Have the events of 9/11 ever impacted your traditional gaming,

There was the druids massed bird bombings of the twin wizard towers. One player couldn't keep a straight face, the others didn't get it.

>>49288709
Yeah, we had to end our game early before Mossad's demolition charges took down Tower 7.

No, I'm a 20 year old Canadian. I'm sure there have been financial impacts somewhere along the line, but no direct effects that you'd be able to follow clearly.

It's been 15 years, I think you guys could let it go a little.

>>49288756
> you guys could let it go a little.
> Implying OP is from the US

He could be a troll tryin to get Amerifags.

>>49288756
Honestly no one really cares about it anymore other than it got us bogged down in two wars

What do the twin towers and gender have in common?

There use to be only two of them

>>49288756
A lot of New Yorkers who still remember it still get a bit broken up over it. Lots of people lost family and stuff, and the towers were national icons, but I think at this point we've killed enough sand people that the thirst for revenge has cooled off.

It's almost socially acceptable to make fun of it openly now. Some people are already doing it, that Mattress place got a lot of flak but everyone laughed.

>>49288756
>9/11 was 15 years ago

I need to sit down.

>>49288756
>A FUCKING LEAF

>>49288709
Short answer: No.
Long answer:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo.

>>49288756
God damn it Leaf, I'll let it go once we have killed enough fuckers to run the rivers red for what they did to us. I will never forgive, I will never forget and I will never show mercy.

>>49288709
FUCKIN INVINCIBLE
RED SUN

>>49288756
In my part of the US, there's barely been anything to let go of. The only real places that haven't let go are around New York, because it hit hardest for them.

I'm sure there's been some scary stuff going on in Canada at some point, but you wouldn't expect a guy from three provinces over to care as much when something happens in Quebec.

>>49288709
Indirectly, yes.

Before 9/11, most Americans (myself included) knew next-to-dick about Islam. Look at Al-Qadim for how gamers saw Islam in the 90s. That picture changed after 9/11, because the media began paying attention to Muslim countries. We really hadn't been, before.

>>49288756
Keep quiet Johny Chang, go back to eating your dim sum.
Signed: Not-American-Either

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One of the PCs went back in time to try to stop it. Unfortunately he only managed to prevent one plane from crashing.

The one he was on.

>F, Tony, you were a better man than all of us.

Man, Roller Coaster Tycoon RPG can get pretty heavy sometimes.

>>49288709
yes, made it easier to know who not to play with, the moment i hear 9/11 was a inside job, is the same moment i tend to drop the player, unless he is spekaing IC

>>49289171
you allredy did, the civilian death count in the middle east has hit 1 mil a few days ago

>>49289369

Only 1mil? Damn, Are you lying about American might anon? Only took 15 years, jeez.

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i have a buddy who used to get ass blasted about 9/11 in highschool. any reference to it and he had to leave the class or some shit, look away from the projector, or something. He never had any family members die in 9/11 either, nor has he had any family member die fighting mudgooks over seas.

also i plan on making a JoJo campaign and pic related happened in part 3
>araki predicting 9/11

>>49289369
>I-it's all on the americans
Crybaby, durkas killing each other doesn't count. They didn't even firebomb the place yet to celebrate the 4th of July.

>>49289369
>15 years and two "wars"
>Only ~one million civilan casualties
Damn, we must be losing our touch.

>>49289014
There are people who can vote in the Upcoming election who can't remember 9/11.

>>49288709
It has really helped me as player, in fact I wouldn't be able to play at all if not for that day. 9/11 was my first day in school. All I knew of the US back then was that they owned that huge area next to our office.

>>49288853
Well I was on 4chan making jokes about 9/11 before the second tower fell, and everyone laughed about it.

>>49289189
Look at Islam prior to the 80s. Period. Islam was pretty awesome for a long time before murderous power-hungry woman-hating thugs took it over.

You know how people say Hitler loved Islam? Well he had every right to, because 20th Century Islam was a completely different beast from 21st Century Islam. One was pious people with great culture, the other is brainwashed and terrified people murdering one-another over nothing.

>>49288709
My gaming group was killed after they hijacked the planes that flew into the towers.

>>49288709
Nope

>>49288709
My character inspired Satan to cause 9/11.

>>49288709
True fact: I was running my first game of D&D when the attack happened.

