Would you leave your life behind?

[Garmorn]

I would wake my wife (she would kill me if I left her behind).

Then off to one of the best D&D settings ever - Dragonstar!!!!!

Starships, computers, and all the modern convients that are far more advanced then ours. She would be drow pilot and me a human/Gold half dragon Fighter/Pyschicwarrior/Sorcorer.

No primitive world for me (except to fun or profit).

 

[NewbyDM]

hmmmm, my campain plain old D&D, that would mean leaving my computer, basketball, television, CD's, video-recorder, dishwasher, bath, lenses (can't use them forever), friends, family (excl sis j/k), beach, disco's, nice-underwear, shoes, exotic food, games, CLEAN WATER... etc behind. I can take some stuffwith me, but after couple of months its gone...
And also... i have to wait for some time before LOTR (twin towers) comes in that world's cinema's...

What do i get back for it??
Dangerous situations...
Every month a evil maniak who wants to destroy the whole world
Priests of an evil god who want to sacrifice me
working all day to sustain my living
Vampires do excist
How can i explain to my little niece that there is no monster under the bed??... If i don't even have the guts to look for myself
I bet my loaded dice aren't working there...

And don't forget that evil god-like-overlord person that calls himself Dungeon Master... o man, i would't go for all the money in the world!

And in my (game)world, with a rather high death rate... i wouldn't survive for a minute

guess i'lll stay home

 

[Zappo]

I'd go, even though it means I have studied computer science for almost my whole life for nothing. But what the heck, magic can't be that different, and I get to do to reality what I can do to a computer.

And yeah, I want the wizard to teach me his dimensional travelling trick. Even if I don't want to come back, in Planescape it will come useful.

 

[Oogar]

Ok, its midnight, you wake up (you were napping if your a night owl) and this wizard looking guy is in your room. Before you reach for the phone to dial 911 or the gun by your bed etc.. He pleads you listen to him first. He explains to you that your current beliefs on reality and dreams and such is totaly wrong and that there are parallel universes and one of them just happens to be your favorite D&D world.

That would in fact mean that my views on reality are correct.

I am 32, I enjoy my life. I like my family, and friends. If you believe in reincarnation then assume that I am on a vacation life. I am relaxed and try to prevent too much stress in my life. My job is enough to keep me in games and food. I have no significant other. I can usually find things to ammuse me. I am not a very pro-active person.

I would be through the portal before the offer was removed. I might try to gain a few concessions from the wizard, training or items.

I don't really want to descend into rabid munchkinism, but I have given this much thought. How about being a Silver or Gold Great Wyrm. Good spells, Polymorph, Morals and a long life still ahead. Not to mention that you would be the meanest SoB on the block for survivability. Maybe take a few levels of ....... Okay, starting to get silly. It would still be my first choice if I could pull it off.

And I would go even if I had to be not so lucky. A young mage that I once played in a game still seems quite appealing to me almost 17 years later.

Once upon a time I would have left simply to get out of this world. I am not that same person any longer, but I would still go. And I can say I would damn well try to enjoy myself until the Mind Flayer has my medulla oblongata for a snack.



Heh, Cleric/contemplative sounds nice as well. Raising the dead, healing people, being all like Buddha........... I like that phrase now...... Being all like Buddha I may have to change my Sig......

 

[Chrysoula]

Hm.

I don't know.

If it was just me, alone, no boyfriend, no friends, no dog... probably not. I've realized that my escapist fantasies have steadily gotten more populated with people I actually know these days.

But.

There's something not being considered, I think.

Even if you say /no/, it /happened/. I'm pretty sure that if a wizard showed up in my house, demonstrated magic to me, and I sent him away because he was asking for too much-- my life is still irrevocably changed. There's magic out there. It came to /me/. I'd find it again, on my terms. This is the modern world. Just because you say 'no' doesn't mean the story's over.


Besides, I'm way too paranoid. That kind of offer would make me immediately think of evil bad guys out to kill somebody. "Leap into this portal and get your dreams! But you must leap NOW, blindly." You need a certain kind of life to welcome that kind of blind risk, I think. I've been there before. I'm not really there now.

 

[Tsyr]

Ya know, now that I think about it, I don't know that I would take Valdemar... it would be Valdemar, or the earth of Shadowrun... either one I could stomach

 

[Corinth]

I'm gone. No wizardry for me. I'd become a warrior-king in due course, and then return to collect my people and bring them over.

 

[ForceUser@Home]

Would you do it? Would you leave it all behind? Your friends, your family, your dog. Would you get up and go right then?

In a heartbeat. I've got little to keep me here.

 

[Taloras]

All id say is that hed have to pick up my girlfriend.....and im gone. No questions asked. Id be in one of the Tayledras Vales near Valdemar.....Sure their life is risky, especially for a scout....but the magic....and the lifestyle.....id be in heaven. Not to mention their VERY relaxed attitude regarding....well, you know what i mean.

 

[Hakkenshi]

I don't mean to offend anyone, but it's pretty sad to see how many people say they would jet without a second thought. Because since it's not going to happen, that's a lot of depressed people.

Yes, I enjoy PLAYING a hero, but trying to BE one is crazy. Too many would-be heroes die untimely deaths. And there's the hurting, and the bleeding, and the *Professor Frink-like noise*

I think all in all, the Guardians of the Flame series (I think someone mentioned The Sword and Chain) got me to thinking I wouldn't do it if it was offered. Great series, written by Joel Rosenberg. Check it out.