What if real life was like D&D?

[RangerWickett]

Many sports would end. In football, hockey, and basketball, the guy with the ball or puck would just move and score before anyone else had a chance to respond.

Playing jacks would suck because it's a move action to pick up an item, so you'd never get a chance to get more than one at a time.

 

[Fishbone]

No, sports would end because mixing of races screws with the games totally. Flying with basketball? 15+ foot reaches making dunks routine? Though I would like to see a Thri Keen who idolized Chocolate Thunder really put on a show with dunks from the rafters.
Everyone seems to think that the world would be pig ignorant but many arcane magic users and creatures have Intelligence scores upwards of 30+. Realize that the smartest person who ever lived in the real world would rate about 20 and that is being generous.

 

[Tonguez]

No, sports would end because mixing of races screws with the games totally. Flying with basketball? 15+ foot reaches making dunks routine? Though I would like to see a Thri Keen who idolized Chocolate Thunder really put on a show with dunks from the rafters.

Actually a whole different set of sports would probably develop (Quidditch perhaps) or some of those contests on American Gladiator

The real problem is that most athletes (high dex, and high Str) will have charisma as a dump stat and no one will want to play with them - unless they happen to be clerics of course

 

[Slife]

Many sports would end. In football, hockey, and basketball, the guy with the ball or puck would just move and score before anyone else had a chance to respond.

Sure, if they WANTED to provoke AoOs.

 

[mythusmage]

Two words: Dragon Droppings

 

[Wik]

Hockey would be *so* much cooler.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Possibly literally...as a Sorcerous Goalie freezes the puck with an Ice Storm...or makes a whole bunch of saves with a Wall of Ice...

Until Mike Modano unleashes the puck with his +5 Flaming Burst Thundering Goalie-Bane stick!

But would Barry Bonds get his records asterisked if he used Gauntlets of Ogre Power, a Girdle of Giant strength and a Dwarvenville Slugger?

Could outfielders use Slippers of spider climb? Or cloaks of arachnida? (That web spell could come in handy.)

What sports would get the most use out of Grease, True Strike, and Sleep?

To look at the rest of society...

Would the dead have to keep their own graves tidy?

Would the fast food chains products be better if they could use a wand of Create Food and Water?

 

[B9anders]

Except for old age.

come on. When has anyone ever died of old age in D&D?

 

[Catavarie]

Would the fast food chains products be better if they could use a wand of Create Food and Water?

Not like they could get any worse

 

[Gez]

World wouldn't fear global warming, but would fear the opening of a large gate to Hell when the stars will be in the right place.

Well, that's already the case. Now if you said "wouldn't have to fear global warming, but would have to fear the Gates of Hell opening", then you would have a point.