D&D and satanisim

Of course they haven't. I assume they think "role-playing" a sorcerer involves actually dripping a pentagram in sheep's blood right there on the table. Never mind that that tends to ruin your character sheet.Any Chrisitans here who think D&D is satanic, I'd be happy to run a game for you. I'll even figure out a way to represent the Christian God as a game deity for you to bop unbelievers into your church.

While we're waiting for Christians to jump in, why don't we all talk about our characters? I usually play Roderick Van Helter, a dashing fighter/rogue with an eye for the ladies.

Word. Though sometimes you gotta throw down, kick in the door, and put some loathsome abberations to the sword, you know? I love playing the role but dungeon crawling is fun, too.

The only experience I've had with Forgotten Realms is the NWN campaigns, but those were fun. I'd pick up the FR sourcebook but it's like 40 bucks.I'm all up into the Oriental Adventures book (I played a great Legend of the Five Rings campaign before they went to d20), but that's the only supplement I have.What is Dark Sun? Isn't that part of the Forgotten Realms stuff?

Anyone looking to the Player's Handbook as some kind of occult manual is looking to be sorely disappointed. Here's a typical arcane spell:

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Magic Missle

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Evocation {Force}
Level Sor/Wiz 1
Components V,S
Casting Time 1 action
Range Medium
Targets: Up to five creatures, no two of which can be more than 15 ft. apart
Duration Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes

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A missle of magical energy darts forth from your fingertip and unerringly strikes it's target. The missle deals 1d4+1 points of damage.

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I imagine that the Christian God (Yaweh, the Lamb God, the Fisher of Men) would be Lawful Good, and administer the domains Law, Good, Healing, and Protection. His favored weapon would be the whip (used by Jesus to clear the temple) and his sigil would be the Cross, obviously. I don't know why any of the fantasy genre, which is more or less all based on Tolkien, would be any different. What's the difference between Gandalf or Merlin and Harry Potter?

Can we presume that you believe the Bible to be Satanic, then? After all the point of the Old Testament is not that God is the only God, just that he's the biggest one. (If you missed that, there's a few passages you need to read a little more closely.) Well, fuck, by this reasoning, neither does anything you're not doing in a church. Walkin in a park? Satanism, if you're not doing it for God. Helping your mom take out the trash? Satanism, if you're doing it for her and not for God.It's just a game. You play it in fellowship with your friends. Isn't fellowship something Christians are supposed to seek?[This message has been edited by crashfrog, 04-10-2004]

Played some Vampire: The Whatever LARP, it was ok... nothing like what I think you're talking about.I made foam padded swords (of a number of different types and cultures, including foam padded katanas, which I've never really seen) for my Gaming Society and became the unbeaten champion. That's about it. What you're talking about sounds like hella fun.

The leaders of our gaming society double as rules adjudicators, whose rulings are final. We take that responsiblity pretty seriously and we've been known to make rules rulings that are immediately disadvantageous to us in a game we're playing, just for fairness.I'd say it works pretty well. Rules-lawyering isn't so bad if you all agree to appoint the lawyer.

From what I've heard, the upcoming World of Warcraft might just be your thing. They're getting rid of the boredom, I guess. Never got into em. I don't like text-based games.Try Neverwinter Nights. You might find the experience a lot like the MUD's you're used to.

Players don't do the rituals. Their characters do.If Bob, with a a 7 Clr, casts "Magic Circle Against Evil", he doesn't actually get out of his chair and draw a circle on the floor in powdered silver. He just says that his character does. What the hell is he talking about?Boy, I'm glad we got a bunch of bs from people who have no experience with the game. That was really useful.

Did you ever play "Progress Quest"? (Maybe "play" isn't the right word...) It takes the leveling fun of Everquest and removes the tedium of actual gameplay. And it's free! Go to Progress Quest.

Well, it has a bitheist theology, I guess, but I don't really see much in the way of allegory.Who's the Christ figure? Frodo? Aragorn?Maybe the SM makes it more clear, but I couldn't make it all the way through.It's much closer to being a rip-off of Athurian legend than a retelling of the New Testament. Your milage may vary, I guess.

Ok, yeah, I can kind of see that... I dunno. It's tenuous at best, if you ask me. But you're entitled to your interpretation.Anyway that doesn't seem so much like ressurection as it is like assumption - like how Jesus is assumed into heaven. But that's a Catholic quibble. Aragorn = Arthur
Gandalf = Merlin
Narsil = ExcaliburFrom stuff I've read about Tolkien part of what he was doing was attempting to create a uniquely British mythology, like the Arthur stuff before the French influence. Maybe not a "rip-off", but I could see it as an attenpt to fuze arthurian-style romanticism with loosely Christian themes.

Oh, I totally agree. I mean, do I even have to mention Wagner's Ring Cycle?Point taken about Tolkien and Catholicism. Though, if you looked hard enough, you could find Christian themes in Dude, Where's My Car?

While we're on the subject, you guys should check out the Lords of the Rhymes.Hobbiton, it's on! Seriously... a Gollum beatbox?This message has been edited by crashfrog, 06-16-2004 08:09 AM