D&D 5E D&D: Full of Occult Demons and Warlocks!

[Werebat]

This ought to take some of you oldsters back a bit.

We all knew that D&D was full of "occult demons and warlocks" in the past, but I had thought that 5th Edition had toned them down a bit. Apparently not?

http://boingboing.net/2015/04/29/dungeons-and-dragons-is-full-o.html

You can insert the obvious "gluttony" joke here.

 

[doctorhook]

Watching that video, I'm pretty sure this was filmed long before there was a 3E, much less a 5E. The video quality, the hairstyles, and the fashion on the congregation definitely look to be from a couple decades ago.

Side note: I definitely thought that the image onscreen was distorted because of the way the pastor looked onscreen. Nope, I think he must('ve) really be(en) that wide. Big dude, for sure.

 

[Werebat]

The guy has several other videos on Youtube, so you can see for yourself if that's his actual girth.

 

[Werebat]

The guy has several other videos on Youtube, so you can see for yourself if that's his actual girth.

Compare to this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhTlflFC6-I

Though I suppose it's possible that they've ALL been distorted -- probably by DEMONS!!!

 

[doctorhook]

The guy has several other videos on Youtube, so you can see for yourself if that's his actual girth.

I just checked out his interview on Geraldo, which seems to confirm both the period and Pastor Worley's size.

The video linked in the original post is interesting, but only as a glimpse back into the so-called "satanic panic". That whole situation is really only tangentially related to D&D--it was just people with extreme beliefs creating a moral panic about a popular game they'd never played. On that note, I think we'd be best to curtail this discussion; it's not really about D&D or anything current, and it's going to be really, really easy for this to slide into both fat-shaming and religion-bashing, neither of which are especially cool. (Pretty sure we've got rules about at least one of those things here, too.)

 

[Plane Sailing]

Doctorhook is right, this isn't going to go anywhere helpful, so I"m closing this thread down.