roleplaying people are satanists ;)

[Sanackranib]

oh the misconceptions. I thought that stuff ended in the early 1980's when my dad forbid me to play a game I had never even heard of and couldn't even tell me why I couldn't play it or what it was. naturally being a 10 year old I went out and found out on my own . . .

 

[Nomad4life]

Whoa! Whoa, hold up! What are you guys saying exactly… That you DON’T play D&D as a form of worship to The Great Dark Lord Beast Of The Night!?!

Well then, what in the heck are we playing for? I thought that the whole point of trying to win D&D was to earn the rite of ritual suicide so that we may serve at His side for eternity as musicians in his heavy metal band?

Man, what a rip-off. I want my money back.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Whoa! Whoa, hold up! What are you guys saying exactly… That you DON’T play D&D as a form of worship to The Great Dark Lord Beast Of The Night!?!

Well then, what in the heck are we playing for? I thought that the whole point of trying to win D&D was to earn the rite of ritual suicide so that we may serve at His side for eternity as musicians in his heavy metal band?

Man, what a rip-off. I want my money back.

Aaah, I see! Filthy Lucre has got another dopes money by promising him Eternal Lead Guitar in the Heavy Metal Band of the Beast.

 

[Rel]

So I wonder what a vintage Jack Chick collectible tract would fetch on ebay? I'd be tempted to buy one for the humorous nostalgia value.

As der kluge mentions below, he's ordered a batch of them. He was handing them out like candy at GenCon 2005. I've still got mine in my swag bag.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The house I grew up in would always have Chick Tracts left in the mailbox at least once or twice a month. That is how I came across that little gem, among the many Chick classics. Those are just wonderful.

 

[WayneLigon]

Regardless of the tract's numerous Dungeons and Dragons snafus, had Chick ever once talked to the average gamer when he wrote that? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have said that the groups were predominately comprised of totally bangable women and run by foxy older ladies.

Yeah, another thing to notice about Chick's stuff is the amazing thread of misogyny
that runs through a lot of them. At the time it was written, there was still a lot of silliness about how women's groups led women to practice witchcraft because of it's matriarchal ties. Therefore, it's not Debbie or Marcie or ever Ms Frost's fault; they're just weak-willed women who need a strong guy like Mike or Alex Trebek (or whoever the speaker guy is) to lead them out of darkness.

 

[Wil]

and here's a Vampiric approach to the same comic.

I wouldn't call Epsilon Minus' satire "The Vampiric Take", because his satire is really lashing out at the goth/industrial "scene" and is not really about rpgs at all.

 

[Thurbane]

www.koolpages.com/superjesus/

Check out the episode about roleplaying...hilarious!

Anyway, I remember back when we were still at school, one of the players "dropped out" of the game after discovering religion. Mysteriously, we found an "anti-D&D" leaflet dropped in one of our mailboxes one day.

Needless to say we all had a good laught at it next session. It's been years since I read it, but my favorite part was something like "The Monster Manual (1E) contains the word DEMON no less than 74 times between pages 54 and 61".

Perhaps because it was the section on demons?

Also, the tidbit that D&D promotes "homosexuality and cannibalism".

"Sorry Jim, you rolled a natural 1 - you know what that means...you gotta eat Rob!"

 

[Nyeshet]

The first time I read that thing I thought it was a satire regarding the way people 'used' to think about D&D back in the 80s. I actually considered writing a letter congradulating them on successfully satirizing the ignorance and oddities many of that period had towards D&D and RPGs in general. I never got around to writing that letter. A few months later I was somewhat glad I had not, as I finally realized that the thing was serious and not meant as a satire or joke.

Thankfully things have lighted up a lot since the 80s, but some of that strangeness is still around. In the news only a week ago there was a woman trying to get HP banned from her local library (or was it her child's school's library?), stating that the book educated those children that read it in the religion Wicca, and that it therefore violated the separation of Church and State and should not be allowed in the school library (yeah, it was the school library, as I recall). As I recall, her request was denied, so it seems some sanity still exists in this world.

 

[Imagicka]

Greetings…

I don’t know if it was updated. It doesn’t look like it to me. The Copyright date hasn’t changed, so chances are, neither has the artwork or text. That was my favourite tract.

I first came across it when someone had slipped one of these tracts into a locker that the D&D Club was using in my high school. My D&D buddies had a great laugh over it. We didn’t know if someone had specifically targeted that locker with that tract, or that some higher power was at work here, making such a coincidence happen.

I wish my DMs were raven-haired, gothic mistresses that were able to induct me into pagan ritualistic occult ‘training’ like this woman Ms. Frost in the tract obviously is.

I just love how everyone looks so evil when they become pagan practioners of the dark arts of D&D. Also, what the heck are they burning in that tremendous bonfire at the end, in the last panel? Looks suspiciously cultish to me! Oh, it’s occult paraphernalia is it? I never did trust anyone who said we should burn books. You know who else burned books don’t you?

I wouldn’t go as far to say that anyone who believes in these tracts are ‘sick’. Mostly ignorant.

Oh, I’m sure if you look, there is probably a tract that is about Harry Potter as well… Ahh, yes… http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5012/5012_01.asp

Oh look! They have a cave tr… er… DVD… http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/0127.asp

Also, there is a lovely little mention about it on the Wikipedia site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_potter