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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Strickland" data-source="post: 6229521" data-attributes="member: 6753119">I coincidentally stumbled across this within the past couple of weeks:&quot;Dungeons and Dragons is a tragic and tangled subject. It is&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; essentially a feeding program for occultism and witchcraft.&quot; &quot;On top&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; of that, the second issue is that the materials themselves, in many&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; cases, contain authentic magical rituals.&quot; &quot;There is hardly a game&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; in which the players do not indulge in murder, arson, torture, rape&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; or highway robbery.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp" target="_blank">http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp</a>The &quot;cartoon&quot; is here in all of its horrifying drama:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp" target="_blank">http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp</a>Why, I just had NO idea!Actually, the former sites were referenced by this pro-gaming site&nbsp; (theescapist.com) and that is how I learned about them [which is&nbsp; sometimes what happens when you search about the Web for all things&nbsp; D&amp;D]:Dark Dungeons&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.theescapist.com/darkdungeons.htm" target="_blank">http://www.theescapist.com/darkdungeons.htm</a>And if you are not scared away by now, an &quot;advocacy&quot; FAQ:<a href="http://www.theescapist.com/basic_gaming_faq.htm" target="_blank">http://www.theescapist.com/basic_gaming_faq.htm</a>Note: I did not do more than briefly glance at all of the above&nbsp; material, pro or con, but I did find several allegations to be &quot;over the&nbsp; top&quot;. I endorse or warrant nothing from the above, but provide it as&nbsp; &quot;food for thought&quot; if any are so interested in indulging, and because of&nbsp; this thread subject and some comments.However, I did rather enjoy a quote from an article at theescapist:&quot;Abusus non tollit usum. (Abuse does not take away use.) &quot;And to the point of the article regarding the gamer judge: I already&nbsp; emailed my family and friends about this. A couple of points I'm&nbsp; interested in sharing:[Regardless of what that person did] &quot;look at the slant&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; regarding &quot;make-believe&quot; gaming, probably to boost the civil&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; case--but at what cost to public perception&quot;And, I had bold-ed phrases from more complete quotes, but assemble now just the crunchy bits for sake of emphasis:&quot;...disturbed by how&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; involved Peterson has been with role-playing games and related&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; activities...&quot;&nbsp; &quot;...caught up in&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; the world of role-playing games.&quot;&quot;...level of immaturity...&quot;&nbsp; &quot;...Orcus, a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; character described as a bloated,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 15-foot-tall demon with ram-like&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; horns, bat wings and a long tail with a poisonous tip...&quot;&quot;...he imagined being transformed into a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Smurf, the fictional blue creatures that inhabit mushrooms...&quot;&quot;...got hooked on fantasy games...&quot; [while young, below 13 certainly]&nbsp; &quot;...ghosts and mad scientists to werewolves,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; vampires and witches.&quot;“We don’t know if he’s demon lord in the courtroom or if he’s&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Judge Peterson in the courtroom&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tom Strickland, post: 6229521, member: 6753119"] I coincidentally stumbled across this within the past couple of weeks: "Dungeons and Dragons is a tragic and tangled subject. It is essentially a feeding program for occultism and witchcraft." "On top of that, the second issue is that the materials themselves, in many cases, contain authentic magical rituals." "There is hardly a game in which the players do not indulge in [COLOR=#ff0000][B]murder, arson, torture, rape or highway robbery[/B][/COLOR]." [URL]http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp[/URL] The "cartoon" is here in all of its horrifying drama: [URL]http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp[/URL] Why, I just had NO idea! Actually, the former sites were referenced by this pro-gaming site (theescapist.com) and that is how I learned about them [which is sometimes what happens when you search about the Web for all things D&D]: Dark Dungeons [URL]http://www.theescapist.com/darkdungeons.htm[/URL] And if you are not scared away by now, an "advocacy" FAQ: [URL]http://www.theescapist.com/basic_gaming_faq.htm[/URL] Note: I did not do more than briefly glance at all of the above material, pro or con, but I did find several allegations to be "over the top". I endorse or warrant nothing from the above, but provide it as "food for thought" if any are so interested in indulging, and because of this thread subject and some comments. However, I did rather enjoy a quote from an article at theescapist: "[I]Abusus non tollit usum. (Abuse does not take away use.)[/I] " And to the point of the article regarding the gamer judge: I already emailed my family and friends about this. A couple of points I'm interested in sharing: [Regardless of what that person did] "look at the slant regarding "make-believe" gaming, probably to boost the civil case--but at what cost to public perception" And, I had bold-ed phrases from more complete quotes, but assemble now just the crunchy bits for sake of emphasis: "...[B]disturbed by how involved Peterson has been with role-playing games and related activities..." "...[/B][B]caught up in the world of role-playing games[/B]." "...[B]level of immaturity..." "...[/B][B]Orcus, a character described as a [COLOR=#ff0000]bloated[/COLOR], 15-foot-tall [COLOR=#ff0000]demon[/COLOR] with ram-like horns, bat wings and a long tail with a poisonous tip..."[/B] "...he imagined being [B]transformed into a Smurf, the fictional blue creatures that inhabit mushrooms[/B]..." "...[B]got hooked on fantasy games..." [/B][while young, below 13 certainly][B] "...[/B][B]ghosts and mad scientists to werewolves, vampires and witches[/B]." “[B]We don’t know if he’s demon lord in the courtroom or if he’s Judge Peterson in the courtroom[/B]" [/QUOTE]

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