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Tombo
Seeker
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 Posted - 20 May 2003 : 15:11:13
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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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eilinel
Learned Scribe
France
296 Posts |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 15:29:25
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| I would buy a DnD shop and a celtic bar where i could play in peace |
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Leona
Acolyte
38 Posts |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 15:46:23
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I would buy over Microsoft. Nuff said  |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 16:01:43
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| And then we can blame you every time something happens on our computers! |
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eilinel
Learned Scribe
France
296 Posts |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 16:02:06
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mmmhh a big house with a huge room to play with books everywhere, and old stuffs that nobody wants...
and a winnery too
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what a nice dream in fact! |
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 17:24:34
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| I'd buy a castle in england and one in Loire. Then i'd buy a bar to make it like in the middle age with a backroom where I could play RPG with all my friends. And i'd stop to work |
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Leona
Acolyte
38 Posts |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 18:21:34
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Originally posted by Bookwyrm
And then we can blame you every time something happens on our computers!
I leave that to my tech support staff while I rake in even more profits :D |
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Edain Shadowstar
Senior Scribe
USA
455 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 08:16:50
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| I would form a massive, multinational, corporate conglomerate that would control the entertainment, computer, and automobile markets and run on a platform of honest and fair business practices. I would then become disgustingly rich, and overthrow the Sultan of Kunai and retire to a small, oil-rich nation in peace to live as a autocratic monarch with a really cool crown. |
Edain Shadowstar
Archwizard of Rel Astra and Waterdeep
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 08:52:31
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I would found my own RPG company so I could publish my homebrew campaign based on the Legends of Amasaria setting that is always in constant development.
At present I have nearly 10,000 pages (of varying width and length)worth of material that has so far been written about the lands of Amasaria, not to mention at least one of my four computers (50GB hardrive), dedicated to saved electronic material. I have an assortment of well over 200 maps detailing different areas, as well as campaign expansions for different areas of the campaign setting, much like FR.
I would like to see all this material published so that others could enjoy this homebrew setting that I have used for home campaigns (when not using WotC published worlds), on and off for the last 8 years.
And since it has not been clealy defined how much money is classed as being SUPER-RICH, I would like to think that I would have enough to go to WotC and ask Ed Greenwood if he would like to come and work at my company, then , try and acquire the FR setting in a long drawn out take-over battle.
But I guess I'm just day-dreaming, although I like to believe in what Charles Xavier (from X-Men comics) once said - "Any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for".
Good learning...
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Targon Moonrise
Learned Scribe
163 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 14:37:03
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| I would buy a castle in England, fly my friends there, then we can live our lives playing DnD. (Also, me and my friends love the middle age setting so it would most likely be like that.) |
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Malici
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 22 May 2003 : 06:39:51
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If I was super rich, I would build my own castle which I could open up as a hotel or resort for gamers. All of my buds would be the DM's. If any other DM's would like to apply, there will be many opportunities. I would do weekend or week long, gaming events for gamers. Gaming events would be quite inexpensive, all you have to do is get here and my bar maids and bar keeps will take care of you.
PS, I have a lotto ticket in hand, wish me luck....... |
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Tombo
Seeker
56 Posts |
Posted - 22 May 2003 : 14:51:39
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Malici, that's a brilliant idea! Or at least a brilliant dream anyway. I bet D&D roleplayers would love it. A vacation resort where you go to play D&D. The entire place could have a midevil decor. I would definitely go if there was such a place.
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 22 May 2003 : 19:37:14
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| And i'd invite you all in my Castle! |
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eilinel
Learned Scribe
France
296 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jun 2003 : 08:06:45
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and u'd do some hue orgy... and u'dbe drunk all the time, that we couldn't play anymore.
i know u, u shoudn't have money.
but u could give me it...  |
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jun 2003 : 18:55:08
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That's cool, Malici, a D&D resort. Call me when it opens.
If I were super rich, the first thing I would do is quit my job and pay off all my student loans. Then, I would pay to have all of you wonderful people here at Candlekeep (well, most of you)flown to some huge castle in Scotland or Spain or somewhere for a huge RPG convention. I would decorate with all the items I bought from the LoTR set. (It fits the theme) After that I might just decide to stay there.
