Who is Blackleaf?

[Joker]

yeah, well try being a fag, a witch AND a gamer and talk to chick. I did. It was ammusing for a while.

How do u talk to him? Does he have like a weekly chat hour or something? I think I'll pretend to be a gay Jewish black gamer, who likes to pee on church grounds. See how he likes that .

Edit: Btw, that's a B@d@$$ sig.

 

[Angelsboi]

i emailed him =)

 

[Henry]

I learned long ago that the best way to refute an adversary - is to see what he has to say. Chick never learned that message; he spouts biblical passages that seem to back him up, he uses only the most choice out-of-context pieces of a D&D manual to back himself up, and restates the same case over again.

Chick's essays are like a vaccination - it ain't pleasant, it can make you sick, but after having read it enough, you become inoculated to tripe, now knowing the worst of their arguments.


I will say one thing, that holds true for anyone with religious faith - anything that becomes a stumbling-block to your faith, is not good for your spiritual well-being - whether it's RPG's, fast cars, your job, or strawberry jam on toast. If one finds their faith being put second to something else in their lives, it's best to re-evaluate one's priorities.

However, it's not inherent in that thing - it's in how you use it, and how important that thing becomes to you compared to your faith. The old adage, "too much of any one thing is bad for you," has a lot of truth to it.

 

[cardinal sinister]

Just talking about that guy gives him credibility. I've been gaming for two and hal decades now...it wasn't D&D that turned me into a psychopathic monster...

it was college.

 

[Umbran]

So, you going to follow up with legal action? If you don't, you now make all gamers look bad.

PC's right about this. Don't threaten to do it if you don't really intend to back it up.

Personally, I think trying to initiate legal action is a Bad Move. People like Chick thrive on confrontation. If you lose, you make gamers look bad. If you win, you make him look like a martyr, and he gets to rant on how he's getting persecuted by evil gamers. It's a no-win scenario.

Plus, the lawyers areound ehre might know better, but I'm not sure that you can really classify his rantings as slander or libel. They are not directed at specific individuals. In order to have such a suit succeed, I think you have to prove that you, personally, have been measurably harmed (no suits on behalf of gamers everywhere). You also have to show that his claims are demonstrably false. Showing that his position is weak is insufficient. You must be able to prove that he is knowingly lying.

Can you prove that gamers don't go to Hell?

 

[Piratecat]

Anyways, I always thought Ms. Frost was dead sexy.

Although the preacher at the end looks like Alex Trebek.

Hey, is Debbie playing a wizard or a cleric? Or a cleric named "Wizard"? Sheesh, so confusing!

 

[Angelsboi]

Well if its Hell is true and its true what they say about gamers and gay people ...

Satan has been overthrown, everyone will be dancing all night, there will be tons of cute guys and ill have the greatest D&D game going on.

I mean if gay people *are* in Hell, then we've been there long enough to install Central Air

 

[Redleg06]

I could e-mail him saying I am a priest of the Inquisistion (yes it still exists, in a much less interesting form) and that Martin Luther was a beast of the apocolypse who is leading all non-catholic christians on the road to hell. Wonder how he'll like that?

(I don't actually believe that BTW! )

 

[King_Stannis]

i emailed them once, not because of the now famous/infamous "dark dungeons", but some tripe about the jesuits and their connection to the nazis. they got hitler's date of death wrong, so i emailed telling them. they were very friendly in their response, i should add.

 

[Malhavoc]

I thought you could only sue if you -lost- something. Being a part of the community is one thing, but you'd have to get the people who own D&D/other rpgs to sue.