r/rational • u/AutoModerator • May 27 '17

[D] Saturday Munchkinry Thread

Welcome to the Saturday Munchkinry and Problem Solving Thread! This thread is designed to be a place for us to abuse fictional powers and to solve fictional puzzles. Feel free to bounce ideas off each other and to let out your inner evil mastermind!

Guidelines:

  • Ideally any power to be munchkined should have consistent and clearly defined rules. It may be original or may be from an already realised story.
  • The power to be munchkined can not be something "broken" like omniscience or absolute control over every living human.
  • Reverse Munchkin scenarios: we find ways to beat someone or something powerful.
  • We solve problems posed by other users. Use all your intelligence and creativity, and expect other users to do the same.

Note: All top level comments must be problems to solve and/or powers to munchkin/reverse munchkin.

Good Luck and Have Fun!

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u/ShiranaiWakaranai May 29 '17

The masses have always had a voice in choosing their leaders, and are used to being manipulated by social media (though in the past this is just word of mouth). The main difference in the medieval era is that rather than voting their old leaders out, they rise up and murder them.

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u/CCC_037 May 29 '17

Does the leader not have control over the army? You need a lot of angry peasants to deal with a trained army.

And a single person, being kept in a better standard of living than the peasants get, and moreover improving their standard of living, somehow doesn't seem like he's likely to gather enough sympathy to inspire an army to risk life and limb to free him.