I hereby reincarnate the "Just imagine..." thread on the new forums...
EDIT: I'd just like to note that I would greatly appreciate it if the "Imagine..." thread was kept in a mildly serious light, so that it might prove useful. Thank you for appreciating my intentions...
"Imagine a world where alignment is completely opposite.
Imagine a world where the gods walk among the people.
Imagine a world where humans are only a legend.
Imagine a world ruled by good devils.
Imagine a world made completely of plants.
Imagine a world made completely of city.
Imagine a world where the very surface had been split between law and chaos.
Imagine a world formed out of dreams.
Just imagineâ,¬Â¦"
Note: The above were "borrowed" from the user silvercatmoonpaw of the WoTC boards.
Imagine a world made out of cheese.
Imagine a world where all PCs are awakened animals.
Imagine a world where robot dinosaurs rule...
Imagine a world on the inside of a sphere
Imagine a world where evil won the great wars
Imagine a world without night
Imagine a world without day
Imagine a world without trees
Imagine a world that appears to be 'normal'...
glad to see this thread is catching on here...
Imagine a world where everyone has 3 hands
Imagine a world where dragons are as common as humans
Imagine a world where dragons are small and kept like housecats
Imagine a world where he world is the sun of it's system
Imagine a world where the oceans are made of liquid glass
imagine a world where there are glass mountains
Imagine a world where Nobby Nobbs is royalty.
Imagine a world where oozes are intelligent.
Imagine a world without chocolate.
Imagine a world where arcane casters rule, and clerics are outlawed
Imagine a world where chocolate is essential to life
Image a world where round-house-kicks are the only form of weapon.
Imagine a world where the Beared One is King.
Imagine a world where Paradise is a physical place you can find.
Imagine a world where the seas boil.
Imagine a world where Chuck Norris is an angry gnome.
Imagine a world where Adam West is a demented halfling.
Imagine a world without subtlety
Imagine a world where empathy was carried over the internet
Imagine a world where pride, shame, and honor meant nothing
Imagine a world where half-orcs served as emperors.
Imagine a world where plane-shifting was as easy as stepping outside.
Imagine a world without physical limitations.
Imagine a world where power was to sing.
Imagine a world where everyone was dead.
Imagine a world where the world was literally in black and white.
Imagine a world where plants ruled.
Imagine a world where the only feature was a single tower.
-Elven Doritos
Edited for Content
A few from Herodotus:
Imagine a world with domesticated giant ants.
Imagine a world full of very small people.
Imagine a world where men eat other men.
Imagine a world where men eat only one single plant.
Imagine a world where people admit when they're wrong and apologize.
Imagine a world where nobody had to eat.
Imagine a world where fire didn't consume, but still produced heat.
Imagine a world ripped to pieces and suspended in a void
Imagine a world devoid of land and filled with air
Imagine a world where dimensions shift with every turn
Imagine a world entwined around itself
Imagine a world of ever-shifting landscapes
Imagine a world of toxic seas
Imagine a world where water and air have exchanged places
Imagine a world where humans are under control of animals
Imagine a world completely surrounded by a net of suns
Imagine a world where one can touch the sun and moon
Imagine a world where machinery is natural, and nature is man-made
Imagine a world inversed, land on the inside and nothing but soil and rock stretching for eternity. The sun sits dead center of the "planet", and regularly folds in unto itself to enable nightfall.
Imagine a world where the gods serve the people.
Imagine a world where milk is blue.
Imahine a world with no iron.
Cymro: Actually, in the long run the gods really DO serve the people...people invent gods / worship gods (depending on what world) so they can be comforted with the lie / promise that there will be an afterlife.
I'm not atheist or religious, so don't start pointing fingers!
we have a philosophy thread for this argument, before it starts.If anyone wants to debate it of course... Rerail!
Imagine a world where there was no sound
Imagine a world where everything looked like anime
imagine a world where people existed, but human nature did not
Imagine a world where bunnies carry uzis.
Imagine a world where squirrels run the government.
Imagine a world without smells.
Imagine a world where bunnies serve oozo
Imagine a world where the government runs while squirrels don't
Imagine a world where the oceans were whiskey.
Imagine a world where there were no tears.