>>49289189
Remember when Conservatives loved Islam and Sharia because it was "tough on crime"? During the 90s you might even have heard particularly venomous right wingers say only PC hippy lefty hated Islam.

I remember.

>>49289921
Islam is far more static than Christianity.

And it has always held The prophet Mohammed as the ideal man - a person who has more questionable acts to his name than Idi Amin.

>>49289906
>On 4chan
>In 2001
Sure you were, kiddo.

>>49289995
I'm an oldfag!

Actually I'm not, I waited all year to make that joke

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>>49289570
Like me!
That's just because I don't remember much before highschool, though. No trauma or anything, my memory's just spottier than a cheetah with acne.

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>>49288709
stay classy tg

>>49288756
What's that all aboot, eh?

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Have memes ever impacted your traditional gaming, whether in-game or out-of-game?

>>49289989
Way before, you had 18th centuries authors that talked about Islam without knowing anything about it as either an example of fanaticism and intolerance or a bastion of morals and righteousness.
They're actually talking about the catholic church.

Well, when running games prior to 9/11 we always have to remember that you can just carry an assault rifle onto the plane and high five the pilot in his cabin during the flight

>>49288709
I was actually late for my game that day because I had to go interview the local Disaster Emergency Manager.

>>49289419
im talking about american caused deaths

>>49288709
Not really. I don't think it's ever has any direct effect on my life, let alone my tabletop.

I guess I may have played some vidya at some point that wouldn't have gotten made if 9/11 hadn't made Americans obsessed with shooting Muslims.

>>49289921
>>49289189
>>49289993
Where can I learn more about pre-Iranian Revolution Islam?

Fuck the CIA and all the Harvard-educated rich kids who ruined an entire culture and millions, maybe billions, of lives for oil and their penis-measuring contest with Soviet Russia.

>>49288853
>sand people
>my fucking sides

>>49294036
Just look at its golden age, which sadly was shortlived and forgotten/unknown by most westerners (8th to 12th century or so)

>>49294123
It's a shame, really. When I was 17, I sympathized with the victims of the Middle East and the true Muslims when I read The Kite Runner, then, Persepolis two years later. I've also seen documentaries where I learned Muslims pioneered much of science and mathematics.

Just looking at pictures of Kabul, Afghanistan and their women in the 60's and 70's depresses the fuck out of me. What could have been, today, if we didn't fuck with them and have two wars.

I'm guessing we'd probably mess around with Africa, or we'd start World War III with North Korea or China.

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>>49294192
>Just looking at pictures of Kabul, Afghanistan and their women in the 60's and 70's depresses the fuck out of me. What could have been, today, if we didn't fuck with them and have two wars.

Yeah, the speed of fundamentalism is pretty terrifying. I know The Handmaids Tale gets a lot of flack for being a hippy-dippy novel, but reading it for the first time after 9/11 scared the piss out of me because of how plausible a cultural shift really is.

>>49294230
Sometimes I wonder what America would be like as a third world country. Would there be a Christian Taliban?

Would there be crusaders running around with bomb vests, screaming "NON NOBUS DOMINE" before going off, women forced to dress in Amish clothing, people being killed daily by stake-burnings and hangings?

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>>49294036
>>49294192
Before that it was the British and the French, and the British, Russians and Ottomans before them.

And just when things were looking fairly stable, it was decided that they needed to be shook up again.

>>49294230
Well there were a lot of radicals in the region even in the stable times - they don't just pop up out of nowhere, after all.

But that's hardly a comforting thought when you remember how many fringe groups there are in, say, the US

>>49288709
I'd love to see a close comparison of the fiction and media made before (especially just before) and after 9/11 - it's probably fair to say that the 21st century we thought we were going to have was permanently changed when the towers were hit.
That version of the 21st century lasted 21 months

>>49288709
I was running a VtM campaign set in New York when 9/11 happened. Also, my group and I all lived in New York at the time and one of the players had a cousin who died.

We ended up deciding to put that game on permanent hiatus and went back to playing more traditional fantasy for awhile.

>>49295362
9/11 was a Baali conspiracy to get America to bomb Assamite havens.

>>49293232
I can't stop refrencing 4chan-tier memes at the painting table in my local GWend my pointless existence

>>49294192
People don't seem to realize that only a few cities in the Mid East were ever that modern or westernized.

