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[Voadam]

The question is: Who is right? When not looking at Christians vs. Muslims / Bhudda. but at Christians vs. D&D there are a few interesting points. What actually is the problem?

The problem is that high-magic, low morality campaigns can have a bad influence on Christians when they can not distinguish between reality and fantasy.
I agree with that. I would even say that the above is also true for non-Christians.

When somebody "CAN NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN REALITY AND FANTASY" I would think that many innocuous or benign things could influence such a person in ways with bad results.

The "high-magic, low morality campaigns" component of your statement seems like it could be replaced by pretty much anything.

 

[Piratecat]

know her? are you sure you should be saying that with your wife posting to this same site?

Didn't you know? She was in the group. That's her circled below. She played the paladin, and everyone else used to try and get her to violate her alignment. Apparently it was some kind of an in joke.

She tells me that Ms. Frost had the biggest DM screen she's ever seen, but that her combats were too damn slow.

 

[diaglo]

Didn't you know? She was in the group. That's her circled below. She played the paladin, and everyone else used to try and get her to violate her alignment. Apparently it was some kind of an in joke.

She tells me that Ms. Frost had the biggest DM screen she's ever seen, but that her combats were too damn slow.

i need to get my mind out of the Good Book.

i thot you meant you "knew" her in the Biblical sense of the word...

 

[Talmun]

Dark Dungeons and it's ilk are the reason I got into D&D in the first place. I read it for the first time and was completely intrigued by the idea of role-playing games, I searched out all the information I could in those pre-internet days in the library; everything I read made me more interested (this was about the time I read LotR for the first time).

Because I had a somewhat strict home life, the only way I could get any information on D&D and fantasy in general was to read literature decrying it. It's funny; my mother had no idea why I wanted to go to the church library so often...I wonder if I should send Mr. Chick a 'testimonial’…

…and then there was ‘Mazes and Monsters’…

 

[sparxmith]

I'm also trying to figure out whether Debbie was playing a wizard, a cleric, a cleric named wizard, or a cleric/wizard named Elfstar. It's so confusing.

She was playing the Mystic Theurge Kit that was only released to members of the Temple of Diana. You had to have a membership card to get it. (My mom was a member, so I got it for my 7th birthday.)

It was a really great kit. WAY over powered: fighter's THAC0, and spell casting abilites of a MU and Cleric. No non-weapon proficiencies, though. That always sucked.

 

[Henry]

She was playing the Mystic Theurge Kit that was only released to members of the Temple of Diana. You had to have a membership card to get it. (My mom was a member, so I got it for my 7th birthday.)

It was a really great kit. WAY over powered: fighter's THAC0, and spell casting abilites of a MU and Cleric. No non-weapon proficiencies, though. That always sucked.

a couple of pieces of verisimilitude - Dark Dungeons was around for 1st edition. Change "kit" to "subclass", "fighter's THACO" to "Fighter's combat chart", and remove non-weapon proficiencies, and you've perfected it.

 

[Talmun]

Am I the only one that's curious why Alex Trebek is the one burning D&D stuff at the end?

 

[sparxmith]

AD&D

a couple of pieces of verisimilitude - Dark Dungeons was around for 1st edition. Change "kit" to "subclass", "fighter's THACO" to "Fighter's combat chart", and remove non-weapon proficiencies, and you've perfected it.

Well, I never got to play the original Dark Dungeons. I only played Advanced Dark Dungeons.

That is until I was introduced to Hackmaster. Now there's a real roleplayer's game.

 

[sparxmith]

Am I the only one that's curious why Alex Trebek is the one burning D&D stuff at the end?

I THOUGHT THAT WAS HIM!

What's really funny is the fact that Prince Valiant is the one to come and lead her to Christ. Do you also notice the number of demon's leaving her as she prays?

 

[Zappo]

Personally, I never even realized that D&D was a target for extremists until I got on the Internet. Several years ago, though, a guy tried to link it to a suicide near my city, but the whole episode was largely ignored (besides, I got a local newspaper to publish a rebuttal). I think that was the only episode of media against D&D that I've witnessed in my country, though I've been told that there were another one or two.

The problem is that high-magic, low morality campaigns can have a bad influence on Christians when they can not distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Of all the threads where I thought the high-magic vs. low-magic thing could pop up...