Imagine a world without religion.
Imagine a world where death was the beginning and birth the end.
Imagine a world where gravity pushed things apart rather than attract them.
Imagine a world where the only language was music.
imagine a world without writer's block
imagine a world where communism was succesful
Imagine a world where everything copied itself by asexual reprouction
Imagine a world without "just imagine..." threads !lol
A few more out of the classical canon:
Imagine a world where people were both genders.
Imagine a world where all people had two minds.
Imagine a world where heroes became gods.
QuoteImagine a world where Chuck Norris is an angry gnome.
Imagine a world where Adam West is a demented halfling.
Imagine?
Imagine a world without sarcasm *shudder*
imagine a world where there is no such thing as temperature
imagine a world where all wishes came true
Imagine a world where everyone was truly happy all the time
Imagine a world where water was mined
imagine a world where kobolds ruled
Imagine a world where fire didn't hurt
Imagine a world where every rock could talk
Imagine a world where the SciFi channel did not show crap on Saturdays.
Quote from: CYMROImagine a world where the SciFi channel did not show crap on Saturdays.
Here here! Anyway...
Imagine a world where the only living creatures were dragons
Imagine a world where all plants were gods
Imagine a world where turkeys could breathe fire (what?)
Imagine a world where everyone worshipped turtles !turtle
Imagine a world where the gods could only look on
Imagine a world where pixies moved mountains
A few more:
Imagine a world where mountains drifted on the winds.
Imagine a world where vengeance was everything.
Imagine a world where the gods had frequent mortal lovers, and their progeny ruled the lands.
Imagine a world where the SciFi channel showed great scifi, like Dr. Who and Red Dwarf and Farscape, instead of crap like Ghost Hunters and Ripleys.
Imagine a world where the Sci-Fi channel actually made a decent movie.
Quote from: SenkennomeiImagine a world where the Sci-Fi channel actually made a decent movie.
Talk about living in a fantasy world.....
Imagine a world where Harvey Birdman is your best bet for legal counsel. :chophead:
Imagine a world where everyone could use psionics
Imagine a world where psionics were the only "magic"
Imagine a world where any intelligent species was treated as a citizen
Imagine a world ruled by a (flaming) penguin aristocracy
Quote from: Natural 20Imagine a world ruled by a (flaming) penguin aristocracy
Been watching "So Says I" by The Shins a bit much, have we? :)
Imagine a world where everything I say that doesn't make sense, also doesn't have any logical reason.
Imagine a world where gods worshipped mortals.
Imagine a world where time flowed backward.
Imagine a world where everyone had their own theme music.
(http://webzoom.freewebs.com/red_valor/Funny/Thread%20Necro.bmp)
Imagine a world where I had as much free time as ElDo.
Quote from: Natural 20Imagine a world where any intelligent species was treated as a citizen
I've been imagining that for about a year...
Imagine a five-dimensional world (and I mean that in the sense where none of the five dimensions are "folded").
Quote from: TúrinImagine a five-dimensional world (and I mean that in the sense where none of the five dimensions are "folded").
:eew: We would look all wormy...
Imagine a world where ninjas did not kill families... :ninja1:
Imagine a world where pi = 3.0
Imagine a world where pi = 3.5
I ran an adventure in a five-dimensional demiplane once, but I don't recommend it. Whenever the party came to an intersection, interpreting the map became a serious pain in the ass.
Imagine a world that is entirely composed of a dungeon complex.
Imagine a dungeon complex that is entirely composed of worlds.
Imagine a world made of dragon poo...
Imagine a world where I RULE SUPREME
Imagine a world where everyone always knew one specific person...
Imagine a world with no sun, only five glowing moons.
Imagine a world where people did what they were told.
Imagine a world where people didn't do what they were told.
Imagine a world where cannibalism was the accepted and "civilized" course of action after death.
Imagine a world where vermind had developed into rationalizing beings, and apes had stayed in the trees.
Imagine a race where the people reproduced through division, like a cell.
Imagine a culture where prisoners were hunted for sport.
Imagine a world where the laws of physics were subjective.
Imagine a kingdom where heroes were the lawmakers, judges, and executioners.
Imagine a world where I did not derail threads.
