#18: Everything is Hungry

[RPGnet Columns]

http://www.rpg.net/columns/campaignt...toybox18.phtml

Summary:

In D&D, everything can kill you; now imagine if our world was that deadly.

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[Craig Oxbrow]

An example currently in the cinemas, I hear: Transformers 2 takes a scene from the first film and runs with it.

Spoiler: In sblock since it isn't in all the trailers

Remember the "mobile phone gets zapped and turns into a tiny psycho robot" scene? In the new film, a bunch of appliances in somebody's kitchen get zapped and go berserk.

[Heronymus]

Given the warping of your previous idea that I'm stealing, this is also going to be a big part of my Animal Planet game. Thanks!

[DigitalSentience]

I'll defer to those with a deeper grasp of economics, but in a post-apocalyptic scenario, would paper money really still be valued by the survivors?

On the flip side, I could totally see a reversion to gold as the preferred medium of exchange, which has some amusing parallels with Gygaxian D&D.

[SteveD]

Originally Posted by DigitalSentience

I'll defer to those with a deeper grasp of economics, but in a post-apocalyptic scenario, would paper money really still be valued by the survivors?

On the flip side, I could totally see a reversion to gold as the preferred medium of exchange, which has some amusing parallels with Gygaxian D&D.

As with D&D, there'd be a lot of "forget the cash, somebody get the curtains!"

[Craig Oxbrow]

Originally Posted by SteveD

As with D&D, there'd be a lot of "forget the cash, somebody get the curtains!"

Of course in D&D the curtains will eat you too. In EIH this is harder to excuse, but automatically-controlled blinds could be a pain.

[CBlackthorne]

Originally Posted by DigitalSentience

I'll defer to those with a deeper grasp of economics, but in a post-apocalyptic scenario, would paper money really still be valued by the survivors?

In a JEREMIAH D20 game, our DM let us all start with a pillowcase full of $100 bills, just to make the point that it was only paper now.

[Wyvern76]

In Diane Duane's So You Want to be a Wizard, the protagonists accidentally travel to a nightmarish copy of NYC, which is populated by sentient objects - mostly cars, but they also encounter a helicopter, an elevator, a fire hydrant that eats pigeons like a frog eats flies, and a keyhole that bites one someone who touches it.

Wyvern

[SteveD]

Originally Posted by Wyvern76

In Diane Duane's So You Want to be a Wizard, the protagonists accidentally travel to a nightmarish copy of NYC, which is populated by sentient objects - mostly cars, but they also encounter a helicopter, an elevator, a fire hydrant that eats pigeons like a frog eats flies, and a keyhole that bites one someone who touches it.

Nothing new under the sun, eh?