Flaser wrote...
The thing is in most of the cool and dangerous places that I'd like to visit I'd be killed pretty soon. Hmm... if I *had* to choose (and choose something that'd exciting but not a "safe" choice) I'd go with Record of Lodoss War.
Possessing even rudimentary knowledge of advanced technology could turn any modern day person into a power to reckon. Not as a warrior, but as an advisor or if you survive your initial bout as the "witch/wizard" as a statesman.
Introducing basic things like hygiene (with a rudimentary infection theory to back it up), printing press, workshop based manufacturing (instead guild apprenticeship) could change the world within a couple of decades. Add in more complicated stuff like firearms, steel production techniques, basic electric applications (Radio!) and you could conquer the world.
Even a computer expert like me could be useful. Imagine if information theory was applied to spells and magic. (Read Rick Cook's Wizardry books to find out how that could turn out)... or what a revolution I could cause by creating an administration that actually used hard data and was centralized instead a mere vassal system. Then we go into stuff like encryption and communication that could give a massive advantage to any army in the field. (No more intercepted (...or intercepted and understood!) messages in the field).
Goddamn! you really thought about this alot!