>>49297001
Well there wasn't that many cities in the region to begin with, and poor rural people are always kind of shit, pretty much everywhere

>>49297794
As an East Texan, I can personally verify this to be true.

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We played Tower Fall today (pretty fun quickie game btw - would be a great in-campaign minigame too).

The premise is you stack your dice to make a tower and it periodically collapses. Then mid-game we realized "Oh-- just for today at least you should probably stop making airplane noises whenever you add another die on top."

>>49289570
My girlfriend asked me where I was when 9/11 happened. I told her about going to an eeril deserted college campus.

Then I asked her, and she said she didn't remember, but was probably coloring in first grade.

>>49288709
Not really, though I guess it made us want more escapism than before.

>>49289182
RED SUN OVER PARADISE

>>49304077
Golden rays of the glorious sunshine

Setting down, such a blood-red light

>>49305233
Now the animals slowly retreat to the shadows, out of sight.

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>>49306281
Arid winds blow across the mountains, giving flight to the birds of Prey.

>>49288709
Only in that it influenced this one guy I used to play with who had absolutely no creative drive and just copied whatever anime or whatever he was watching at the time and there was plenty of "the gooberment does bad shit thats necessary yo" with no explanation as to why they do anything.

I can't say no, but I can't say yes

My setting is alt history so while 9/11 itself probably didn't happen verbatim, the world definitely had its share of high-mortality attacks to help it progress into the shithole it becomes.

>>49306709
In the distance machines come to transform Eden, day by day.

>>49308232
Only love is with us now, something warm and puuuure.
Find the peace within ourselves, no need for a cure.

>>49294345
>I'd love to see a close comparison of the fiction and media made before (especially just before) and after 9/11 - it's probably fair to say that the 21st century we thought we were going to have was permanently changed when the towers were hit.
That version of the 21st century lasted 21 months

Deus Ex (the original, not the piss colored one) pretty much predicted post 9/11 politics to a T. It even had an eerie future proofed backstory to it, as the New York skyline was missing the Twin Towers.

>>49289570
I bet you people were saying the exact same thing back in 1978. Or 1956.

>Where were you when JFK was shot?
>Where were you when Pearl Harbor happened?

>>49309875
It was a stroke of luck that Ion Storm predicted the societal trends. But then again, it seems that 9/11 vindicated a lot of 90s conspiracy theorists, and then Katrina subverted a lot of them, especially the FEMA ones.

>>49309662
When the wind is slow
And the fire's hot
The vulture waits to see what rots

Not 9/11, but the Paris shootings did have an impact on one game.
We were playing as a Rainbow 6 style multi-national anti-terror squad, and were looking forward to a new mission.
Unfortunately, the GM told us that what he had written was a race against time to stop a terrorist atrocity in, you guessed it, Paris.

We all agreed that this would probably be in bad taste, so we suspended the session until he could get something else written. Sadly, he never did.

>>49313158
I should add that the game was due to run the Saturday after said attacks actually happened.

>>49313158
>>49313201
>not running the game early to save Paris and prevent the attacks from even happening
cunts

>>49288709
I'm a europoor I know a friend with his birthday on 9/11, that is 11/9 dumb amerifats, and we still celebrated his birthday.

Anyway. too bad about your ode to capitalism. It really was uncalled for kek but seriously all those innocent wall street people who did nothing wrong, ever and those margeritaville investment plans was a shame.

I don't know man, why didn't you let those guys just keep their oil? Anyway, i hate terrorists too, and jesus christ watch over the lives of the innocent, those towelheads can all burn in southwestern baptist church hell and thats why I carry a gun cuz dis my land bitch.

>>49288709

It tanked a mixed game of oWoD Hunters I was in as the DM switched gears on 9/12 and turned it into 9/11 revenge porn.

>>49288709
M&M

American-Elemental-through-lense-of-superman said that failing to stop the towers from going down was his biggest mistake, and he hasn't been able to get it up and satisfy the statue of liberty since that day.


the table's reaction was mixed

>>49293232
Memes, in my setting, are one of the most studied and even are, hilariously, valuable, to certain collectors in the world's decaying, segregated intranets.

One of the main centers of post-nuclear civilization in our game is the reclaimed WTC transit station. It wasn't built until after 9/11 destroyed the original. So... Yes?