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| Tombo |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 15:11:13
This is always a fun discussion topic: "What would you do if you became super-rich?" I told my buddies at work (who used to play D&D until we got too busy with other stuff) that I would start a D&D campaign (me as DM) where every experience point that their character earned would earn them $1 (from my pocket). Of course I would have a sushi chef (oxymoron?) prepare our meals and snacks while we played.
Mod edit: Decided to move the thread to a slightly more appropriate locale. |
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| The Red Walker |
Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 13:16:02
First: thing I would do is set up an Irrevocable trust of sufficent size to be perpetual and self-sustainable.
Second: make Alaundo the beneficiary of said trust, with the understand that he just keep doing what he does here, but draws a stipend large enough that Keeping up the 'keep is all he has to do.
Third: place one condition on the trust: Alaundo must comission a masterwork Hamster wheel to keep our little mischief maker occupied
P.S. We might even entertain the thought of expanding access to the Calishite Dancing Girls beyond just those who reach Master of Realms Lore.......but thenwe probably just have a good laugh and leave it alone! |
| Jakk |
Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 06:17:59
quote:
Originally posted by Icelander
I'd also buy the rights to the Realms and ask Ed to work exclusively on projects that interested me. Unsurprisingly, those would all be pre-Spellplague and most of them would feature a minimum of random fight-scenes and a lot of character development and intrigue. I'd also pay good money to see a 256-page book on trade in the Realms. Politics and affairs of state would be a close second (actually, they're the same thing in different costumes).
Amen! I'd also get a big book on Cormyr by Ed (as big as he wants to make it) and another big book on Tethyr, Amn, and Calimshan ("Lands of Intrigue" as the title, of course) by Steven Schend, who was at least the primary writer on the 2nd edition boxed set... and I'd get Rob Salvatore to do a new big book on the Bloodstone Lands... title obvious. And yes, these would all be non-Sellplague (forget "pre-"; I'd retcon it out of existence; already done so plausibly, although I'm just ignoring it in my current campaign because we're still continuing a storyline begun twelve years ago under 2E rules) and 3.5 ruleset-based. I'd also get Paul Jaquays to elaborate on those thirteen five-sided evil-looking pyramids he put under the ruins of Ascore (see FR5, "The Savage Frontier"). That's the biggest hole in Realmslore in the North, if you ask me... apart from the ultimate fate of Myth Adofaer.
And then... I'd get Ed to develop Anchorome and Katashaka the way *he* envisioned them. I like Zeb Cook's Kara-Tur and Jeff Grubb's Zakhara, and of course I'd sign them on to do 3.5-compatible updates to both settings. And in all cases, I'd hire our very own Markustay and Patrakis to do the large-scale cartography. If you haven't checked out their world map projects, *do so*... these guys are good. Best of all, it's pre-Spellplague, so everything looks the way it should. 
And finally (for now), I'd get Brian R. James to expand his Grand History project... I'm thinking in the neighborhood of 320 to 384 pages. I'd like to extend the named years forward to 1800 and back to around -800 or so; I'm already working on that. Events in the late 1370's and onward will change, some slightly, others substantially. Ed would be onboard for the revision phase, of course; it *is* his baby, after all, and without him, the Realms would not exist at all.
Okay... this post got about twice as long as I had intended... but it's a wish list, right?  |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 05:28:06
quote:
Originally posted by Aravine
Mods, I hate to tell you how to do your job, but ever since I became one these things bother me.
is this the appropriate shelf for this topic?
I'd not even noticed where it was...  'Tis now relocated. |
| Aravine |
Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 04:20:15
Mods, I hate to tell you how to do your job, but ever since I became one these things bother me.
is this the appropriate shelf for this topic? |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 30 Sep 2008 : 20:49:41
quote:
Originally posted by Icelander
I beg pardon for my too bold presumption and for lecturing, which I'm told I do overmuch.
It's fine, pardon granted. |
| Icelander |
Posted - 30 Sep 2008 : 00:32:39
quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I wasn't trying to make any great point about economics, I was just agreeing with Lord Lysander that if you are posting here, odds are you are already quite well off compared with many other people in the world.
I beg pardon for my too bold presumption and for lecturing, which I'm told I do overmuch.
I quite agree with the fact that most people posting here are well off by comparison to vast swathes of humanity. |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 29 Sep 2008 : 23:52:27
I wasn't trying to make any great point about economics, I was just agreeing with Lord Lysander that if you are posting here, odds are you are already quite well off compared with many other people in the world. |
| Icelander |
Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 23:54:26
quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Lysander
Guys anyone being able to be in candlekeep means that he has money at least for his life. There are other people that need these extra $$$...
Great point...
Although, realistically, the problem isn't lack of money or lack of food.
The nations that have a government stable and sane enough to make it possible for charity money to have a positive effect; mostly aren't the ones who need help in the first place.
In order to reduce a verdant country with plenty of natural resources to extreme poverty, you need a government utterly committed to the ruin of its people, either due to greed, stupidity or malice.
