I found a site with more biast opinions about how DnD is Satanic

[Henry]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

I haven't seen anyone make such a comment yet (*minor applause*) but just for prevention, I wanted to ask anyone thinking of such to avoid any disparaging remarks toward any religion. Just because one specific religious group or organization feels a certain way about a subject does not mean that the whole of that religion is "teh suck," or some such comment. Also, personal attacks on specific individuals is against forum rules, too.

Carry on!

 

[Mighty Halfling]

My own troubles

I have went through similar difficulties with my church about the D&D issue. I even sent a lengthy e-mail to my pastor about the misconceptions and benefits of D&D. We basically decided that neither was going to convince the other on the validity of our points.
Likewise my wife gives me grief about playing. She says its disrespectful and sinful in the eyes of God.
I've explained to her that D&D is less about "spells" and pagan gods than it is about obtaining mathematical superiority, using the rules to your best advantage, tactics, having an enjoyable social experience and a pasttime not unlike watching a sin-filled soap opera or reading newspaper articles about the heinous acts committed upon people by other people.
Likewise, the wife sometimes gets upset about fantasy movies I watch (the most recent example would be "Willow" about a week ago) in which magic is used.
First I told her that in films, magic and monsters are used as a method to tell the story, just like laser beams and spaceships are in a science fiction movie or bullets and tanks in a WWII flick.
Likewise I told her that I know none of the magic and monsters are real and I tend to think about how they created the special effects, rather than the seeming endorsement of such activities.
And of course, I like a good story too.

 

[Rackhir]

I have went through similar difficulties with my church about the D&D issue. I even sent a lengthy e-mail to my pastor about the misconceptions and benefits of D&D. We basically decided that neither was going to convince the other on the validity of our points.
Likewise my wife gives me grief about playing. She says its disrespectful and sinful in the eyes of God.
...
Likewise, the wife sometimes gets upset about fantasy movies I watch (the most recent example would be "Willow" about a week ago) in which magic is used.

That sounds like a tough row to hoe. You have my sympathies. I've talked about some similar issues with a co-worker who at least was a creationist and about his father who is far more fundamentalist than he is. I've come to the conclusion that people with those sorts of beliefs simply do not live in the same universe that we do. Demons, Angels and such are real physical beings to them that they interact with. Trying to convince them otherwise is generally about as successful trying to persuade you and me that our computers aren't real. It's a very deep and wide chasm between their worlds and ours, that is tough to bridge.

 

[VirgilCaine]

tsk.. tsk.. again noone seems to wonder if the kids having a gun might have anything to do with it.

No one seems to wonder that a kid with no safety training--or even common sense--is doing playing with a gun. Pull the trigger, gun goes boom, everyone knows that.

 

[alsih2o]

Finding bias against your group if you are out searching is about as good as it gets in this world folks.

This is nothing with a capital not.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I wish playing D&D gave me the power to curse people or to summon demons. Alas playing a game does not cause one to become proficient at the dark arts or other such fictional sperstitious magical powers!

 

[tarchon]

Yeah, we had that problem too in the beginning, but we houseruled real demons out of it after a while.
Those pesky demons really do ruin the evening.

Belial is a pretty good roleplayer though. I should caution though, that if you summon one up and he wants to join the game, use the point buy method for stats. For some reason, if you let them roll 3d6, they always seem to come up with straight 18s.

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

http://www.exposingsatanism.org/d_d_talk.htm

i was looking up satanism just befor for my own personal intrest(im agnostic) and i found all this stuff about how DnD is bad and evil. I am totally sick of this..if you kill yourself because of DnD you have other mental problems.

Anyway thats my 2cents what do you others think?

[shrug] It's such old news, and it's such a tiny minority of people, who cares? You may as well as angry over Islamic terrorists or neo-Nazis or child pornographers. Why get all angry over some extremists on the internet?

 

[Samothdm]

This is something that I have been wondering about, but since I do not have the earliest editions of D&D, do they encourage you to 'perform rituals' when your character casts a spell?
I mean, I assume that a lot of players jstu say 'my character casts (spell)' during the game right?

Absolutely. The books encourage total immersion in the game, and suggest performing rituals for magic spells as well as buying swords, crosswbows, and axes to "simulate" combat with your "friends".

In the "Top Secret" game I played in the 1980s, following the instructions in the game, I decided to become an actual Columbian Drug Lord even though I don't live in Columbia or use drugs. When I rolled dice for my languages, it said that I knew English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, and Japanese. I had the English part down pretty well, so I took Spanish for my language elective and have spent the better part of the past two decades learning the other languages via "Languages on Tape" or watching PBS's "French for Beginners" at 3:30am.

Also, from D&D, my actual spellcasting knowledge helped to make me stronger and better looking, and these days it's come in handy to help charm people so that I don't get laid off from my job when the agency I work at loses an account.

PS: da speeling tebbirle ere

The heck you say!

 

[Munin]

People don't kill them self because of DnD. It's because of country music.

I'm not sure about suicide, but it does make me break out in an awful rash whenever I hear it.


Seriously though, D&D does lead to Satanism. In fact, up until a couple of weeks ago ol' Beelzebub was a regular at my Wednesday night game. Had to kick him out though. I mean, sure he played a great gnome, but he kept eating all the cheetos and blaming it on Michael. Go figure.