@KorvinStarmast I have a d20 like that as a d5. No clue who made it.

@RevenantBacon Hot topic in history class— would Renaissance violence in the streets solve current American social problems

@BardicWizard I mean, the French seemed to make their revolutions work...

Three kids say it would, 14ish say no, and me and about 6 others won’t answer yet

@BardicWizard the biggest problem with that opinion is that in renaissance times you could reasonably expect to stand against a guardsman with your pitchfork. These days the powers that be have significantly more tools with which to not fight fair

@G.Moylan The year 1848 called and wants to have a quiet word.

I really like my history teacher and class (but don’t tell him that)

@RevenantBacon My wife says yes, but not with canadian bacon, I say "if you like it" and I have two friends at work who are vehemently opposed. When we do the office pizza run once per month, I make sure that they are accounted for.

@G.Moylan sure people have guns, but if recent actions are anything to go by, the police/government just doesn't fight fair. Heck, look at Hong Kong.

@KorvinStarmast ok the February revolution didn't go well

@G.Moylan Their job is to exert control, rather than foment chaos. (Wait, am I thinking to much about the old Get Smart TV show, with Chaos and Control being opposed?)

@KorvinStarmast That reminds me of Matt Colville's take on alignment, how instead of Law and Evil we should be talking about Order and Chaos

@G.Moylan he had a very interesting talk about that in the context of Dune

@G.Moylan Law/Chaos is roughly Order/Chaos if we look at Moorcock's Elric books, is that where he's coming from?

@KorvinStarmast let me find the video. It was more that people approach the word Law with certain preconceived notions that skew our interpretation of what "law" is actually supposed to mean in the context of alignment

@G.Moylan Civilization versus the Wilderness is roughly what Poul Anderson and OD&D had it as ... with a variety of exceptions to that simple explanation

(The Fey being creatures of the Wilderness ....)

@KorvinStarmast he mentions that. I'm checking his videos, should have a link here shortly

@doppelgreener Ditto. (The Medieval Low-Orbit Ion Cannon.)

@RevenantBacon that's because it's a winning combo =)

@nitsua60 ooh, I designed a space station in D&D once. It’s the cornerstone of Neverron and the reason for the entire world existing.

My friends/gaming group, the first time they saw this: “what the h*ck is that? Why did you do that? Also how? And why does it say PLANET?????”

@BardicWizard Not to scale?

Not one bit

It is the reason I can recite the rocket equation by heart though

And, on second thought, why I am banned from spending my free time trying to break D&D

@MikeQ That scene was so h*ckin' creepy for me.

Oh it's very creepy. From what I understand, most pop culture references to it are meant as parody.

@AncientSwordRage I've been slowly backfilling a lot of stuff I'm the right "age" to know, but the wrong class/location/etc demographic for. It's kinda fascinating how much "popular" culture is actually a very specific and relatively small audience.

(I've mentioned before that a lot of my childhood media touchstones would lead people to think I'm rather older than my physical age.)

lol

@BESW same

Star Trek and fibercrafts chief among them, so much that my parents called me a 300 year old in a teen’s body

@BESW yeah it's a weird one. I especially dislike when people exclude others for not being part of that audience

(You can tell I didn't get much sleep because I forgot what kind of markdown fails on line breaks.)

@AncientSwordRage On the other hand, it did mean that I could lift whole characters and stories for my games and my peers wouldn't notice the references.

And I have all these amazing films to watch, or as an adult to choose not to watch.

@BESW what’s the best plot/character you lifted from something else? Mine’s the human rogue/wizard Aria est Rebelle of house Carmen, a thief in red. Nobody ever got it

"Best" how? Most obscure, most beloved by players?

Your favorite, I suppose

Hooom. [ponders]

I've really enjoyed it whenever I bring Enchanted Forest character/plot/setting into a game. I once ran an explicitly Enchanted Forest campaign too, that was great.

@BESW I absolutely love those books. I wanted to be Cimorene when I grew up (when I was 5 or 6 I think)

I also put the wombat society from Digger into a setting, that was fun. It was a high-magic D&D-derived campaign and wombats are deeply skeptical about the usefulness of both magic and gods. The culture shock gave the players whiplash.

Captain's Fancy Valentine Sweeheart from Skin Horse was a ton of fun to play; she was checking up on @doppelgreener's character and making sure her placement was good, so she did a ride-along on a mission and wound up out-red-taping a hell dimension.

I really liked the character interactions with the other PCs there.

Those sound fun. One of the ones I did that players liked was the time they ran into the OOTS characters talking about 3e stuff ... when we were playing 5e

I've mentioned that I use Doctor Who and Scooby Doo plots for my horror games.

I had a character I never got to play, who was inspired by Moses from Attack the Block.

I’d use Star Trek but the last time that happened 2 players killed the energy being from Encounter at Farpoint.

In one round

She was a teen from the block who got Called be a Knight of the New Round Table in modern Britain.

Most of my PCs at least start based on a fictional character or a real person I know; eg Fiametta from the Gondoliers, Aline from the Sorcerer, the aforementioned Aria that’s really just Carmen Sandiego with a neutral alignment, and Clara Sugarplum, come to mind

Ah, here we go. Dame Miriam Blake, Knight of the New Round Table.

@BardicWizard because it is not a single player game, probably ...

@BESW That’s cool. I found another good one that I played once: Cosmo de Medici (yes, the Renaissance dude, as my classmates call him)

Heheh.

I once set a campaign in a loosely Florence-like city, drawing on my art history classes.

...actually I did that a couple of times.

After a couple years worth of art history with a professor who is reluctant to talk about anything outside Renaissance Italy, you wind up with a lot of weird worldbuilding tools.

I did that with Islamic Spain last year; the players were trying to repel the Crusades

...I once put Rick's Café Américain, from Casablanca, in a campaign.

Nice

I build settings for fun, but never get to play in a lot of them. Most of them are historical/fictional but twisted and turned until nobody thinks they’re references

My last D&D campaign was loosely inspired by the Punic Wars, but I can't claim credit for the idea; I'm quite sure the 4e devs were using the Punic Wars as a model for the Arkhosia/Bael Turath conflict and I just made it more explicit.

@BESW I really, really enjoyed that.

I liked that I had another character looking out for mine, just to make sure things were okay. :D

I loved doing that, yeah! Stellata was Sweetheart's reason for being there and Stellata had... never really had that kind of "I'm here for you" before.