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Violence, personal power and the occult? You're going to find a lot more "violence" and "personal power" by switching on the TV or going to the library. Anyway,
by mercurial 13y ago
Violence, personal power and the occult? You're going to find a lot more "violence" and "personal power" by switching on the TV or going to the library. Anyway, combat is often (depending on who you play with, but it has been my experience when I played tabletop) a very small part of a scenario.
As for "the occult" in D&D, come on. Throwing a die to check the damage of a fireball never turned anyone into Aleister Crowley.
- mercurial 13y agoThe "violence" part is particularly ironic, considering the amount of God-sanctioned wholesale slaughter in the Bible. Maybe the Bible is incompatible with Christian beliefs as well ? :)
- Noughmad 13y agoA large part of the Bible is incompatible with Christian beliefs. Then again, "Christian beliefs" isn't a well-defined term; it ranges from "there is some guy up there" to "gays are causing the hurricanes".
- QuantumChaos 13y ago>As for "the occult" in D&D, come on. Throwing a die to check the damage of a fireball never turned anyone into Aleister Crowley. I meant that D&D contained occult themes, not that it presented these ideas as factual or encouraged people to take them seriously. A fair reading of my post would have indicated this anyway, since my post started with "While the idea of teenagers literally worshiping Satan was a moral panic..."