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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Djeta Thernadier" data-source="post: 1526464" data-attributes="member: 12043">Well, first of all, you have to realize that when people are EXTREME in their religion, they tend to become misguided and fanatical. Most religious people think these crazies are insane too. I game with a few religious people. The really extreme ones tend to be the ones who are writing this negative stuff. People like everyone's favorite Mr. Chick. <img src="http://www.disboards.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> D&D is a fantasy game. That , to me, means you can make it whatever "rating" you want. You can have a very tame G rated adventure where the PCs are all good and they go off to do things like save unicorns and princesses. In a game like this, there would be no mention of demons and graphic deaths or battles. On the flip side, you can have an NC17 adventure where all the PCs are off whoring , slaughtering innocent townsfolk (and describing it in graphic ways) and otherwise wreaking havoc.It's up to the group how they want to run their games.I personally would not want to play in a game that was too tame or too brutal. I think most gamers prefer moderate games, where the main focus is the storyline, not sensless violence.As far as the extreme religious folks' claims that D&D is satanic, I don't really know what to tell them. They have probably never read any of the books, and think anything that encourages "fantasy" is evil. Dungeons, dragons, magic and the other various places and creatures within the realms of the D&D world are associated with demons and satan to them. Not to mention the games often have clerics who worship different gods. They also tend to want to ban Harry Potter and anything else revolving around magic and mysticism. You also will sometimes hear about some psychotic person who commits a crime or something and if they find D&D stuff in that person's belongings, they will point it out. I think D&D is good. To rational people, who have read the books, and played the game, or known people who played, D&D is a way to use your imagination, read, write, practice math and logic skills, help work out your memory, understand spacial relations, meet new people and interact with people socially (both with your gaming group in real life, as well as with your PCs world, in game). It makes you think "What would I do in this situation". It encourages common sense thinking skills. Later on in life, workplaces often have people do role play situations to practice on the job (particularly in customer service jobs, where one person pretends to be the customer, and the other, the person helping them). People who are comfortable with using their imagination like this tend to be better at these excercises (which is impressive to bosses, as a rule). It also helps you to put yourself in someone elses shoes (your PCs) and if you are playing with other people , it teaches you group problem solving and compromise. And deciding priorities.These are all skills that will help people later on in life. Aside from that, there are other things that people might learn from D&D which may or may not help them in real life. People who play will end up knowing a bit about classical mythology and medieval history and weaponry whether they plan on it or not. It can also help with learning new vocabulary words that you don't often hear. So, yes, I think D&D is a very good thing. The people who say it's not have either been severly misguided in their knowledge of D&D or have never even actually played/read a book about it. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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