Treasure Type E

[robotnik2004]

"OK: any historic figure."
"I'd fight Gandhi."
"Good answer."
"How about you?"
"Lincoln."
"Lincoln?"
"Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger."

So Clinton Nixon and Vincent Baker have been "interviewing" each other in a thread at Fair Game—I put scare quotes around "interviewing" because it looks suspiciously like two friends just having a fun, free-ranging conversation—and one of them asked the other who their dream gaming group from history would be. They both had great answers:

Clincent: I'd like to play a game of Dogs in the Vineyard with Thomas Jefferson, Mae West, Wyatt Earp, Mark Twain, and Ambrose Bierce. Twain's the GM, of course. Jefferson's all "the-what-the-what" when he finds out what happened in the western US. "A theocratic governorship? Nonsensical fantasy!" And we all laugh, and Mae's character shoots someone in the face and then she winks at me across the table.

Vinton: We're playing My Life with Master. It's me, Jesus, Salvador Dali, and Christopher Robin Milne (as an adult), with Michael S. Miller GMing. Jesus gets really into it, he's all like "yessss masssster" and rolling his eyes wildly, but Michael makes Salvador Dali cry. Christopher Robin Milne OWNS the horror revealed.

I especially like that "of course" Twain's the GM. Like, duh.

I'll have to think about who my dream gaming group would be. Some of you have already heard my reverie about Elvis Presley's Jungle Room at Graceland, and how it is the Platonic Ideal of the 1970s rec room, and how certain I am that if Elvis had lived only a few more years he would have played D&D there with the Memphis Mafia, because that is so clearly what the room is built for. But it wouldn't have been a dream game, it would have been lame as hell, because Elvis wouldn't DM, he'd get Sonny West or somebody to do it, and Sonny would just totally kiss up to Elvis and give his character 18/00 Strength and 18/00 Charisma and tons of magic items and every other dungeon room would just be elf girls in white cotton panties.

I'm posting a lot, huh? You might think that means I have no work to do... but really it means I have lots of work that I don't want to do. I want somebody to "interview" me!

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[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

elf girls in white cotton panties

I'll be in my bunk.

I got a good answer for my usual robotnik standby interview question, "Why the telephone?," the last time I asked it, so I'll go a little further afield...

If you could only visit FIVE cities for the rest of your life -- that is, all other cities in the world would be forbidden to you to visit personally -- which five cities would those be?

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Also interesting to speculate as to what possible chain of events could make that more than a hypothetical question.

First, I'll say Toronto and Boston, both fine cities, but mostly because so many of my favorite people are there. NYC, a dull choice probably, but L & I have had many great times there, and there's almost nothing you can't do or get there so putting it on the list takes a lot of pressure off my other choices. San Francisco, which admittedly I haven't been to since the days of the Dot Com Gold Rush, but I lived there in the summer of 1998, a perfect thrilling time to be there, and completely fell in love. Finally, Tokyo, which I've never been to, but it's at the top of my list of cities I need to see someday, because, man, Tokyo!

4/5 of those are in North America, so maybe I'm kind of provincial, but here's the thing: I've got nothing against world travel, but America is bottomless. You could spend several lifetime heres and not come close to being done with the place. (I'm assuming that I'm free to visit any non-urban areas between cities. Because I have to be able to go to Wolf Lake, that's non-negotiable, and if the 5 cities needed to fulfil my non-urban access to nature needs I'd have to totally rethink them.)

Your question: you can change your birth date to any year in the 20th century other than the one in which you were born ('75?). Assume roughly similar socio-economic status and all that. What era would you like to have grown up in?

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Your question: you can change your birth date to any year in the 20th century other than the one in which you were born ('75?). Assume roughly similar socio-economic status and all that. What era would you like to have grown up in?

God, that is such a tough question! I like everything modern too much to give it up... maybe I'd be born ten years earlier? But I doubt it.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

You should be born later, like me, so you get even more modern stuff!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't want to be a baby boomer? Leave it To Beaver childhood, free love adolescence, easy employment, cash out before social security collapses? Or you could go later. Be born in 1999 and have no memory of the grotty old 20th century at all.

[bryant]

Boston, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and... crap. New York, yeah, as the utilityman.