Imagine a world where everyone loved everyone (Philos).
Imagine a world where everyone hated everyone (Xenophobia).
Quote from: IshmaylImagine a kingdom where heroes were the lawmakers, judges, and executioners.
Imagine if they got that way by overthrowing the monarchy and becoming roving dictators, therefore heros become the feared and hated villians...with their only opposition being a lone lich, whos actions will save the people from the tyranny of adventurers.
Imagine a world where penguins flew...
Imagine a world where inspiration could be purchased...
Imagine a world where Outsiders were displayed in zoos...
Imagine a world where the "lesser races" were displayed in zoos...
Imagine a world without dragons *gasp*
Imagine a world where someone would make a decent free Content Management System...
Imagine a world where you could actually be older than your parents.
Attention folks! The user who inspired this thread has finally arried at the CBG! Silvercatmoonpaw is in the building ladies and gentlemen!
imagine a world where the letter V did not exsist, whatsoever.
We wouldn't have Xeviat or Velox :(
but im sure wed like xeiat and elox just as much....
interestingly enough, we wouldnt have xeviat or velox if we didnt have the letter X, too....
Or the letter "e", for that matter.
Imagine a world where everyone had heat-vision.
combine the two imaginings in that, wouldnt everybody in the world have "hat-vision"?
nah, they'd probly be smart and re-name the power "hot-vision".
just imagine....
a world where everybody has hat-vision.
it works just like true seeing, except for only hats can be seen this way.
Imagine world with nothing but shrimp.
And then you find out about this factory that produces apple pie every week?
Quote from: Natural 20Attention folks! The user who inspired this thread has finally arried at the CBG! Silvercatmoonpaw is in the building ladies and gentlemen!
:drunk:
:happybd:
I'm so happy. I got quoted!
If no one minds, I'll do one of those "author explains their inpiration for the great work", even if it
does seem self-agrandizing.
The whole intent of the signature was to showcase my view that Wizards kept making settings and setting material that seems blatantly uncreative (and, just in case, I came on the RPG scene during 3.5). The old "I could do better than that" type of feeling. Ever since I've had ideas out all my orifices. This signature just showcases a few of them to try and get people to at least
think a bit outside their frighteningly tiny box:
"Imagine a world where alignment is completely opposite." = I can't quite remember what this means. I've never been a fan of the D&D alignment system because it attempts to define good and evil. One of the things that has struck me about good is that it has to follow rules, while evil is much more free. This may be when I had the idea that "evil" represented being free from the system, and "good" meant being enslaved to it.
"Imagine a world where the gods walk among the people." = This one is basically self-explanatory: why have distant gods? The D&D mentality that gods are real and are omni-lots 'o things and intervene in everything in mortal lives yet don't live on the Material plane just breaks the fun. If gods are distant then there should be a question as to whether or not they're real (Eberron). For gods walking among the people I concieve of a world where the gods aren't all-powerful but are somehow different from mortals and have some small aspect of the world they have to watch over, and actually have to
earn worship instead of commanding it.
"Imagine a world where humans are only a legend." = I have to admit up front that I have it in for our species. In real life. It furthermore irks me that humans are given as the "most adpatable race", all literary examples be damned. So I'm always looking for a way to do away with them. Making them a legend seems like fun because then you have to enter a world where
you would be one of those mythical creatures everyone talks about, as if you were a fairy in this world.
"Imagine a world ruled by good devils." = Again, I try to break alignment. Would devils, who are put out as very lawful and organized, really be that bad as rulers if they were good? Besides, they look cool.
"Imagine a world made completely of plants." = The visual image is stunning: you're standing on a giant tree branch which connects itself to many more branches and to trunks of other trees, the world is a giant forest around you, if you look over the edge of a tree branch the trunks of the trees extend down as far as you can see and anyone has ever gone. All of a sudden there isn't ground between you and a third dimension of adventure.
"Imagine a world made completely of city." = This is my personal favorite. I came up with this before I'd ever heard of Ravinica, and they're nothing alike. My city-planet is actually more like that dungeon planet someone came up with, where everything, mountains, canyons, plains, is just part of one massive building that extends in all the way through the planet. And it's not just blocky dungeon: every mile was designed architecturally by some long-dead race, and now it's inhabited by races that came from who-knows-where. No more needing to justify dungeons to crawl, and they don't have to be underground any more.
