At least one religious forum sports a recurring discussion whether or not playing D&D is sinful. Areas of concern is that D&D is demonic and the player character worshipping non-Christian gods is considered as a major problem.

Then again, these same folks take issue at the naming of the GNU bash shell (Bourne Again Shell), but migrate their PCs to Linus anyway because Microsoft/Gates have donated to a pro-choice organization. My memory might play a trick on me, but I seem to recall that somebody wanted to create a Christian version of D&D.

Sure. There’s even a chick tract about the dangers of playing D&D and its hilarious reading to anyone who knows anything about it (or is still this side of brain-death.

But they point is - with all the fantasy content of games, movies and so on being so popular, it has finally gone out of fashion to bash it (at least in mainstream media). And I think thats something to celebrate.

One of these days I have to download all the tracts. Pretty much anything they oppose must be a good thing, mustn’t it?

I have never paid much attention to D&D in the press, so I’ll take your word for it. Well, here’s another quote:

It is ridiculous claiming that video games influence children. For instance, if Pac-man affected kids born in the eighties, we should by now have a bunch of teenagers who run around in darkened rooms and eat pills while listening to monotonous electronic music.

Anybody know who to attribute it to?

I believe that quote is from George Carlin although I am not sure. And recently that quote has become true although I doubt because of video games. If you want to see teenagers running around in the dark listening to electronic music and eating pills all you have to do is go to a rave.

Ahh I looked it up in google and it is attributed to dozens of people [usually the poster] and a lot of -anon’s.

Sepharo, that was a wonderfully observant comment! Great stuff

I was gonna say that.  Though it should be pointed out that the raver generation came after Pac-Man.

I read that Chick tract and was completely offended.

I’ve raised literally dozens of characters past seventh level over the years.  And not once, ever was I invited into a secret coven.

Was I just not evil enough?

This seems like an appropriate time to link to the infamous Kurtz tract, which is a brilliant parody of Dark Dungeons.

Jesus Kills

I never liked D&D, but that’s probably because I played with adolescent boys who, like in real life, disconnected their brains when confronting mortality.  They’d decide it was a good idea to go into a dark cave, they’d get whacked by a troll or something, and then I’d have to sit around for fifteen minutes while they rolled up new characters.  Repeat ad nauseam.