What system/background/story would you pick if forced?

[randomhero00]

If suddenly a creepy dude radiating immense power appears in your room and says,
"say now, what do you choose to live in permanently?"

It can be anything, a book, a system (DND, Mage, Werewolf)....

I'd have to go with bleach

bleach /nerd

It'd just be too cool getting a spiritual sword and working together with it.

[Scarlet-Devil]

Wait, do you mean like to live in or something?

[randomhero00]

Wait, do you mean like to live in or something?

Sorry, yes. To live in permanently.

[Scarlet-Devil]

That's pretty tough, but I suppose I might go with Touhou.

[NichG]

Brave answer: "Wherever you got the power to go between worlds from."

Cautious answer: Some setting where my knowledge would be useful, and immortality is fairly easy to attain. Probably the campaign I'm currently in, since my PC there has the power to receive out of game information 1/game, and would likely be interesting in finding (and unfortunately probably beating up, but not killing) whomever has been talking to him over the aether.

[Ravens_cry]

Probably Star Trek: Next Generation. It is a largely post-scarcity world with insanely advanced medical care and interstellar travel. I don't even have to be a member of Starfleet.

[Tengu_temp]

Pokemon. Exactly like real life, only better because there are wandering pokemans. And if I get bored of training pokemans, I can just return to the internet.

[ThirdEmperor]

Well, no way would I choose WoD, or DnD. Way to many ways to die in both, especially if you're a commoner. Exalted is also a dumb choice, in my opinion, as if you aren't Exalted, your life fails. In most of the videogames I play, life also fails for non-heroes. In the end, I'd say Discworld.

[comicshorse]

As Ravens_ Cry pointed out most fictional settings are only great if you're the hero. Be yourself in most of them and you're fodder for ... well pretty much anybody.
So for me, The Culture. Interstellar travel, the ability to record your personality, immortality, implanted drug glands and pretty much anything you could wish for easily available

[Chess435]

Pokemon. Exactly like real life, only better because there are wandering pokemans. And if I get bored of training pokemans, I can just return to the internet.

Win. Lots to do, high-adventure, little risk of death, and if I ever get too bored......

(Nah, that's probably not appropriate to mention on these forums)

[Salbazier]

Magic The gathering. As planeswalker of course. Better still, old style Planeswalker

[Lycan 01]

Call of Cthulhu or Dark Heresy...

...are on the bottom of my list.

[Ganurath]

First Age of Creation, at least one lifetime before the Usurpation is supposed to occur. The moment I arrive, Nara'o is going to flip out.

[Crossblade]

First answer that came to my head... is not PG 13. So I can't say it on the boards.

Pokemon's a good answer.

Star Wars came to mind before that though, but there is the death issue, even with the advanced tech...

Minecraft would be awesome. If on Peaceful, or I was guaranteed to respawn.
And in multi-player.

Though I suppose the ultimate answer would be "A Utopia".

[Tortiekat]

The Culture. If a GSV ever swings into our solar system, I am so. there. Because really, life should be lived out over 400 years of sampling every pleasure the galaxy has to offer, having a built-in drug delivery system, the occasional change of sex, species, or perspective on the nature of reality. And when you're done, according to the last book, you can upload yourself to Heaven :D

[SilverLeaf167]

Some generic Mutants & Masterminds world. Of course, this thread is kinda useless if we assume you would be just a normal person. And if you're NOT a normal person in M&M, even if you're just PL 3-5, you can get Resurrection for just a fraction of your PP. Not to mention the other practical stuff, like Speed/Flight, Create Object etc.

[Dimers]

Feng Shui. At least there the "commoners" get high levels of butt-kicking.

[Aquillion]

If I get to take the role of one of the 'protagonists?' Which I assume is implied.

Nobilis, probably.

[potatocubed]

Exalted is also a dumb choice, in my opinion, as if you aren't Exalted, your life fails.

Somebody pointed this out a while back on RPGnet: life as a peasant in Exalted sucks, but there's a lot of Exaltation going around and a Lore 8 brain in an Essence 1 body might seem like a pretty decent bet.

[aabicus]

One Over Zero. Experience some really trippy fourth-wall demolishing meta-philosophy, and then

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end it by getting sent right back to the real world.

Plus the 'God' of this universe is totally looking out for his subjects, and is willing to listen to them and alter the reality for them if they make a convincing enough argument. Sounds good to me.

[Totally Guy]

FreeMarket Station. It's a place were even the lowest of society can have a very good life.

[Hazzardevil]

I don't think surviving in dnd is too hard, you just need to mug a sleeping 1st level wizard and sell the spell book and other stuff and you can afford an apprenticship or a good weapon and some armour. Then you can afford to hopefully reach elf lands and become a duskblade.

