Would you game through a nuclear war?

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Yeah, I'll be gaming until a big fat Rift opens up in my living room. As the Xiticix stream out into my kitchen I'll think, "Kevin Siembieda was right after all. Hope my boxing training helps me get off a couple more rounds from my pistol".

 

[Qualir]

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?

Yes.

If I have to die, I might as well die happy Of course, there are some things that prevent gaming (work, school, virgins in the nuclear war not wanting to die that way , etc)

 

[VirgilCaine]

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.

Incorrect. I said the nuclear war wouldn't concern me. What people do afterwards certainly would.

I don't think that there would be anything that the U.S. gov't would do in response that wouldn't have been done eventually over the next half-century.
Economically? More protectionism would be a likely response I guess, but that would also probably happen anyway in the next few years here in the U.S.

The environazis would be screaming their heads off, but the actual effects are probably just the kind of thing they have been whimpering that are increasing, so they'll get a lot more support.
The anti-nuke people would also get a lot more vocal--"We told you so!"

So it would speed things up in general, perhaps not really change anything, as far as U.S. reaction goes.

 

[milotha]

Well, if the game was already started, we probably would since we would have the TV and radio turned off. We don't answer our cell phones during gaming, and no one checks the internet. So, we just wouldn't know that it had started. If it started before the game, probably not. It takes way too long to get together, and if we did, we would just spend our time planning our our escape/survival.

 

[Dirigible]

The environazis would be screaming their heads off, but the actual effects are probably just the kind of thing they have been whimpering that are increasing, so they'll get a lot more support.
The anti-nuke people would also get a lot more vocal--"We told you so!"

Right, that's it. ENworld, gimme my hat back!

 

[Hida Bukkorosu]

sure why not. not like i'd even know about it till the next week, as i don't really pay attention to the major media. and if we get nuked, i hope im in the middle of the blast so i die quickly instead of slowly by radiation poisoning.

 

[BASHMAN]

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

Why Not? Don't nukes give you POWERS in Gamma World? LOL!
Signed,
Mr. Munchkin

 

[Henry]

Probably not; our group didn't game in the wake of 9/11, and probably not in that case, either.

The week AFTER, perhaps... by then, the steam and frustration would have built up to unacceptable limits.


And Wormwood,

If there were only an hour before nuclear annihilation, I would choose to be intimate with my wife one final time.

I suppose I could game the remaining 55 minutes.

You rule. That one's getting stored away.

 

[bubbalin]

Blah. All that work on my campaign....

LOL, would you reveal the secrets to your players? Or would you jsut let them go on wondering?

Personally I would go to my church and put on the evangelist hat.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Right, that's it. ENworld, gimme my hat back!

Why did you quote my third point instead of my first? It was political in nature also.