"Imagine a world where the very surface had been split between law and chaos." = I've always thought that Law and Chaos were actually easier to justify than Good and Evil, and this world makes use of associations with each such as ice and fire. This idea mostly came out of trying to think how I could make greater use of Sandstorm and Frostburn, but I think that it would make for a great alignment conflict campaign.
"Imagine a world formed out of dreams." = I just put this one in for fun. But if you use it you can justify any odd terrain or whatnot that you want.
Here are some more I've come up with since then:
Imagine a world protected by good demons.
Imagine a world that exists inside the remains of a god's house.
Imagine a plane made up of the inside of buildings.
Imagine a world where the mortals overthrew the gods and decided to worship the material world.
Imagine a world where magical coal has inducted in a steam age without pollution.
Imagine a world where nature transformed the humanoids into anthropomrophic animals.
Imagine a city-sized plane that is the only conncection to any other, and that contains all the elemental planes within it.
Imagine a world where Tiamat is Good and mother to all.
Imagine a world where all the races are descended from Magical Beasts.
Imagine a world where the gods were imprisoned in the spheres of the heavens [planets].
Imagine a world where alignment encompassed philosophical affiliations or psychological assessment (id vs. ego).
Imagine a world where heaven is a physical place... a citadel watching humanity.
Imagine a world that has 86 days to live.
Imagine a world where radioctive frogs worship enormous fungus creatures.
Imagine a world where every creature with 30+ hit dice wasn't necessarily a god.
Imagine a world where dead and sleeping gods are used as a source of clean electricity.
I'm so happy that this thread is being revived... So happy... *tear*
It was revived because this is what makes RPGs worthwhile.
Imagine a world where magic is not inhibited by metal, but stems from it.
Imagine a world where beauty is prized above all else - even life.
Imagine a world where the souls of the dead accompany and advise their descendants.
Imagine a world where human is the most prized meat of all.
Imagine a world languishing under a totalitarian regime, ruled with an iron fist by an eight-year-old girl.
Imagine a world where the Gods had recently been slain... By an orc! (Yay, orcs!)
Imagine a world where Crit doesn't get all mushy when his threads are popular.
Imagine a world without cabbage. The horror!!!
Imagine a world covered in a perpetual thunderstorm, not always raining, but always waiting...
Imagine a world where Orcs ruled the seas
Imagine a world where Humans were kept as pets
Imagine a world filled with holes that went through to the other side
Imagine a world where magic was given as medecine in pseudo-pharmacies
Imagine a world where magic was the self-correcting Jungian psyche applied to the universe.
Imagine a theocracy that was anti-divine magic.
Imagine a world ruled by intelligent magic items.
Imagine a world where every magic spell would cause a monster to be born as a form of magic backlash.
Imagine a world where Orcs aren't awesome (shock! horror!)
Imagine a world where the colour purple is illegal.
Imagine a world where there really are rivers and lakes of blood.
Imagine a world where the sun is blue and the sky is yellow.
Imagine a world where the trees uproot themselves at night and dance with one another.
Imagine a world where A.I.'s ruled every nation; no more politicians
Imagine a world where people are born to and raised by machines
Imagine a world where immortality could be bought
Imagine a world where executions and combat were televised entertainment
Imagine a world where global executive power was like jury duty
Imagine a world where a persons soul was something that had to be earned through work, study, and reflection
Imagine a world where the good were slaves in heaven and the evil were free in hell
Quote from: Velox121Imagine a world where immortality could be bought
Yay for Catholocism!
ewwwwwwww
QuoteImagine a world where the good were slaves in heaven and the evil were free in hell.
Me likey this world!
just imagine....
a world where magic was a natural force, and not supernatural in any sense/
Imagine a world that isn't quite there. The entire (or at least, a good portion of) surface of the planet, or plane, is under the effect of a massive illusion spell. The mountains, trees, rivers, animals can be touched, but are merely the illusion of their real selves.
Then, if you want some additional options, imagine that the magic powering this spell began to falter in some places, possibly with a gradual fading effect all over. It would be a pretty big shock to realize the environment you've lived in all your life was merely a construct.
