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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5445635" data-attributes="member: 83796">The only way for players to tackle this kind of 'thinking' is to be aware of it and to actively challenge the views of those presenting such views. That starts with questioning their integrity, i.e. why is a 'clergyman', a reporter or a politician attacking a harmless game with a lot of unscientific nonsense when there are far greater more obvious and proven 'ungodly' behaviours out there. For example, why aren't they spending their evenings writing letters for Amnesty International to stop getting people torture? Or instead of giving speeches helping out at the local homeless shelter? We know that torture and homelessness damages people; there is no scientific evidence that the roleplaying techniques used in doctors' and astronaut's training causes harm - so why are these people lying is a valid question. Surely lying is particularly ungodlyShould be called out every time. That said, there's not a lot of point in all the recent effort folks like Mike Mearls seem to be putting into making RPGs more accessible, appealing to wider audiences and (according to the Twitter posts) getting into social networking apps for RPGs (that'll likely be the PC, campaign and adventure interactive logs or lifestreams I've rambled about before) when someone then goes and makes 'The Book of Vile Darkness' movie. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></blockquote>

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