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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 1227311" data-attributes="member: 2182">Actually this isn't my current group.  The person who was a conservative Christian played with me in high school some years ago.  He really didn't have a major problem with D&D, but was a little uncomfortable about having religion play an active role in the game.  Overall it wasn't a major problem since we usually just played Gurps: Sci-Fi.  (Believe it or not, there are some conservative Christians that play RPGs!  Not every gamer is an atheist, agnostic, pagan, or even a member of a liberal Christian sect.)Again, the person who was got a little too into D&D was another person I played with in high school.  Apparently she was into wicca and neo-paganism.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand in wicca a person can pick a historical deity to be a focus and represent the divine.  Apparently she picked the Forgotten Realms diety (not the original Finnish diety) Meilikki to be her representation of the god/godess, because she thought that the way Meilikki was depicted in the Forgotten Realms novels represented her beliefs perfectly (respect for nature, not to mention the patron deity of Drizzt <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).  Anyway, she really conflicted with a lot of members in our group for obvious reasons.  We ended up more of less kicking her out.I guess it goes to show you that gamers are quite a diverse bunch.  I've played with people who have been neo-pagans, conservative Christians, atheists, and agnostics.  Most gamers are pretty cool people, but their are some weird ones.</blockquote>

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