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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 473171" data-attributes="member: 5834">ReThe primary determinants of morality are role models and culture. They play the greatest part in shaping the morality of the young.Though, I find that for roleplaying games, the morality I choose to play is defined by the literature I read. For example, I am a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings and The Arthurian Legends. Because of this, I tend to play knights and goodly characters. I don't like playing characters flawed in real world ways like drug users, thieves, or even primitives. I much prefer a high-minded character with good ideals and a strong sense of fair play and honor.In real life, I don't see D and D having much of an effect on my morality. It is often more often the reverse. My ideas of morality have a strong effect on the way I play D and D. I have been playing D and D since I was 7 years old. Even then, the game was more affected by my morality than I by its morality. Probably the reason why I liked to play characters that were like super heroes when I first started to play.About the only thing D and D has done is to enhance my reading and math skills as well as my imagination. I definitely think role-playing games improve imagination and problem solving skills.There is some benefit to role-playing games. I just don't think it does much to shape one's morality because you bring your sense of right or wrong with you into the game. Even when it comes to killing, the only thing holding people back from ruthlessly killing another man who has done something greviously wrong is the law and lack of training.You train a man to kill in the same manner adventurers are, and you can be sure that they will do it when angry. It certainly isn't a highly developed sense of morality holding back people from killing each other in anger.I only need direct you to medieval and old west history to see what happens in the absence of law with a population well-trained to use arms.</blockquote>

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