D&D General The Satanic Panic never really died?

[Garthanos]

Yep, also of note, for some religious folk, actively imagining doing something in a way that includes a desire to do it or a wish that you could do it is morally the same as actually doing it.

My children have pointed out I am really bad at roleplaying the bad guys, there are games you can win by doing it entirely without harming anything but its tricky or you can go all dark and kill it all (it has its own difficulties I am sure) and I am not even interested in the one route to success. I am wondering if I have some sort of secular thinking of that sort going on.

Anti intellectualism is... a sin... (yes, intended sarcasm)

And a pervasive one it seems at times.

 

[FrogReaver]

If the rules of D&D were setting neutral, and settings were published separately. None of this would be an issue, because different cultures would play D&D using whichever setting they find to be most fun.

The issue comes up because of baking flavor into the rules.

Maybe - but there are benefits to having flavor baked into rules.

 

[Garthanos]

Maybe - but there are benefits to having flavor baked into rules.

I actually think RuneQuest hurt itself with some of its early baked in flavor. But I do agree.

 

[Ovinomancer]

Maybe for Catholics, but I don't think lack of actual demon names would have made a difference in many protestant churches - like Baptist or Pentecostal etc.

Um... the evangelical faiths are much more likely to take biblical names of demons much more seriously than Catholics, who are non-evangelical.

 

[Yaarel]

Maybe - but there are benefits to having flavor baked into rules.

True.

Even so, I feel it is worth the effort to make each separate setting be the place for flavor baking.

 

[Ovinomancer]

True.

Even so, I feel it is worth the effort to make each separate setting be the place for flavor baking.

GURPS does this. It's super popular.

 

[FrogReaver]

Um... the evangelical faiths are much more likely to take biblical names of demons much more seriously than Catholics, who are non-evangelical.

Maybe - but I think you are missing the bigger point. They wouldn't need demonic names to believe that D&D was demonically inspired - that's just icing on the cake so to speak.

 

[FrogReaver]

True.

Even so, I feel it is worth the effort to make each separate setting be the place for flavor baking.

Less effort isn't one of the benefits I was meaning.

 

[Yaarel]

Less effort isn't one of the benefits I was meaning.

I assumed you meant, you dont want to read a dictionary from cover to cover.

 

[FrogReaver]

I assumed you meant, you dont want to read a dictionary from cover to cover.

nope not that either.