Would you leave your life behind?

[kenjib]

Wife. Kids. Heck no. Besides, the modern world r0xx0rz. I'd prefer not to get slaughtered mercilessly by the forces of darkness, thank you!

 

[Umbran]

Leave a life of relative wealth and comfort, good friends, loving family...

...for a life of violence, trial, pain, lies, betrayal and vengeance (typical qualities of fictional fantasy worlds)?

I'm gonna need a whole lot better reason than "it's nifty".

Face it, folks - characters in fantasy fiction aren't having fun. They don't enjoy their lives. They are usually subject to great physical and emotional trauma. You want that? Fine, go to your fantasy world. I'll read the book about you, or watch the DVD movie scene of you struggling to eat hardtack while I'm chowing down on a chili-dog and hot-fudge sundae

 

[Tiefling]

I can easily understand not wanting to go because of loved ones, or because you don't want to get defaced by an illithid, but because you wouldn't have HAIR DRYERS? That's pretty sad. There must be some sort of corrolation between people who couldn't stand life without hair dryers and people who wouldn't survive two minutes in the wilderness.

I have to agree with jester47, the middle ages weren't great with respect to general quality of life, but some of you people make it out like a concentration camp.

So to answer the question, yes, I would go in a second. My world of choice would be Westeros.

 

[Forrester]

Not a chance. I know too much about the filth and disease and rotten food of medieval life to ever want to live in it for real.

Besides, I wouldn't leave my husband. After 14 years, he's still the best thing to ever happen to me. And I'd miss my sweet little dog too.

Oh, and did I mention blow dryers? Where would I plug it in? Sorry, no dice.

Whatever . . . just make sure that you come in as a wizard who knows Prestidigitation. No need for toilet paper ever again!

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I can easily understand not wanting to go because of loved ones, or because you don't want to get defaced by an illithid, but because you wouldn't have HAIR DRYERS?

Well, yeah.

Here's an experiment you can try on your own.

1) Find a supermodel and get her to go camping with you while wearing a chainmail bikini (she would be wearing the bikini, not you).

2) Kill something in a heroic battle. In your case, this would be a hand-to-hand struggle with a klondike bear. In my case, this would be a gopher I'd pick off with a missile launcher. The supermodel can help.

3) End your trip at Boris Valwhatshisname's summer home and ask if you can pose.

4) Conceal your dissapointment when he directs you to Phil Phoglio.



My point is there's heroic adventure and there's just scraping by while feeling unwashed.

Here's a question: how much camping have you done? I've done some and for me, part of the fun is coming home and taking a good, long bath while eating something I bought in plastic wrap.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

how much camping have you done? I've done some and for me, part of the fun is coming home and taking a good, long bath while eating something I bought in plastic wrap.

I enjoy camping, but it is not as if most fantasy worlds would require camping.

FD

 

[Tsyr]

What if comming home is the part of camping I like the least? And I backpack camp, mind you... none of this "Load an SUV with everything but the kitchen sink and call it camping" stuff. Yes, that means using one pan to cook numerous things over a fire for a week, using river water as cooking water, sleeping in a tent just big enough to fit in (why carry extra material just so you can stand up in the tent?), cutting down my own firewood, etc. I can even start a fire with flint and steel, for that matter, although I prefer matches I will admit .

For that matter, I hunt (Deer, duck, and when the opertunity presents itself, rabbit and bear... and some of that is with a bow, mind you... and a recurve at that. Granted, not the duck... not that good of a shot...), fish... slaughter my own animals, thank you very much, and I've even made stuff from the deer hide. I grow my own food (Well... some of it. I don't have enough land to grow ALL of it, my entire garden is only about a half-acre), I can generaly tell "Edible" for "poison" in plants, and know what parts of a plant constitute "seed" for later planting.

Not ALL of us are incapable of surviving on our own Making eagle scout goes a long way, but that doesn't teach you a lot of that stuff.

And, as far as having a usefull trade... I can sew, do simple leather work, I'm a passable carpenter for non-detail work, and am an aprentice smith... yes, blacksmiths do still exist, even in the US of A. There are a number of other things I could theoreticly maybe do... in theory, I know how to bind a book, make paper, etc. Never done any of those, except tried to make paper a few times in the comfort of my own home, but I do theoreticly know how.

 

[Tiefling]

Here's a question: how much camping have you done? I've done some and for me, part of the fun is coming home and taking a good, long bath while eating something I bought in plastic wrap.

Really? For me coming home is the bad part. I go for the hiking, although sleeping under the stars ain't bad either. I used to go backpacking with my father and brothers a couple times a year, although we don't do it much now, with life getting especially hectic. Most years we (the whole family) take these great cross-country trips during the summer towing a pop-up camping trailer, which isn't quite the same, but sometimes my father and brothers and I leave the trailer for a few days and go backpacking (my mother and sister stay at the camper, as they don't enjoy it as much. Fools ).

 

[Furn_Darkside]

For that matter....

Sheesh- if someone makes me this offer, then I am going to insist they invite you to come along. *chuckle*

FD

 

[the Jester]

Well, I'm currently dropping everything in preperation to travel _our_ world, so hell yeah!