Giving all the money in the world to the places that need it the most wouldn't anyone any good. Removing the tluin-munching orc-get that are the reason those places are poor and hungry would be a much nobler goal. |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 23:06:02
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Lysander
Guys anyone being able to be in candlekeep means that he has money at least for his life. There are other people that need these extra $$$...
Great point... |
| Lord Lysander |
Posted - 27 Sep 2008 : 09:51:04
I would buy a castle of course. A ferrari, a McLaren. And yes Wizards of the Coast. After all these things done for my self I would go down to Africa. There I would fund building several small hospitals or something like this.
Guys anyone being able to be in candlekeep means that he has money at least for his life. There are other people that need these extra $$$...
If I had not had enough money for all of these, I would only built the hospitals at Africa. |
| Alisttair |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 18:11:01
quote:
Originally posted by HawkinstheDM
If I became super Rich Baker, ...
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| Varl |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 17:14:12
Super rich? I'd fulfill my dream by investing in our own company, and the dreams of my friends and partners in business, by creating the MMO we've been wanting to create since 2000. Money is the only thing stopping us. I wouldn't even have to be super rich. 5 million would do. |
| Hawkins |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 16:27:47
If I became super Rich Baker, I would throw off the shackles of WotC and save the Realms from them...wait, we were talking about rich as in having bundles of money, weren't we...
...I think I would attempt to buy the Realms rights from WotC and hire Ed full-time to fix what was done in the 4e Realms and then continue to write new lore for the Realms (or just begin to publish the many bits that he evidently has lying around in stacks of paper all over his house  ). |
| Nerfed2Hell |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 16:15:06
Money can't buy love, but if you live in America, it can buy a you a convincing facsimile.
Let's see, if I were super-rich, I'd probably develope a secret identity... just because that's what supers are supposed to do.
Next, I would buy the rights to (or if they've already been sold to one of you other super-rich fellows, license the rights to) the pre-spellplague Realms to develope the most awesome MMORPG ever... and it would be an MMORPG --not merely an MMO. I don't know who I'd get to develope the software end (but they'd have to be top notch), but I would likely hire a good number of the sages from Candlekeep to be the official lorekeeper staff to maintain a sense of continuity throughout the world and offer Ed Greenwood freelance work writing new, original content for missions and such.
I'd also buy some of that convincing facsimile I mentioned at the top, plus a good amount of mead and ale... all of which is for those occasions where I feel like celebrating my personal triumphs in the Realms MMO. Wheeeee!
Oh yeah, I'd also pay some bills and never work again. |
| Alisttair |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 16:07:20
Buy the extremely expensive Bloodstone Quartet modules that I am missing (in particular, the first one). |
| Pandora |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 15:25:39
quote:
Originally posted by Icelander
I wouldn't date Paris Hilton even if she begged me and promised to dress up like Galadriel.
I am sooo in agreement with this ... |
| Icelander |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 00:12:52
quote:
Originally posted by Victor_ograygor
If I got super rich.. hmm i am, and got what i whant, maby not super rich but rich. But i still need a girl friend lol. "But money cant buy love"
Someone wise once said that while money can't buy you love, at least it can secure you a romantic corner booth, privacy and a divine bottle of wine to share with someone while you work at discovering it.
And that it's better to be lonely in a Rolls Royce than the bus.
What does 'super rich' even mean? If I take it to mean 'rich enough so that the yearly income, without touching the capital, is enough to do whatever stupid thing I can think of', then I have a lot of things I'd like to do.
Stop working is an obvious one (if a bit redundant for a man who's already famous as the laziest worker on the job market  ). I'd finish my law degree, though, since I can't imagine being without a decent education.
I'd buy a house with a basement to install a gaming room in. Computer system that could project maps and pictures at will, both in the middle of the table and on the walls. I guess I'd need someone to handle programming and art direction as well.
I'd also hire a speech coach and an acting coach to make my GMing better. Learn how to mimic speech patterns for any conveivable NPC. I'd also learn Italian and Russian, since I haven't yet had the chance to learn them. Maybe add Afrikaans and Swahili. Also that hellacool Creole dialect that was used in Sierra Leone in Blood Diamond. Improve my Spanish, German and Latin. Bugger Danish, though, that's one language I'd opted out of if I had a choice when I was a kid.
Hire a valet. I'm not likely to keep a house large enough to need a larger domestic staff and I like the idea of a Jeeves-like character. A gentleman's personal gentleman.
I'd hire Sean Punch ('Dr Kromm') to write GURPS game supplements to my taste. Any supporting writers I needed would also be hired. The process would work like this; I'd suggest a book I wanted and then I'd negotiate with them how much money I'd need to contribute to make it a commercially viable product. Since my gaming tastes aren't in tune with most people, that would be a lot. There isn't much call for supplements like GURPS Economics, GURPS Political Intrigue and GURPS Social Encounters.
