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A friend of mine had his D&D books burned by his parents. I was pretty young at the time and I remember thinking: "Burned? Like book burning? What? That DMG nev
by johngalt 11y ago
A friend of mine had his D&D books burned by his parents. I was pretty young at the time and I remember thinking: "Burned? Like book burning? What? That DMG never hurt anyone!"
I was young and it was my first brush with a moral panic. Changed my perspective. Made me realize that it's not Evil per se that you need to watch out for, but simply regular people who are afraid of something.
- bitwize 11y agoJack Chick instructs his followers in proper D&D material disposal: "Don't throw them away. Burn them!" I guess fire is the only way to get the demons out. Makes you wonder how they thrive in hell.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoSomeone ought to find Jack Chick and get him to play as an Inquisitor in a game of Dark Heresy.
- addled 11y agoBetter to destroy than run the risk someone digs them out of the landfill and reads them. Kind of like hard drives.
- bitwize 11y agoActually I don't think there was any logic behind the directive. It's just a matter of, that's what the sorcerers in Acts 19 did to their magic scrolls when they heard word of the Lord Jesus Christ, so that's what you should do to your D&D materials.
- YeGoblynQueenne 11y agoThe demons are also supposed to suffer torment, in hell. They're not there for their amusement with the souls of the damned, but rather because they rebelled against big G. This bit of Christian mythology does make sense, I find. Actually, a fair few do, it's just that, well, angels and demons, right? Oh and now that I mentioned it, there's an RPG where you play devils or angels duking it out in the land of the living: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Nomine_%28role-playing_game%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Nomine_%28role-playing_game... ... and I even have a hard copy, that I picked up from Oxfam. Hmmm...
- protomyth 11y agoMy Dad gave a fairly elegant defense of D&D to one of my relatives when he saw me reading the Monster Manual. I remember being pretty impressed (I was 12 at the time). Ice fishing sometimes require reading materials. If my Dad had burned ANY of my books that would have probably also burned any relationship. I can only guess at the sense of betrayal, and that's one of those run away and join the circus type events or go to a far way college / join the military life choices.
- gohrt 11y agoWhat does that "ice fishing" statement mean?
- aleksei 11y agoIt means ice fishing is tedious, and some distraction is required.
- protomyth 11y agoand I was way too young for the hot buttered-rums
- qjighap 11y agoI'll assume you live someplace warm. Ice fishing is where you drill a hole in a frozen water body and try to catch fish with a rod through the hole.
- qjighap 11y agoI could have been your friend. I managed to find a different set of people to hang around with and I'll say that wasn't the company that my parents should have preferred. Did you friend benefit from this experience? In fairness it could have freed up time for team sports or community service.