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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7594836" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>it is axiomatic to a pedant: a book is never cinematic, a movie never literary. Not in the strict definition of the terms.</p><p></p><p>I'm a strong bit of a pedant, but not that strict; that said, many of the religious right are <em>that </em>pedantic. Having lived through the satanic panic, and the school scares about various RPG's, the only thing that worked with them was pointing out that the books encouraged reading skills, that the play encouraged story-telling, that the books encouraged reading other books. (That they supposedly encourage paganism being a non-starter when arguing with a civil service agency, including school districts without elected leadership...)</p><p></p><p>That the books, in a fairly strict definition are literary and encourage other literary endeavours is one of the few things that kept the district I worked for from banning outright RPGs in the 80's, the 90's, the 00's... each time when the religious right came calling, demanding the "devil game" be banned. I was a student for one, an employee during another, and in college during the one between. </p><p></p><p>That external reference is important. As of 2012, there had been an RPG group in the same spot at my alma mater since 1983... one gm taking over for another through the years... Same for another HS, as well. I've spoken with students overlapping through all the years betwixt... That the game got kids reading was the best defense for principals resisting political pressure to ban RPGs.</p><p></p><p>Then again, many of the same voices calling for no RPGs also want no fiction in school lit classes.</p><p></p><p>So, the very narrow definitions are the valuable ones: logic bombs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 7594836, member: 6779310"] it is axiomatic to a pedant: a book is never cinematic, a movie never literary. Not in the strict definition of the terms. I'm a strong bit of a pedant, but not that strict; that said, many of the religious right are [I]that [/I]pedantic. Having lived through the satanic panic, and the school scares about various RPG's, the only thing that worked with them was pointing out that the books encouraged reading skills, that the play encouraged story-telling, that the books encouraged reading other books. (That they supposedly encourage paganism being a non-starter when arguing with a civil service agency, including school districts without elected leadership...) That the books, in a fairly strict definition are literary and encourage other literary endeavours is one of the few things that kept the district I worked for from banning outright RPGs in the 80's, the 90's, the 00's... each time when the religious right came calling, demanding the "devil game" be banned. I was a student for one, an employee during another, and in college during the one between. That external reference is important. As of 2012, there had been an RPG group in the same spot at my alma mater since 1983... one gm taking over for another through the years... Same for another HS, as well. I've spoken with students overlapping through all the years betwixt... That the game got kids reading was the best defense for principals resisting political pressure to ban RPGs. Then again, many of the same voices calling for no RPGs also want no fiction in school lit classes. So, the very narrow definitions are the valuable ones: logic bombs. [/QUOTE]
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