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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1524974" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>One extra resource:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b3a32d13d29.htm" target="_blank">http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b3a32d13d29.htm</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm impressed - I was going to reply, I go away for about ten minutes, and the thread is flooded with resources when I get back! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>The thing to note about the religious sites that come out against D&D and role-playing is that they all reference the EXACT SAME 20-year old studies, secondhand accounts, and "experts." These so-called experts (people like Pat Pulling, Dr. Thomas Radecki, and Mr. Shnoebelen get most of their facts wrong, and many have been discredited as early as the late 1980's for everything from perjury to revoked licenses. Michael Stackpole's Pulling report is the most comprehensive document you need, because most of the sources he debunks are STILL used in negative critiques today. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /></p><p></p><p>For instance, the sources who claim that D&D players "become their characters" are grossly misstating the issue. They "become" their character no more than Elijah Wood "becomes" Frodo the Hobbit, or Tobey Macguire "becomes" Spider-man. As another example, compare the material components in D&D "spells" versus the components used in actual wiccan prayers/spells - they bear only the most superficial resemblances (in the case of using things like iron and silver), to the most ridiculous (using tin-can telephones for sending spells, or Black Dragon's blood for memory enhancement).</p><p></p><p>Oh, well, enough rambling from me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 1524974, member: 158"] One extra resource: [url]http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b3a32d13d29.htm[/url] I'm impressed - I was going to reply, I go away for about ten minutes, and the thread is flooded with resources when I get back! :) The thing to note about the religious sites that come out against D&D and role-playing is that they all reference the EXACT SAME 20-year old studies, secondhand accounts, and "experts." These so-called experts (people like Pat Pulling, Dr. Thomas Radecki, and Mr. Shnoebelen get most of their facts wrong, and many have been discredited as early as the late 1980's for everything from perjury to revoked licenses. Michael Stackpole's Pulling report is the most comprehensive document you need, because most of the sources he debunks are STILL used in negative critiques today. :erm: For instance, the sources who claim that D&D players "become their characters" are grossly misstating the issue. They "become" their character no more than Elijah Wood "becomes" Frodo the Hobbit, or Tobey Macguire "becomes" Spider-man. As another example, compare the material components in D&D "spells" versus the components used in actual wiccan prayers/spells - they bear only the most superficial resemblances (in the case of using things like iron and silver), to the most ridiculous (using tin-can telephones for sending spells, or Black Dragon's blood for memory enhancement). Oh, well, enough rambling from me. [/QUOTE]
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