| Rotundo | 15 Sep 2022 2:38 p.m. PST |
I am watching Rings of Power, House of Dragons, and The Witcher. Which world would you want to live in if you had to choose. I think I go Tolkien. A little nicer on the whole.My last choice is Westeros. Life is cheap in that place. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 15 Sep 2022 5:27 p.m. PST |
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| Frederick | 15 Sep 2022 6:42 p.m. PST |
Hands down Tolkien – I have also watched all three; not a GoT/House of Dragons fan; Martin specializes in showing people at their worst – in contrast Tolkien has a lot of optimism (and, of course, Dwarfs!) |
| Mr Elmo | 16 Sep 2022 3:48 a.m. PST |
What social strata are we talking? Do I live in Fleabottom or as a subsistence farmer in the Shire? |
| Rotundo | 16 Sep 2022 7:18 a.m. PST |
Mr. Elmo, I went with the fact I am an average joe in the U.S. So, I expect I would be nothing special in thier worlds. I work with my hands, city born, moved to the burbs. I am me just in thier world. |
| robert piepenbrink | 16 Sep 2022 7:20 a.m. PST |
Current TV does nothing for me. Maybe a little less than that. For a fantasy world to live in, Middle Earth followed by Diskworld. It's a close call. For a science fiction world, Leigh Brackett's Mars, with the Hub for second choice. |
 Old Contemptible | 16 Sep 2022 10:22 a.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 16 Sep 2022 1:44 p.m. PST |
Which one has the best pay and benefits for VLSI microchip designers? |
| robert piepenbrink | 16 Sep 2022 2:40 p.m. PST |
Brooding. Truth is, you'd have to throw in an age reset as part of the deal. Otherwise, I'd probably die of old age before I got everything put away again. (OK, in Westeros, I'd die violently and dreadfully. It's the same basic problem.) But for vacation… The University of Wisconsin at Madison. Not as it is--they wouldn't let a known conservative/libertarian past the gates, and we wouldn't want to be let in--but the improved future version in Clifford Simak's Goblin Reservation. Rivendell in the time of Bilbo Baggins. Oxford between the Wars, as Sayers described it in Gaudy Night. Call that one a fantasy version--Oxford not as it was, but as it should have been. The Billiards Club, either side of the Second World War. It's cold and foggy out, but inside the club, the fire's lit, the chairs are comfortable and Jorkens is just starting a story. Fantasy? SF? Adventure? Mystery? No telling with Jorkens. The Host Resort during a convention, c. 1995. A little shabby but still comfortable, and if the carpet is a little worn, it's still beautiful. Someone's playing a piano in the Lobby, and everyone there's a friend. Call it the Twilight Zone version: there's a strong feel of Tim Riley's Bar about the whole thing. Lots of nice places to go as long as you don't mean to stay. As Robert Mitchum explained to John Wayne "we just don't want your kind around here." |
| Zephyr1 | 16 Sep 2022 3:00 p.m. PST |
I don't think they'd let me in. I'd be starting up a mortar & grenade arms industry before too long…  |
 miniMo | 17 Sep 2022 7:49 a.m. PST |
Hyboria, live the Frazetta paintings.
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| etotheipi | 17 Sep 2022 12:50 p.m. PST |
live the Frazetta paintings It would have to come with a year gym membership and and all hills paid (so I could work out for a living), then an age reset (maintaining physical form), then transport to RE Howard's Conan world. :) |
| robert piepenbrink | 17 Sep 2022 4:44 p.m. PST |
I think eto's about covered it. But as with Westeros, you'd have to adopt Amalric's motto of "a short life and a merry one." They're places with some of the shortest adult life expectancies on record, and death by edged weapon, sorcery and dragon fire are rated as "natural causes." |
| CPBelt | 17 Sep 2022 7:28 p.m. PST |
We often have this discussion at home. Narnia is the clear winner. I guess that's because we're born again Christians. |
| etotheipi | 18 Sep 2022 5:12 a.m. PST |
death by edged weapon, sorcery and dragon fire are rated as "natural causes." Hehehe … INLGames has done some custom negotiation card games for organizations (they are a nice structured first step to get people unfamiliar with role playing into a better roleplaying training experience, as well as better learning modality for some things than free roleplaying is). I feel the urge to make a fantasy version of insurance negotiations now … |
| etotheipi | 18 Sep 2022 5:25 a.m. PST |
Narnia is the clear winner. Counting on not being a minotaur, wolf, etc. ..? |
| Dn Jackson | 19 Sep 2022 9:11 p.m. PST |
Tolkien for me. Far more optimistic than GoT, which made me ill to watch. Never made it past the first season. Never saw/read The Witcher. Narnia would be great as well. |
| SeattleGamer | 20 Sep 2022 2:10 a.m. PST |
Tolkien for sure. Not even close. |
| arthur1815 | 20 Sep 2022 4:09 a.m. PST |
Tolkien if I must choose a Fantasy world.
But I would really prefer to live in the London of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, as imagined by Arthur Conan Doyle, or the world of Hercule Poirot, as imagined by Agatha Christie. |
| robert piepenbrink | 14 Aug 2023 8:00 a.m. PST |
Rotundo, you wrote "Rings of Power" but you also wrote "Tolkien." Please decide. There's a story of Pope's Illiad--"very pretty, Mr Pope, but you mustn't call it Homer." |
| Lapsang | 25 Aug 2023 5:18 a.m. PST |
75% Saltpetre, 15% Charcoal, 10% Sulphur…if I can remember that then I just might survive. |
