is D&D evil? Thoughts please

[alsih2o]

Which has not killed nearly as many people as governments have- so is being poltically active something "wrong" due to bad things having been done with its power?

FD

governments have killed for multiple reasons...usually unconnected...christians kill and slaughter over and over again despite a "law" in their own religion that forbids this.

i see a HUGE gulf between the two.

 

[Ramien Meltides]

Do a web search for Mike Stackpole's "Pulling Report"... you'll find it very informative on why roleplaying has such a bad rap.

 

[Shiv]

burn pagan burn!!!!!

That's "long-haired hippie pagan freak", to you.

As for the rest of you, and your comments on this topic. Well stated, all. This is a pet peeve of mine considering I still catch crap from my mom about gaming.

 

[UD]

My Dad introduced me to DnD. He's a Priest in the Church of England. he dosn't think its evil, neither do I...

I do have a freiend who thinks Im a satan worshiping freak, I agree to disagree with him cos hes not quite all there, bit to fundamentalist.

 

[LostSoul]

i see a HUGE gulf between the two.

I see this thread falling into a HUGE gulf and burning in the pits.

 

[kreynolds]

Re: Re: Re: Re: is D&D evil? Thoughts please

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You misunderstand me. My point is that it doesn't matter if he's a Born Again or not. I don't care one way or the other. My other point is that I will give a man who believes in the bible nor more precedence than I would a man who believes in Faiths & Pantheons when it comes to the moral issues of playing D&D.

 

[VoodooGroves]

My response.

D&D is a game. By nature, they are not evil. However, many people recognize the addictive components of games paired with individuals who already have psychological conditions that essentially make the line between reality and fantasy blurred.

Then again, a woman here had her hair done on Friday and left her two kids in the car for 5 hours and cooked their brains. I'm doubting she ever cracked a D&D book so the cynic in me would say "evil and ignorance exist everywhere". Are cars evil? How about the sun? In either case, someone of the right (wrong?) psychological profile can still make incredibly stupid, selfish and dangerous decisions.

Its the whole "guns don't kill people, people kill people" issue....only, D&D doesn't actually give you a weapon - so it isn't the gun. It's the movie with the gun in it or the nightly news.

To sum up:
(1) Role-play, don't role-be.
(2) Nothing is as scary as:

 

[King_Stannis]

....Ask Samuel L. Jackson's character in Pulp fiction. Quoting scripture can be damn impressive.

It's just not very convincing to people who do need some kind of logical argument.

Ezekial something or other, was it not? "the path of the righteous man is beset....". i always liked that part of the movie, when he busted that out.

pretty much my whole family has become born again. thankfully, though, my mother, despite her concerns, never stood in my way. she simply needs assurance every once in a while that it's not satanic. it's at those moments that i must hide my goat and alter

it's a shame, too, because i just had a small article published in KotDt and have a legitimate shot at having a "Critical Threat" published in "Dungeon". However, i can't really tell any of my family. not because they don't understand (i wouldn't expect them to), but because they would barrage me with chain emails, calls to save my soul, etc. the fact that we are raising our children catholic only makes it worse, but that's another story.

it's a shame. they're good people, but as you say T-B, they can just pull a piece of scripture out for anything. My one born-again brother won't go to my other's annual summer party because there will be drinking there. mind you, no one gets hammered, it's just a social party. most of the people in their 30's and 40's. i was about to pull the wedding feast of cannae passage out, but i figured it wasn't worth it. after all, why would Christ turn water into wine just to cause the wedding guests to sin?

thanks for listening.

 

[Wolfen Priest]

Dude... Yer goin' ta' HELL.

 

[Desdichado]

kreynolds:
You misunderstand me. My point is that it doesn't matter if he's a Born Again or not. I don't care one way or the other. My other point is that I will give a man who believes in the bible nor more precedence than I would a man who believes in Faiths & Pantheons when it comes to the moral issues of playing D&D.

That's exactly why you're the wrong person to be asking advice. Superiority complexes based on your supposedly rational belief system don't really help "the cause." Making comparisons between the Bible and Faiths and Pantheons just highlight your lack of understanding or tolerance (two values that are the supposed hallmarks of liberalism today, yet which I see violated by liberals time and time again. Not saying you're a liberal, just finding a convenient crack to vent through here) making you exactly the kind of ambassador to non-gamers that we want to avoid.