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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7732656" data-attributes="member: 6925649">Well its a game, why wouldn't 8 to 12 year olds want to play Dungeons & Dragons? Kids have lots of time on their hands, unlike adults who have jobs. Anyway the people who were offended had a misunderstanding, the demons and devils were fictional, no actual demons were ever summoned during the playing of the game! It is better to think of a god or a goddess as simply a powerful being rather than confuse them with the Christian God spelled with a capital 'G'. Godlike beings are also a staple of science fiction, if you recall 'Q' from Star Trek for example. Pagan deities may be thought of as powerful beings, they have powers and are immortal, but they aren't infallible and they can be killed. They are simply more powerful than your standard human, but they aren't cosmic beings, they aren't all powerful, all knowing, or omnipresent in the way the Christian and other monotheistic versions of God are presented.Why would Hollywood have problems portraying the Forgotten Realms? They did Middle Earth after all with the Lord of the Rings movie and the Hobbit. Hollywood also did multiple versions of Clash of the Titans. and don't forget the television shows Hercules and Xena, those too featured various pagan gods. I don't see the Forgotten Realms as all that different from what was done before.You made your point about the D&D cartoon, maybe they were overly concerned about people's religious sensibilities, but there was another D&D cartoon which did have clerics and gods in it. There was a cartoon made out of the Dragonlance Novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight.</blockquote>

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