A few interesting, if not amusing, articles about dnd....
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Wolfspider
Explorer
Although a couple people have mentioned this in passing, I just thought I'd reiterate that Jack Chick DID NOT write these two essays, although they are hosted on his site.
The author is William Schnoebelen. You can find out more information about him here. He seems to have led an...interesting...life (although I've read some criticisms of this biography that argue it is simply fiction designed to give him credibility).
The author is William Schnoebelen. You can find out more information about him here. He seems to have led an...interesting...life (although I've read some criticisms of this biography that argue it is simply fiction designed to give him credibility).
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Darklone
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Enforcer said:
Nothing anti-semetic on the site... Hmm. You could consider the crusades antisemetic? Or try to ask him about the behavior of the church during a certain period last century in Germany...
It's sooo funny. Those guys are always citing bible passages. And if you tell them some other passages about killing your family or your sister cause she wears clothes of two different colours... He would do that?
About that author: Sad. Poor guy.
The Kender
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(starting joke)
You mean magic is real!?!?!? How long did you think you could keep this from me!? Somebody tell me how to cast Hold Person. Then I won't ever have to worry about bullies at school again.
(end joke)
You mean magic is real!?!?!? How long did you think you could keep this from me!? Somebody tell me how to cast Hold Person. Then I won't ever have to worry about bullies at school again.
(end joke)
Simon Magalis
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I would just like to say that my comment on page 2 about having bred a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing was very very funny and I am pretty upset that no one has commented on it!
Darklone
Registered User
Simon Magalis said:I would just like to say that my comment on page 2 about having bred a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing was very very funny and I am pretty upset that no one has commented on it!
Ah, a joke. Well. Ok. Hehehe. Hiihiiihiiii. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.
MUAHAHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
*gasping*
*gasping*
HoohohohohohoooOHOHOHOHOHO!!
Excuse me, that joke was too good. It simply canceled my self-control as well as my good manners. I promise to fare better next time and to show only an appropriate measure of humour.
*clapclapclap*
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
I disagree with the idea that knowledge of the occult can't help your game. One of the most fun things for me as a DM is designing plausible, interesting religions for my campaign world, and knowing a bit about diverse real-world religions helps me do this. My church of Mithra may be based in part off early-midireview Catholicism, but it still has a ritual in which new initiates crouch in a pit while a bull is sacrificed above them and they are bathed in the bull's blood.
And when I design evil crazy cultists, I take a page or two from Alistair Crowley. It's one thing to kill a cultist because she summons demons; it's another thing to kill a cultist because she captures poor people, drives them insane with drugs and spells, kills them, and renders their fat to make the ritual candles needed to summon demons, all based on a highly symbolic spell she discovered.
So no, I don't try to cast spells through my game. That is, of course, silliness. But I also don't mind using elements of real-world occultism to give the game verisimilitude.
Daniel
And when I design evil crazy cultists, I take a page or two from Alistair Crowley. It's one thing to kill a cultist because she summons demons; it's another thing to kill a cultist because she captures poor people, drives them insane with drugs and spells, kills them, and renders their fat to make the ritual candles needed to summon demons, all based on a highly symbolic spell she discovered.
So no, I don't try to cast spells through my game. That is, of course, silliness. But I also don't mind using elements of real-world occultism to give the game verisimilitude.
Daniel
Craer
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::sigh::
I got through about half of the second article until the point of illness. This has always bothered me, and I would very much like to see WotC or the appropriate group sue the pants off of Mr. Chick for slander. I think, since I have a week off from my scholarly duties, I'll write a well-composed and profanity-free e-mail to the author of said articles. And to Mr. Chick as well for even hosting them.
As for controling the weather, I'm going to make it sunny and warm in PA because it is too freaking cold here.
-Craer
I got through about half of the second article until the point of illness. This has always bothered me, and I would very much like to see WotC or the appropriate group sue the pants off of Mr. Chick for slander. I think, since I have a week off from my scholarly duties, I'll write a well-composed and profanity-free e-mail to the author of said articles. And to Mr. Chick as well for even hosting them.
As for controling the weather, I'm going to make it sunny and warm in PA because it is too freaking cold here.
-Craer
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