Jack Chick Passes Away

The controversial figure Jack Chick, who published a range of comic books known popularly as "Chick tracts", which attacked a number of activities including Dungeons & Dragons, has passed away. His Dark Dungeons tract was released in 1984 and is often linked to the 1980s paranoia about Satanism and other elements suggested to be part of tabletop roleplaying games. A movie version of that particular tract was also made by JR Ralls.

[video=youtube;8qc9JiIiOSQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qc9JiIiOSQ[/video]


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[Von Ether]

Ah. Yes one of the architects of what I called "America's Second Red Scare."

To posthumously wish him ill will would be to stoop to his level.

 

[prenzie]

What does it mean to be "stonefly linked"?

 

[Queer Venger]

double post

 

[Queer Venger]

Ah religion...

Poor fool didn't even get the tract right; the DM should have given Black Leaf a saving throw vs. poison ;-)

 

[Kelanen]

Ah. Yes one of the architects of what I called "America's Second Red Scare."

To posthumously wish him ill will would be to stoop to his level.

You still managed to get your insult in.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Honestly, my dad helped me fall in love with D&D when I was 7 yrs old, he played the old floppy disc computer games, but never the tabletop version. When I was 10 I googled D&D for a school project, and his Dark Dungeons was the first thing I found, first thing I saw as an outsiders view of D&D. I knew it was ridiculous, but knowing this is how other people saw the game is why I never talked to anyone outside my family about it, and frankly not even then because a lot of my family is very conservative and religious. Never got a chance to play, until college.

Of course, playing in College with the Guild has been some of the best times in my life, so I suppose it balances to a degree.

 

[EthanSental]

wow - that looks like a bad movie no matter the subject.

 

[MoonSong]

Don't know what to think. On a way we have one less prejudiced man on earth, but on the other hand every life is precious, and I'm sure the man has got to have loved ones that miss him dear? How do we know he didn't live under a rock and was just very sheltered on many many topics? Or maybe Poes Law? I'll never know why I always feel the need to play devil's advocate... wait a minute, mmm let's just leave it at that.

 

[Jester David]

wow - that looks like a bad movie no matter the subject.

It's a micro budget fan movie. They raised $25k on Kickstarter. Very tongue in cheek...