I'd also buy the rights to the Realms and ask Ed to work exclusively on projects that interested me. Unsurprisingly, those would all be pre-Spellplague and most of them would feature a minimum of random fight-scenes and a lot of character development and intrigue. I'd also pay good money to see a 256-page book on trade in the Realms. Politics and affairs of state would be a close second (actually, they're the same thing in different costumes).
Otherwise, my lifestyle wouldn't change much. I don't have any interest in being at the 'in parties' or gracing the social pages of the media. I wouldn't date Paris Hilton even if she begged me and promised to dress up like Galadriel. I don't want a small Carribean island or a yacht the size of one. I certainly don't want to compete with other people about the size of my hoard. I see that as just an extention of another competition that some people like to engage in during communal showers in high school. |
| LucianBarasu |
Posted - 13 Dec 2006 : 00:22:03
Victor, you'd be Bane, or Xvim, whichever you choose.Wooly and Sage and Alaundo drag guys into the back for cheating, and you get to break their fingers or worse.
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| Victor_ograygor |
Posted - 12 Dec 2006 : 22:17:32
I like the idea Lucian! what about me, what job and name would you give me?
If you fear Beshaba taking youre mony (Broke afther paying bills), pray to Tymora the Luckbringer, just like me... lol then you will see money roling. |
| Zimme |
Posted - 12 Dec 2006 : 09:38:51
Aye by the stones I am! I be sending my resume momentarily, and seeing about a greencard See you saturday!! he he! |
| LucianBarasu |
Posted - 12 Dec 2006 : 09:06:20
you my Big nordic Friend would be head of the bank vault. And of course, your nametag would be Moradin - keeper of the secrets...and my money. cause I know you're a dwarf fan. |
| Zimme |
Posted - 12 Dec 2006 : 07:39:27
quote:
Originally posted by lucianb
I'd Buy a small Casino in vegas, the taj or the luxor (hehe) and then turn every gambling table into a DND table.
As long as I get to wear the AO nametag and sit in the office (every employee would have to wear a god or demigod nametag.
Helm: dave Johnson - head of Security
Mystra: Julia Anne Dwyer - Entertainment and magic manager
Cyric: tom - Maintenance.(trash man)
Sounds like a plan Lucian! Then what job and name would you give me? Because I would wanna work there! |
| LucianBarasu |
Posted - 11 Dec 2006 : 08:10:55
I'd Buy a small Casino in vegas, the taj or the luxor (hehe) and then turn every gambling table into a DND table.
As long as I get to wear the AO nametag and sit in the office (every employee would have to wear a god or demigod nametag.
Helm: dave Johnson - head of Security
Mystra: Julia Anne Dwyer - Entertainment and magic manager
Cyric: tom - Maintenance.(trash man) |
| dwarvenranger |
Posted - 07 Dec 2006 : 22:53:28
I'd buy about 50,000 acres and build two castles on it. One in which I lived and another that would be the focus for a theme park (Realms Themed of course). Then I'd build the park with the various stores and other attractions, think Medieval Times in Orlando, Fl,USA only bigger, basically a very large permanent Rennisance/Fantasy Faire, that would be self sustaining hopefully. The employees for that fair would be welcome to build (with a good portion subsidized by me) period homes in an seperate identical, but smaller town for the employees and their families. This smaller town would also have a very large game store with a tavern feel, and an actual tavern nearby, and also a general store for food and the like, all of which would be subsidized by me so they could run at no proffit. Vehicles would be parked at the entrance to the park for both employees and visitors, with stables nearby to house the employee's horses (again subsidized) and the carriages that bring the visitors to the town proper.
I'd also build a castle on one of my family's plots of land in Spain and have my ancestry researched so I know which Coat of Arms was actually ours. |
| Besshalar |
Posted - 07 Dec 2006 : 21:44:12
A nice loft apartment with a library and a music room. Maybe start my own record label... Who knows... |
| Victor_ograygor |
Posted - 07 Dec 2006 : 21:21:33
If I got super rich.. hmm i am, and got what i whant, maby not super rich but rich. But i still need a girl friend lol. "But money cant buy love"
Just a thougt : 800.000 peapol live with under a 1§ a day, and over 5200.000 is staving.
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| Twilight |
Posted - 09 Nov 2006 : 07:32:20
I Would Make Black isle make another Baldurs gate |
| Delzounblood |
Posted - 01 Nov 2006 : 23:33:47
quote:
Originally posted by Genis
hahaha....two bricks....thats funny in a very cruel mean way...but funny non-the-less!
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| Genis |
Posted - 01 Nov 2006 : 23:20:26
hahaha....two bricks....thats funny in a very cruel mean way...but funny non-the-less! |
| Delzounblood |
Posted - 01 Nov 2006 : 23:01:11
Zimme
I can help you with your dream!!!
Well part of it anyway, save money on getting your cat nutered.
just take two bricks......... Nah only kidding Let the moggy roam free and let him " Tom " about and enjoy life. Would you like someone to chop bits of YOU off ??
But apart form that yeah good choice.
RPG view point if you are not rich then Kill or steal your way there no prob..
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