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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7999115" data-attributes="member: 5100">I don't necessarily object to those terms, but I can't use at least the demon side because I've been playing D&amp;D since well before 2E and my home brew setting had a sect of elven knights who use a specially designed sabre/scimitar called a tanea, from which they derive their name -- tanari. I always thought it would have been amusing to have had dates on my campaign notes so I could try for a &quot;prior work&quot; claim on TSR. (Yes, I know it wouldn't have flown.)As far as D&amp;D promoting &quot;the devil&quot;, I always thought that was silly. As an adult, though, I have the hindsight to be able to say that, while I was raised in essentially an Easter and Christmas (at best) household, I'm a Christian, today, because I played D&amp;D. In creating a world and trying to understand how history &quot;works&quot;, for lack of a better phrase, I studied the ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Europe. It's pretty hard to do that without studying Christianity, for good or ill. Turns out that, once I separated the stupidity of humanity from it, I actually thought it was a good idea. Obviously, YMMV, but most critics stop dead when a long time church elder tells them, essentially, that D&amp;D is what brought him to Christianity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 7999115, member: 5100"] I don't necessarily object to those terms, but I can't use at least the demon side because I've been playing D&D since well before 2E and my home brew setting had a sect of elven knights who use a specially designed sabre/scimitar called a tanea, from which they derive their name -- tanari. I always thought it would have been amusing to have had dates on my campaign notes so I could try for a "prior work" claim on TSR. (Yes, I know it wouldn't have flown.) As far as D&D promoting "the devil", I always thought that was silly. As an adult, though, I have the hindsight to be able to say that, while I was raised in essentially an Easter and Christmas (at best) household, I'm a Christian, today, because I played D&D. In creating a world and trying to understand how history "works", for lack of a better phrase, I studied the ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Europe. It's pretty hard to do that without studying Christianity, for good or ill. Turns out that, once I separated the stupidity of humanity from it, I actually thought it was a good idea. Obviously, YMMV, but most critics stop dead when a long time church elder tells them, essentially, that D&D is what brought him to Christianity. [/QUOTE]

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