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Anyone who likes to read something that's really dark and gritty and completely awesome ought to read The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. You can check out a little taste at www.BrentWeeks.com I should probably warn you, though, that it is definitely not PG-13 :-D
He also started a new Trilogy with Black Prism, which may even surpass the Night Angel Trilogy in its awesomeness.
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Artalis
Senior Scribe
USA
444 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jun 2003 : 19:58:45
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Ok first things first I will try to convert this to a actual FR Topic (shame on you guys)
If my character Tarim Ravenmane was super rich he would probably build a huge manor and gather all the books on magic he could and start a School of Arcane Sciences. Then he would hire a bunch of Wood Elf mages to escort him back to his home and "explain" to his clan how Arcane Magic is a tool and an art and not a path to evil.
Now If Nighteyes were filthy rich, oh wait he is. Nothing changes for him. He keeps a small little home in Waterdeep and has most of his gold stashed in various banking institutions. Money is nothing to him.
Now If I, ME, MYSELF were filthy rich, I would have my own castle BUILT here in the States (with all the modern conveniences of course, and secret passages and so on). I would have a killer computer room in the basement with a T1 coming in to the house. A sick clustered SQL environment in which to run the Candlekeep website. And I would hire one all the staff of Candlekeep full time with sweet pay to do exactly as they are doing right now, only with no pesky day job to get in the way.
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jun 2003 : 02:52:24
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| If we're talking characters getting rich, I would hire myself, to make sure that someone like me couldn't take all the cool stuff I just bought. |
Anyone who likes to read something that's really dark and gritty and completely awesome ought to read The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. You can check out a little taste at www.BrentWeeks.com I should probably warn you, though, that it is definitely not PG-13 :-D
He also started a new Trilogy with Black Prism, which may even surpass the Night Angel Trilogy in its awesomeness.
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jun 2003 : 06:46:27
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Artalis, you certainly are a nice guy!  
My character (Kevin Janis, not Bookwyrm) would be doing something similar to Tarim. Except he would have a school that was mobile, so he could spread learning around. He'd have a wagon with a permanent portal inside, leading to an underground storehouse with all sorts of equipment and books.
From here, he would wander the world, teaching people to read and write, some basic magic if possible (think the Magical Training feat from the FRCS, but not limited to Halruaa), and tips on how to do things better (like new techniques from different areas, spread to those who need them). |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
5699 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jun 2003 : 07:00:43
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Well Met
quote:
Originally posted by Artalis
Now If I, ME, MYSELF were filthy rich, I would have my own castle BUILT here in the States (with all the modern conveniences of course, and secret passages and so on). I would have a killer computer room in the basement with a T1 coming in to the house. A sick clustered SQL environment in which to run the Candlekeep website. And I would hire one all the staff of Candlekeep full time with sweet pay to do exactly as they are doing right now, only with no pesky day job to get in the way.
::keeps fingers crossed for Artlis' lottery numbers::
My, you are too kind, my dear Artalis. If only... ::sigh:: |
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Von Seossk
Acolyte
27 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2006 : 02:18:02
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I like that castle idea, personally. I would probably go out and buy every single D&D book, novel, mini, and magazine that I could get my hands on, even the stuff that's thirty years old. I don't care if I would never ever actually use it, but dammit, I'm rich and I don't have to care anymore. As for the miniatures, I would buy a huge amount of them, treasure chests full to be exact. It would be nice to retire, and to actually have the time necessary to complete those FR stories I've been trying to write.
Now, on the other hand, if it was an in game type of thing, one thing I've always wanted to build was my own keep/mansion, though I was hyper rich, I would just as soon build a giant castle. Fully stocked of course. Oh, and also, to start up an affiliation/organization and totally stock that too. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2006 : 08:10:43
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What I would do if I got filthy rich? That depends on what we call filthy, but I think buying the rights to the realms, giving them back to Ed and paying him a couple of mills a year to churn out realmslore for the realms as he originally saw it, sounds good. Maybe hiring a couple of people to help; a couple of people from these halls and a couple of the designers.
Of course there are things like a mountain of old 60's and 70's rock on vinyl and books galore, in addition to a very long list of both wishes both egotistical and not, but this has little to do with the realms. |
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Kazzaroth
Learned Scribe
Finland
104 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2006 : 13:00:24
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If any my characthers would become dirty rich they would build mobile base of operations. Also most would build school somesort to the base of operations and spread the school Faerun wide and open business connected to my char's primary trade or school's trade.
