Would you game through a nuclear war?

[Umbran]

OK by you if I think like a human, instead?

Then you think like one of the goober-heads who thought using a nuke was a good idea in the first place.

 

[Darkness]

Please stay on topic, folks. Semantics debates on this topic are unlikely to lead in a productive direction.

- Darkness, moderator

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Nah. I'd have to cancel the session

I'd be too busy using my radiation fueled superpowers to take over whats left of the world... the hat-ed facists will be the first up against the wall!

 

[tauton_ikhnos]

To answer original question: No. We game on Friday, not Saturday.



Seriously, I have priorities. Top of list is survival of me, family, friends. Second is maintaining certain minimum levels of life comfort. Third is everything I'm addicted to, which includes gaming, cigarettes, and playstation (in roughly that order of addictive strength).

If I can manage the first two, yes, I will game.

 

[Rabelais]

Game On!

Actually, we play on Thursdays. I'm pretty sure we gamed on 9/13 that year though.

 

[Wormwood]

Actually, we play on Thursdays. I'm pretty sure we gamed on 9/13 that year though.

We did.

Spent more time ranting than gaming, IIRC.

'Twas a good night, in any event.

 

[DM_Matt]

Incorrect. Even if nobody actually drops a bomb on the North American Continent, the effects of major nuclear exchange would be global, both in terms of effects on weather/climate, and upon societies.

Folks here are short sighted. No, I would not meet up for gaming so soon. If you don't die immediately, you spend some time making sure you also won't die in the forseeable future. I'll skip one gaming session to make sure I have a long life of future gaming sessions, thanks.

Think like the ant, not like the grasshopper.

Yup. That and if, as this case indicates, Russia teamed up with the Muslims and started nuking stuff the rest of the world wouold be very, very, screwed. Now Russia (or Israel for that matter) helping India better nuke Pakistan, while enormously unlikely, is at least somewhere in the far realm of plausable, and while I don't condone the mass-murder that that entails, if THAT successfully happened I'd feel MORE secure, since Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and the reckless sale of nuclear technology by rogue scientists are one of the biggest threats on earth.

(Which reminds me of the very strange story about how Pakistan made its nukes public. Pakistan has had nuclear weapons since 1975. They were the last to get them up until the NORCs in th 1990s. Rogue elements of their intellegence services desired that Pakistan be a public nuclear power for reasons of national and/or Islamic glory. So, they told the government that upcoming joint military excercises between India and Israel (both of whom got nukes around '68 or '69, although India didnt announce till after Pakistan and Israel still hasnt) were a cover for a preemptive nuclear strike against Pakistan. He bought it, and ordered a nuclear test.)

 

[Ferret]

Sure why not.

 

[D+1]

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.

Well no, you don't want Nero fiddling while Rome burns, but as for the military - what do they fight for if not to enable us to do a LITTLE fiddling? As you say, if there's nothing to be done by you personally, what does it serve to let your worries consume you? It doesn't mean you care any less about events if you don't devote your entire focus to them.

Of course I'm also a believer in the adage, "Put faith in God but put on a coat." If you're in a target area you don't choose your spell list and hope that the bad guys will forget about you. First you get you and your family to safety. Then you pray. Then you play.

 

[Haradim]

Yes.

Heck, some weekends, I wouldn't even know it occured until Monday...