This could even be done in d20 Future - just substitute the spell with some kind of powerful holographic field.
Realm Weaver, that's a real juicy idea.
*yoink*
Consider it stolen.
What is "real"? How do you define "real"? If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Don't take the red potion.
QuoteDon't take the red potion.
Oops...too late...
Imagine a world where all you had was numbers.
Imagine then being introduced to i.
-Imagine a world where Pi = 2
-Imagine Snakes on top of Planes
-Imagine a world where angry goats debated contemporary philosophy inside a giant cheese dome with tupee wearing flamingos in every city.
QuoteImagine a world where angry goats debated contemporary philosophy inside a giant cheese dome with tupee wearing flamingos in every city.
Free admission?
You'd have to first submit a made-up quote that is generally confusing and can be debated on its meaning for quite some time. Until it's meaning is decided, you have free admission, and at which point, you must submit another. Common sense, really.
Imagine a world where magic items adventure and people are traded in for upgrades.
Imagine a world where magic is its own intelligent force, and it's not about to bend to anyone's will.
Imagine a world where money grew on trees...
Quote from: Natural 20Imagine a world where money grew on trees...
Money does grow on trees; it's paper.
Imagine a world where gold pieces grew on trees :P
Quote from: SilvercatMoonpawImagine a world where magic items adventure and people are traded in for upgrades.
Imagine a world where magic is its own intelligent force, and it's not about to bend to anyone's will.
Nice, I like it.
Whether or not it was so intended, the first makes a pithy commentary on the sad disvaluing of enchanted items as no more special than a drop in Diablo, when such an item not only mythically represents some grand history, but physically often represents the culmination of someone's life's work, only to be casually tossed aside.
Quote from: Tenacious WixQuote from: Natural 20Imagine a world where money grew on trees...
Money does grow on trees; it's paper.
That's so 1990! Everybody knows money is a bunch of electrons on the banks' mainframes.
Quote from: Natural 20Imagine a world where money grew on trees...
"Paper" money in most contries is usually fabric (cf. US, EU) or polymers (cf. Austrailia, Brazil, Romania).
Imagine a world...
Where bananas and cabbages lived side by side, and lawyers didn't exist, where happiness ruled and justice was done (mainly because of the lack of lawyers.)
Quote from: Phoenix KnightQuote from: SilvercatMoonpawImagine a world where magic items adventure and people are traded in for upgrades.
Imagine a world where magic is its own intelligent force, and it's not about to bend to anyone's will.
Nice, I like it.
Whether or not it was so intended, the first makes a pithy commentary on the sad disvaluing of enchanted items as no more special than a drop in Diablo, when such an item not only mythically represents some grand history, but physically often represents the culmination of someone's life's work, only to be casually tossed aside.
Off Topic: I agree. There
are rules for magic items that increase in power with the character, but both require more than should be needed. I came up with the idea because I realized that if magic items could be intelligent then they could have their own motives to adventure.
Imagine a world invaded by elves from space who can only survive in the huge cities of an exitinct culture, where every humans is a slave but each has a super power.
Imagine a world where people felt OK coming up with anthropomorphic animal races.
Imagine a world where destiny was an immutable force, and the fate of everyone was predecided. [insert PC's here]
Imagine a world where everything was a game that could be restarted whenever the gods decided.
Imagine a world where you could "save game" before making any changes, just in case.....
Imagine a world where you walked on air, swam in fire, got burned by water, and breathed earth.
Imagine a world where teamugs are enslaved to drink coffee from.
Imagine a world where no one ever died.
Imagine a world where wounds will seal shut in seconds, and only old age would cause death
Imagine a world where every body arose as a flesh hungry zombie, and the more great things the person did in life, the more powerful they would be in death.
imagine a world directly ruled by a group of evil gods.
Imagine a world where the oceans had dried up, forming salt deserts.
Imagine a world that was alive, and hungered for the flesh of the living.
Imagine a world where the sun never shone
Imagine a world ruled by awakened animals, enslaving humans.
Imagine a world where people revived threads that had been inactive for over a month because they could
Oh noes IMAGINE THE BUMPAGE!