If myself get rich, I build a castle/mansion where is one libary full of DnD books along whit small sections for non-DnD books and the smaller libary filled whit fantasy books (most FR based whit along few other good ones like Lord of the Ring etc). There would be a videroom and then actual gaming room where is ENORMOUS huge table and in shelves there are DnD figurines and then terrain platforms and fridge filled whit refreshment drinks.
Also whit side money I also would build a well eguipped hotel whit a bar, strip club and gaming room (in basement level) and hotel is fantasy themed (quite bit LotR). I had mental imagine of elven eared barmaids and strippers who stripped of fantasy outwear. |
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Snotlord
Senior Scribe
Norway
476 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2006 : 13:27:53
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| Buy the world's largest turnip. |
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Asgetrion
Master of Realmslore
Finland
1564 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2006 : 15:39:39
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quote:
Originally posted by eilinel
I would buy a DnD shop and a celtic bar where i could play in peace
Hey, that sounds like a good plan I would probably do the same, except I wouldn't buy a shop crammed with only DnD, but rather all RPGs. I would also probably start a publishing company for all those great indie RPGs out there, which are now hidden among the vast halls of the Internet, never to see daylight in print. |
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Kiaransalyn
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
762 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2006 : 17:24:22
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If my Realms character became super-rich he would buy a magical printing press and publish pamphlets. Each pamphlet would be printed on paper whose watermark was a Symbol. The pamphlet would, quite naturally, extol the virtues of Kiaransalee and how belief in her is the only true faith. The symbol would ensure that with the destruction of the pamphlet two more would be created at random locations in Toril and an act of worship to Kiaransalee would be performed.
In real life, if I became super-rich I would set up a laboratory which would be dedicated to researching renewable energies. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
12189 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 01:32:41
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| I'd buy the rights to the realms and only let the authors who really had a love for it retcon it <g>. |
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EytanBernstein
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
704 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 02:51:10
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| I would pay off all the debt of all my family members, build myself a castle/mansion to my exact specifications, buy a new car & house for all family that needs them, donate 10% to various charities, buy a complete collection of every RPG book every written (even the ones I don't like), buy a 1st class ticket good for travel worldwide for a year (then visit most of the countries in the world), commission art related to my favorite fantasy/FR characters, places, and events, do all the minor cosmetic stuff I've always wanted to do (tooth reenameling, microdermabrasion, make sure I never lose my hair), buy exotic pets, open some FLGSs just so there'll be some more, and maybe start my own game company (or buy an existing one). |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 03:00:35
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Well, I have a ton of personal things I would do (hm . . . laptop and a nice stable desktop computer seem nice right now), but just getting into the Realms aspects of having unlimited funds . . .
I'd buy a full set of D&D books for my local libraries in the area, from my FLGS. (Okay, not full, I'd not want someone new to the game to stumble upon Magic of Incarnum without proper warning)
My newly built house would have a very well set up gaming room for my group.
I'd get all of those neat metal dice sets that I keep looking at.
And all of those neat Dwarven Forge dungeon sets that my single friend keeps taunting me with.
I'd hunt down brand new copies (or the best I could find) of all the old 1st and 2nd edition books that I used to have (and the ones that slipped by me the first time around).
I'd get a brand new copy of all of the novels in the line, and get copies of all of the hard covers that I either don't have or never had, and I'd travel to as many conventions as I could to get them all signed.
Hm . . . I'm sure I could think of a few more things, but thats a good start. |
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Von Seossk
Acolyte
27 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 17:10:06
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| Ha ha, hell, I'd buy all the novels, and then fund my OWN series of Forgotten Realms novels. |
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Genis
Learned Scribe
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 00:00:43
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id buy every forgotten realms and dragonlance book there was....then pay someone to build me a giant stone castle/keep in the montains somewhere in montana...and read all the books i got in my castel in the mountains in montana "which i would fill with tons of medieval swords and weapons"
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 12:18:19
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Hmm...well, to start with I'd make sure my brothers, parents, and grand-parents got mildly rich as well. Then I'd send some money off to charities and NGOs I like/support. And then there'd be time for me...
Getting a nice stable desktop computer does seem like a good idea right about now yes... As does getting a complete FR-collection, including those collectible D&D cards I've heard about.
Oh...and I buy up Liverpool FC and give Chelski a run for the money. *grins* |
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What would you do if you became Super Rich?
