They actually think DND is dangerous?

[Gestahl]

Chick Tract time...

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp?repeatfrom3yearsago

DND turns 30 this month, and as all good Christians know, DND is the way for Satan to enter into young minds... that's how *I* learned to cast magic missile and how to control my familiar...

//rolls D20
//roll was succesful against intelligence stat
//Dismisses Chick tract
//wonders how low someone's INT stat has to be to fail this throw... damn GM never tells me...

 

[The GM]

The only evil thing D&D might propogate is the tendency to overeat Funions and drink too much Mountain Dew.

"I magic missle the darkness!"

 

[Beleth]

Jack Chick's understanding of D&D is just as shallow and biased as his understanding of every other social phenomenon and issue.

 

[The GM]

OMG! I have read this tract before! It's the one staring Alex Trebeck! I love it!

 

[Hexxenhammer]

Chick is right. D&D turned me into a hardcore satanist. It even made me dedicate an entire thread to roleplaying here at the JREF (see my sig).

Hail satan.

 

[triadboy]

There's a tract on Chutes and Ladders too.

 

[Checkmite]

Candy Land is also nothing more than an allegorical trip to Hell, in which children are encouraged to indulge in earthly pleasures instead of the living Word of God.

 

[pgwenthold]

The only evil thing D&D might propogate is the tendency to overeat Funions and drink too much Mountain Dew.

AKA "the breakfast of champions"

 

[Upchurch]

I have a friend that is training to be a Lutheran minister, believes the bible is divinely inspired, and believes that homosexuality is a sin. He's also playing a rogue/ranger elf in our up coming game.

Not every fundy misses their Wisdom check.


edited to add:
I just think that the ones roll a critical miss tend to also be the loudest...

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I have a friend that is training to be a Lutheran minister, believes the bible is divinely inspired, and believes that homosexuality is a sin. He's also playing a rogue/ranger elf in our up coming game.

Not every fundy misses their Wisdom check.


edited to add:
I just think that the ones roll a critical miss tend to also be the loudest...

I'll one up you. One of my players is a very devout Jehovahs Witness (though admittedly, just about the least pushy one I have ever met). Her take on the issue of whether RPG's are evil is that it's just a game, not very different than if she were playing Scrabble, and as long as she never forgets that fact, playing D&D is perfectly fine.

 

[Scot C. Trypal]

Does a person like Chick really think witches can cast spells, spells that can actually alter reality?

I mean, a “bondage spell” that could result in fathers spending $200 on D&D “figures and manuals”; that’s some pretty powerful sorcery.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Does a person like Chick really think witches can cast spells, spells that can actually alter reality?

I mean, a “bondage spell” that could result in fathers spending $200 on D&D “figures and manuals”; that’s some pretty powerful sorcery.

You know, I have often though along similar lines. The world that Chick and his ilk inhabit is a scary one, where witches and demons lurk around every corner waiting to get you and some omnipotent being is watching your every move and will torture you for eternity of you don't do things just right.

This is a much more scary world thatn I hve ever been able to conjure up in any of my games.

 

[Upchurch]

Does a person like Chick really think witches can cast spells, spells that can actually alter reality?

Appears so. He also believes that angels and demons literally move around us unseen and whisper little things in our ears. He's the craziest of the crazies.

More Fundamentalist hilarity!

 

[Hexxenhammer]

As I've said before, the biggest problem with this tract is how many girls are playing D&D.

(Yes, I know Chani and a few others play, but they're still the exception to the rule.)

 

[uruk]

Oo! I especialy loved the last frame. That takes me back to the good ol' days of book burnings.

 

[Marc]

Does a person like Chick really think witches can cast spells, spells that can actually alter reality?

That is the reason he fears D&D, he thinks it is all real.

And people say fantasy game players have a hard time telling reality from fantasy.

 

[Hexxenhammer]

Appears so. He also believes that angels and demons literally move around us unseen and whisper little things in our ears. He's the craziest of the crazies.

More Fundamentalist hilarity!

Don't have too much fun, we'll have to move this thread to humor.

And we always need more geeks in the gaming thread...

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Don't have too much fun, we'll have to move this thread to humor.

And we always need more geeks in the gaming thread...

I know, it seems that you, Bluegill and I make 90% of the posts to that thread. I KNOW we have more gaming geeks that that.

[/derail]

 

[Upchurch]

Don't have too much fun, we'll have to move this thread to humor.

No danger there. My sarcasm is rarely funny.

 

[Rosencrantz]

I'd seen this before, but I was utterly creeped out by the "D&D: It's More Than Just A Game. William Schnoebelen Explains Why." link at the bottom. This guy is insane! He maintains that he was a Satanist before he converted to Christianity, and claims he worked with TSR in that capacity to make the magic of D&D as "real" as possible. His arguments that D&D causes suicides and Satanism are unbelieveable. His article genuinely scared me to the center of my being, that someone could have this twisted a belief system. Even after having had thousands of people write to him to explain his misconceptions, he still believes D&D is evil and that these people are misguided or corrupt, as he writes in his followup article, Should Christians Play D&D?. Gah! Save us!