Now I would choose Eberron as a world, it's at more peace than any other setting,
very few truly barbaric races
and it's easy to join a church.

[The Big Dice]

Probably Star Trek: Next Generation. It is a largely post-scarcity world with insanely advanced medical care and interstellar travel. I don't even have to be a member of Starfleet.

This. It's as close to utopia as I can think of. And just think of the gaming potential of the holodeck.

[Weimann]

First Age of Creation, at least one lifetime before the Usurpation is supposed to occur. The moment I arrive, Nara'o is going to flip out.

I dunno, one lifetime before the Usurpation would be the prime time for completely crazy god-kings to mess you and your country up for fun.

Can I say "this one?" Otherwise, yeah, Pokemon does sound really nice.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Pokemon. Exactly like real life, only better because there are wandering pokemans. And if I get bored of training pokemans, I can just return to the internet.

As long as the Pokemon world stays mostly as it is in the games/anime, I'd have to agree. If it contains all the horror that reading too deeply into them implies, then I'd be pretty worried. But I still think I'd pick Pokemon, either way.

[Tengu_temp]

Somebody pointed this out a while back on RPGnet: life as a peasant in Exalted sucks, but there's a lot of Exaltation going around and a Lore 8 brain in an Essence 1 body might seem like a pretty decent bet.

I really doubt if reading all the Exalted books in the world gives you more than Lore, let's be charitable, 3. You have a broad knowledge about the world, yes, but this knowledge is very shallow and does not include the in-depth working of most elements of Creation. You basically are a walking trivia book.

As long as the Pokemon world stays mostly as it is in the games/anime, I'd have to agree. If it contains all the horror that reading too deeply into them implies, then I'd be pretty worried. But I still think I'd pick Pokemon, either way.

Overanalyzing is overanalyzing, often paired with ignoring and/or misinterpreting some facts of the setting, so I'm not worried. But you know what? If Missingno existed, it'd be my mission to catch it.

[Lord Raziere]

"any world where I'm omnipotent" is my obvious answer.

[Quietus]

Hmmm...

D&D would be tempting, simply because I know how the rules work. However, I've seen one too many bad die rolls end a character prematurely.

nWoD : Mage would be delicious, because I'd have all of that WORLD ALTERING MIND BENDING POWER! However, I'm already pretty far off the deep end. Giving me the ability to make my imagination real... probably not a great idea.

Pokemon I'm liking. Similar enough to the real world in terms of lethality, plus, you know, catching and training monsters! Fun!

Alternatively, Maplestory - although I'd hate certain aspects, like dealing with hackers, there's a couple big boosts. First : Death is never permanent. Second : I can make damn sure I keep getting stronger, because of the first point. Training forever!

But the real question would be, do I get transported into these worlds? Do I have the ability to switch back and forth between them and the real world? Do the rules of that world simply begin to apply in the real world? Can I take anyone with me? Because if I had to leave my girlfriend behind, no matter how cool the world I could go to would be, I'd stay right here.

[kamikasei]

Some generic Mutants & Masterminds world. Of course, this thread is kinda useless if we assume you would be just a normal person. And if you're NOT a normal person in M&M, even if you're just PL 3-5, you can get Resurrection for just a fraction of your PP. Not to mention the other practical stuff, like Speed/Flight, Create Object etc.

Yes, this. Assuming we get to actually have powers etc. if they're available. I've foregone enough totally sweet powers and abilities for PL 10 M&M characters because they were exploits or just ridiculously unbalanced that if I could get access to them myself, well...

Failing that, yes, I think the Culture. Since that in many ways opens up the possibility of doing whatever else I want, with few limits.

[SurlySeraph]

Something (post-)cyberpunk, because being premed would be so much more interesting in a world with that kind of technology. Probably whatever William Gibson's setting is called, because the magic in Shadowrun annoys me and Eclipse Phase is a bit too bleak. Or the setting of Snow Crash, that's a pretty nice world.

I really doubt if reading all the Exalted books in the world gives you more than Lore, let's be charitable, 3. You have a broad knowledge about the world, yes, but this knowledge is very shallow and does not include the in-depth working of most elements of Creation. You basically are a walking trivia book.

You know about the Great Curse. You know about the Sidereals. You know that the Immaculate teachings are mostly bull. You know where the Scarlet Empress is. You know about the Reclamation. You know about the Usurpation. You know an awful lot about the Deathlords. You know an awful lot about the First Age. You know that Abyssals and Infernals used to be Solars, and how they got that way. Maybe Lore 3 with three specialties in Stuff No One Outside Yu-Shan Except Neverborn and Primordials Should Know, but really high Lore sounds like an easy enough way to model it.