What gameworld would you want to be in?

[Roman]

Since you only know D&D let me mention the OP:


the OP mentioning building a munchkin gurps supers character means that the choices are wide open. You do not have to be yourself...but you can if you want...you can have your memories...or not...

any setting, race, class, feat, power...whatever....after all for all I know the super hero character the OP created could be an ultra powerful drow with 20 levels of wizard (converted to GURPS) as himself.

I see. In that case, creating a custom homebrew setting for myself for this purpose would be the most sensible approach, which I would indeed take. If a custom-made homebrew does not count then my other homebrews would be the option I would take and failing that custom or good homebrews of others.

Still, I think this thread is supposed to be about published gaming worlds (hence no homebrews), of which I know only the various D&D settings. Out of those, it would partially depend on the interpretation of the rules. For example, if Planescape allowed access to all the other worlds, as was its original intention, but as is no longer really the case, I would go for Planescape and make myself somebody ridiculously powerful and able to travel to all the worlds of my choosing. After all, why restrict oneself if one can have it all? That is a bit cheap, though, and with current cosmologies the ability to travel from Planescape to all other D&D world's of ones choosing is questionable at best, it may not even fulfill its purpose. Consequently, perhaps a more grounded/specific setting would be more appropriate.

Out of such settings, I have a specific affinity for Dark Sun, but it is a bleak and inhospitable world. I guess it might not be all that bad, however, if one is somebody powerful, such as a mighty psion/preserver. Nevertheless, it has powerful beings that dislike competition and would seek to hunt one down, so unless one makes oneself truly ridiculously powerful (which is nice and dandy, but than again, what world would be bad if one had ridiculous amounts of supernatural power at one's disposal, so it kind of defeats the purpose), it would probably be more prudent to chose yet another setting, perhaps the Forgotten Realms and be a high level wizard there.

Whatever the setting I would chose, however, I would definitely chose to be somebody with supernatural powers (wizard/sorceror, psion/erudite, etcetera), chiefly due to their conspicuous absence on our very own Earth and therefore the new possibilities they would offer me.

 

[atomn]

I'd go with Ptolus or Forgotten Realms because I like the fantastical nature of them. Or Midnight because while it would be intensely harsh, being a hero there is that much more heroic.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Or Midnight because while it would be intensely harsh, being a hero there is that much more heroic.

and practically guaranteed to fail in the end. Or sooner, when some of the people you just helped turn you in for food

I love Midnight, but I wouldn't want to live there.

 

[Hidden Master]

For me, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; I'd make a great Watcher.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Yeah, I know it's been done before, but there are lots of new users. So, if you could be a beginning character in any game world, which game world would you want to be incarnated in? What kind of character would you build? Oh and gamers that choose the same world will appear together in that game world.

I'll start...
Me I'd go for gurps supers. I'd build munchkin. It's me after all.

Please note that the OP says a beginning character. So I'd probably go the same route.

 

[Ace]

Yeah, I know it's been done before, but there are lots of new users. So, if you could be a beginning character in any game world, which game world would you want to be incarnated in? What kind of character would you build? Oh and gamers that choose the same world will appear together in that game world.

I'll start...
Me I'd go for gurps supers. I'd build munchkin. It's me after all.

either the GURPS Supers world if I was a Super or Aldea from Blue Rose.

 

[wolfpunk]

Hmm interesting, no love for Rifts, Shadowrun, or Paranoia, wonder why?

I am going to go out on a limb and say Jovian Chronicles, sure the world isn't perfect, but giant mecha, all those japanese anime girls, and a decent standard of life, kind of hard to beat in my book.

 

[Jeremy757]

The Marvel Universe or, maybe, the DC universe.

Oh my! I wouldn't go near DCU. I'm sure they have a yearly body count quota in heroes and non-coms. Not to mention the yearly event that devestats and destroys almost everything. The prisons suck (revolving door) and insurance prices and medical care prices must be through the roof, even compared to our world.

If you could start out as a Therapist specializing in post tramatic stress syndrome you could rake in the bucks i bet.

Now if you let me start out with Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt i might just do it.

 

[Korgoth]

A beginning character? Known Space all the way.

I consider the world of Transhuman Space to be a hellish dystopia, Traveller's Imperium probably sucks if you're not one of the .000000000000001% among the privileged elite and most fantasy worlds are really brutal. Even Forgotten Realms, with the added ignominy that before Elmunchkinster shows up and steals your thunder (or clicks his tongue over your corpse) you'll be doing an endless succession of stepandfetchit quests (if the computer games are any indication). Although of all the D&D worlds FRealms would probably be the best choice just because the bad guys are kind of a bunch of clowns.

 

[Wraith Form]

holosuites.

+ Nymphology.

You do the math.