have any connection to Sigil?

I view it a bit like Bigfoot. You would think that someone would have hit one with his car by now, and we would have proof.

I like my D&D with no outer space and world hopping. We even hardly have anything to do with planes.

 

[R_J_K75]

Two stories I've heard from two friends, but I didn't play in either game.

The first was my buddy was playing in an early 90s Dark Sun campaign. They somehow got transported to then present-day earth. While there he got hold of a double barrel shotgun and brought it back to Athas. The party got the brilliant idea that this must be powerful enough to kill the Dragon Sorcerer-King Borys. Foubd his lair, talked all kinds of smack, pointed the gun and pulled the trigger and nothing happened. His DM told him something to the effect that because gunpowder didn't exist on Athas the gun didn't work. Regardless of whether it makes sense or not, I think it was the right call by the DM to not let the PCs take out such a strong NPC that easily.

One game store I used to go to, I got to know the owner and we;d trade game stories. He played in an Undermoutain campaign, and he said the party used to periodically run into a yuppie dressed in a 3-piece suit carrying a briefcase. He was always confused and never knew where he was and constantly trying to make sense of the fantasy realm he was now in. He was always just a really random encounter, he never attacked, and the party never attacked him. Thye'd interact for a bit then be on their way. I think the DM kind of led them on that there was some reason he was in the campaign, but they never did find out. Halaster must've captured him and taken great joy in watching this poor sap suffer.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

In the module "The Immortal Storm" the players have to travel to different places, among theses visiting Chicago and New York.

Other point is if some isekai visitor arrived, and this could change the History, all the deities would know, and this could mean different reactions.

Odiare is a domain of dread from a region of Italy within the "Gothic Earth".

If characters from Gamma World could visit some D&D realm, you may imagine the next.

 

[Umbran]

... I am wondering have any of your DnD characters ever met an Earthling or even been to Modern-day Earth?

Only once, long ago (August, 1985, to be exact)
Dragon #100 - "The City Beyond the Gate", in which the PCs travel to England to recover the Mace of Cuthbert.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

One game store I used to go to, I got to know the owner and we;d trade game stories. He played in an Undermoutain campaign, and he said the party used to periodically run into a yuppie dressed in a 3-piece suit carrying a briefcase. He was always confused and never knew where he was and constantly trying to make sense of the fantasy realm he was now in. He was always just a really random encounter, he never attacked, and the party never attacked him. Thye'd interact for a bit then be on their way. I think the DM kind of led them on that there was some reason he was in the campaign, but they never did find out. Halaster must've captured him and taken great joy in watching this poor sap suffer.

It would be hilarious if there was an encounter, and one of the PCs is served legal papers

 

[R_J_K75]

It would be hilarious if there was an encounter, and one of the PCs is served legal papers

Like Pulp Fiction I always wondered what he had in the briefcase myself, probably just crackers like Kramer on Seinfeld. Honestly the possibilities were endless

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

He could start his new shop to sell screws and nuts, or flush toilets with siphons to avoid the bad smell by the blackwaters. Maybe the printer is invented, and the wheelbarrow, but the pedal tricycle could be used for a service like taxis in the big cities. Or he could "invent" a reciprocating pump to raise water toward cisterns in higher levels.

Knowledge about fingerprints could help to discove criminals

Or she could set up a restaurant thanks her "secret" recipes.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

Reading this reminded me of the fact that Prince Adam/He-man's mother is an astronaut from earth.

I haven't personally done it in one of my games, but I'm reminded of the old novel series Guardians of the Flame. The premise was there was a gaming club, and their GM, one of their professors, is like 'Hey, we're starting a new campaign. Bring your old retired level 18s tonight.' Guy brings his new girlfriend so they make her a character as well.

Surprise - their professor-GM is an exiled wizard who sends them back to his world, in the bodies of their characters. To quote Wikipedia:
"Guardians of the Flame is a portal fantasy series by author Joel Rosenberg, and arguably his best-known work. The series is about a group of college students who participate in a fantasy role-playing game, and are magically transported to the world of the game by their gamemaster.

The first book, The Sleeping Dragon, focuses on the former students struggling to survive in the world of the game. The series progresses with the students choosing to live in the 'game world' and forming their own community, which is in part based on opposition to the ubiquitous slave trade. The series then expands upon the students' "Home" in the fantasy realm and their effecting societal change."

 

[Micah Sweet]

Reading this reminded me of the fact that Prince Adam/He-man's mother is an astronaut from earth.

I haven't personally done it in one of my games, but I'm reminded of the old novel series Guardians of the Flame. The premise was there was a gaming club, and their GM, one of their professors, is like 'Hey, we're starting a new campaign. Bring your old retired level 18s tonight.' Guy brings his new girlfriend so they make her a character as well.

Surprise - their professor-GM is an exiled wizard who sends them back to his world, in the bodies of their characters. To quote Wikipedia:
"Guardians of the Flame is a portal fantasy series by author Joel Rosenberg, and arguably his best-known work. The series is about a group of college students who participate in a fantasy role-playing game, and are magically transported to the world of the game by their gamemaster.

The first book, The Sleeping Dragon, focuses on the former students struggling to survive in the world of the game. The series progresses with the students choosing to live in the 'game world' and forming their own community, which is in part based on opposition to the ubiquitous slave trade. The series then expands upon the students' "Home" in the fantasy realm and their effecting societal change."

I read that series a while back. Great stuff! The wizard player who ultimately became known as "the Engineer" was my favorite.