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Author Topic: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)  (Read 48196 times)

Trekkin

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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #270 on: November 19, 2017, 12:30:10 pm »

Something or other killed you. You wake up to find Death standing over you. Turns out the whole "game with Death" thing is real, and you can choose what game you want to play with him. Keep in mind he's been doing this for millennia and has likely been challenged to a very wide variety of games. What game do you challenge him to?
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One day, you wake up in the world of Minecraft, with all the attributes of a Minecraft character. What do you do?
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A mysterious box shows up on your doorstep or equivalent. The box always contains various works from up to ten years in the future(games, books(fiction and non-fiction), music, art, magazines, the like). How does this affect your life?

1. The Campaign for North Africa, just because this is probably the only scenario in which anyone has had time to play it.
2. Punch a tree.
3. The usual results of having knowledge of the future from nonfiction books.
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #271 on: November 19, 2017, 07:01:46 pm »

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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #272 on: November 19, 2017, 07:03:39 pm »

D&D, but I'm the GM.
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #273 on: November 19, 2017, 07:20:01 pm »

D&D, but I'm the GM.

But D&D is cooperative. How could you win in such a way that Death would also have lost?
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #274 on: November 19, 2017, 08:40:52 pm »

The point isn't to win, because you never "win" D&D, specially as GM. Point is to play for however long I want with skelebro.
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #275 on: November 20, 2017, 06:45:10 am »

Skelbro: I ROLL A CHAOTIC NEUTRAL KENDER ROGUE
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #276 on: November 20, 2017, 11:46:30 pm »

2x2 tic-tac-toe. Youngest player starts.
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #277 on: November 21, 2017, 03:30:41 am »

Something or other killed you. You wake up to find Death standing over you. Turns out the whole "game with Death" thing is real, and you can choose what game you want to play with him. Keep in mind he's been doing this for millennia and has likely been challenged to a very wide variety of games. What game do you challenge him to?
I read this in a webcomic once, but the obvious choice is a wet T-shirt contest. Even if your chest isn't particularly manly or womanly, it's likely to win over a bare ribcage.

Any sort of beauty contest would work, really.
« Last Edit: November 21, 2017, 03:32:40 am by IcyTea31 »
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #278 on: November 21, 2017, 03:35:03 am »

Something or other killed you. You wake up to find Death standing over you. Turns out the whole "game with Death" thing is real, and you can choose what game you want to play with him. Keep in mind he's been doing this for millennia and has likely been challenged to a very wide variety of games. What game do you challenge him to?
I read this in a webcomic once, but the obvious choice is a wet T-shirt contest. Even if your chest isn't particularly manly or womanly, it's likely to win over a bare ribcage.

Any sort of beauty contest would work, really.

Nobody saw my link?  :P

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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #279 on: November 21, 2017, 03:36:44 am »

I choose parliamentary debate, to be resolved and judged by a random and informed English-speaking human.

If anything goes wrong I spend the entire thing squirreling out with topicality arguments and philosophical critique of Death's person.
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #280 on: November 21, 2017, 01:19:33 pm »

I choose the Game of Life.
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #281 on: November 21, 2017, 01:21:05 pm »

What about The Game?
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #282 on: November 27, 2017, 09:09:33 am »

You and seven other people around the globe wake up wearing a pointy wizard's cap. There are eight colors of cap, and each one allows the wearer to use a different kind of magic.

Red: Fire Magic
Orange: Illusion Magic
Yellow: Light Magic
Green: Plant Magic
Blue: Electricity Magic
Indigo: Water Magic
Violet: Fungus Magic
Black: Darkness Magic

Wearing multiple hats does allow one to use multiple magics, and furthermore, enhances the power of all the caps one is wearing.

What do? What government do?
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #283 on: November 27, 2017, 04:06:55 pm »

Obviously kill the others and take their caps, in theory one will contain some kind of wizardry allowing me to wear 8 pointy hats at once. Until that time I would wear one on my head, one strapped to my chin as a wizardly beard, one on each hand, 2 as shoulder pads, and definitely wear one as a codpiece. The last one I haven't figured out yet because I haven't caught you yet, but I'm coming for you, Last Hat Wizard.

Also, take over the government and rule with a fist made of pointed hats.
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Re: Hypothetical: What do you do? (What if you had the cure for cancer)
« Reply #284 on: November 27, 2017, 05:30:46 pm »

Ew no, wearing more than one hat is incredibly tacky. What's even the point of being Sorcerer Supreme if you can't be a tasteful wizard?
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