Would you game through a nuclear war?

[VirgilCaine]

I suppose I could game the remaining 55 minutes.

Hopefully that was made in jest.

At any rate, not my continent, not my problem.

 

[Emiricol]

You've summed up my opinion better than I could have. No immediate devastation nearby, no loved ones in danger, and nothing I can do to stop it - let the dice fall my friends!

And for the record, my group gamed the night of 9/11/01.

Carp

My group games on Sundays. That was 9/16/01. We did game, and we were glad for the brief distraction. Then we all went home to our anger and pain. It was a nice four hours.

EDIT: No I wouldn't. I have a family I'd want to be with (i.e., get the hell out of prime nuke target areas, JUST IN CASE. Not likely, but I'd rather be cautious than lose my family.)

 

[Mac Callum]

I can appreciate that in a truly rational world there's little most of us could do to positively affect the situation, so gaming would be a return to "normal." However, no, I don't think I could game when something like that was going on.

However, even if it would be "OK" for me to game, I certainly hope that the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the world spent the time on the phone/ in the briefing rooms, etc. trying to prevent spreading conflict, and not saying "What the hay, let's do in some Orcs!" I've seen enough military folks on the boards to imagine that THEY would not have time to game.

 

[NiTessine]

Provided we didn't die in horrible pain and agony due to fallout from the inevitable nuking of Moscow which is really all too close to Finland to be comfortable... Hell yeah, if only because of the absurdity of it.

 

[Orius]

Suppose Friday night a former Soviet republic decided to nuke a neighboring country, say India. India retaliates, the Pakistanis jump in, and all hell breaks loose on the subcontinent. Nukes are flying, although nobody's pointing them here...yet.

Would you still meet up on Saturday?

Probably, I live in North America, after all. It would depend on how the other gamers in the group would react.

I doubt I'd want to play something like Gamma World though...

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

If I had a game set for that night anyway, well sure...

Of course, if something more improtant (such as worried family and other, closer friends) came up, I'd want to be there.

But would I stop my life because of some terrible world event? Heck no. That's how they get ya...

 

[Bendris Noulg]

Yes... Although we'll likely steal a boat and play enroute to the Carribean.

(Hey, I finally found an upside to living in Florida!)

 

[shilsen]

Suppose Friday night a former Soviet republic decided to nuke a neighboring country, say India. India retaliates, the Pakistanis jump in, and all hell breaks loose on the subcontinent. Nukes are flying, although nobody's pointing them here...yet.

Would you still meet up on Saturday?

Sure, I would game. And (since I'm responding to your example) just for the record I'm Indian and have 95% of friends and family there, but I can't see how worrying about it would help any, so I wouldn't. I'd go to work as normal (heck, a couple years ago, I taught two classes back to back 15 minutes affter finding out my dad had died unexpectedly) in the same scenario, so I'd game too. I wanted to game when 9/11 happened but other people in my group didn't want to, so we didn't.

 

[d20Dwarf]

where...how did the question come to you Wil??

Ask no further, you don't want to know...


But while we're on the subject:

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040409/1/3jdy5.html

 

[Dark Jezter]

This conversation reminds me of that episode of Futurama where the universe was destroyed, leaving Gary Gygax, Stephen Hawking, Al Gore, and Nichelle Nichols floating alone in an endless, empty void...

Gary Gygax: "Who wants to play Dungeons & Dragons for the rest of eternity?"
Al Gore: "I'm a 10th-level Vice President!"