{"id":350,"date":"2013-01-29T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/what-if\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:17:51","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What If…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even casual comic fans are probably familiar with the “What If…?” format: change something and see what else changes because of it. Kind of like a lot of RPGs (“it’s like our world except…”). These tables give you some “What If…?” scenarios that you can use as a starting point for a modern-day game premise (or add to your existing game, if your game’s weird enough). The first table tells you who is different, the second table tells you how. <\/p>\n

What if…<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Barack Obama<\/li>\n
  2. Rupert Murdoch<\/li>\n
  3. Lady Gaga<\/li>\n
  4. Glenn Beck<\/li>\n
  5. Bill Gates<\/li>\n
  6. Stephen Colbert<\/li>\n
  7. Sarah Palin<\/li>\n
  8. Oprah<\/li>\n
  9. Ron Paul<\/li>\n
  10. Alan Moore<\/li>\n
  11. Ringo Starr<\/li>\n
  12. Richard Branson<\/li>\n
  13. Tim Tebow<\/li>\n
  14. Vladimir Putin<\/li>\n
  15. Harvey Weinstein<\/li>\n
  16. Neil DeGrasse Tyson<\/li>\n
  17. The Pope<\/li>\n
  18. Warren Buffett<\/li>\n
  19. Hillary Clinton<\/li>\n
  20. Mark Zuckerberg<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Was Secretly…<\/b><\/p>\n

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    1. An elaborate prank by Andy Kaufman<\/li>\n
    2. Jesus<\/li>\n
    3. Planning a real-life Project Mayhem<\/li>\n
    4. A time traveler<\/li>\n
    5. Building a mind control ray<\/li>\n
    6. A shape-shifting space lizard<\/li>\n
    7. The leader of Anonymous<\/li>\n
    8. A Bond villain<\/li>\n
    9. Controlling the weather<\/li>\n
    10. Planning to take over the world<\/li>\n
    11. A powerful wizard<\/li>\n
    12. A super-hero<\/li>\n
    13. A super-villain<\/li>\n
    14. Building a moon base<\/li>\n
    15. A cult leader<\/li>\n
    16. Raising an army of undead<\/li>\n
    17. Building a real-life Jurassic Park<\/li>\n
    18. The head of the Illuminati<\/li>\n
    19. The next step in human evolution<\/li>\n
    20. The Devil<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Even casual comic fans are probably familiar with the “What If…?” format: change something and see what else changes because of it. Kind of like a lot of RPGs (“it’s like our world except…”). These tables give you some “What If…?” scenarios that you can use as a starting point for a modern-day game…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1996],"tags":[1438,1427,1428,1429,1430,1431,1432,1433,1434,1435,1436,1437,1426,1439,1440,1441,1442,1443,1444,1445,1446,1447,1520,1415,518,584,635,725,886,1023,1410,1411,1412,1413,1414,203,1416,1417,1418,1419,1420,1421,1422,1423,1424,1425],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumb-tables","tag-bond","tag-neil-degrasse-tyson","tag-the-pope","tag-warren-buffett","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-project-mayhem","tag-a-time-traveler","tag-mind-control-ray","tag-reptilian","tag-space-lizard","tag-anonymous","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-controlling-the-weather","tag-take-over-the-world","tag-super-villain","tag-moon-base","tag-cult","tag-undead-army","tag-jurassic-park","tag-illuminati","tag-human-evolution","tag-adventure-ideas","tag-glenn-beck","tag-super-hero","tag-jesus","tag-conspiracy","tag-andy-kaufman","tag-dumb-tables","tag-the-devil","tag-what-if","tag-alternate-history","tag-barack-obama","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-lady-gaga","tag-wizard","tag-bill-gates","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-sarah-palin","tag-oprah","tag-ron-paul","tag-alan-moore","tag-ringo-starr","tag-richard-branson","tag-tim-tebow","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}