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haikupoet	\| Move to Bottom Author
Rank:none Status: Score: 0 Posts: 423 From: Registered: 08/10/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:04/26/2004 04:37:21) Can't say I was ever a big D&D player, but I was into other role playing games. But that's beside the point -- Catholics, even the strict ones, don't take such a rabid view of RPGs as many fundamentalists do.For those of you who have never played or might be a bit freaked out by the idea, get some friends andgive it a try.It's really all in how you play it, but by and large it's no more malignant than something written by Tolkien (after who much of the D&D canon was based) or CS Lewis. If high fantasy settings don't appeal to you, there's the gothic horror of the White Wolf games, the high-tech worlds of BattleTech and Shadowrun, or even the roll-your-own freeform systems like GURPS, FUDGE, and D20.It's all quite a lot of fun. Don't let those big bad fundy bogeymen scare you away... -------------------------------------------------------------- Trapped behind stained glass/It is hard to see how great/the world really is

phoenixgirl	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 1#
Rank:none Status: Score:0 Posts:638 From: Registered: 03/03/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:04/27/2004 07:08:15) Speaking of rabid fundamentalists' views, have you seen this: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp?repeatfrom3yearsago I just saw it linked through Fark.com (along with this hilarious eBay listing of a man modeling his ex-wife's wedding dress). -------------------------------------------------------------- --Phoenixgirl "I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief." George Eliot "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating." Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country (I promise I read this before it was an Oprah book club book)

lostandconfused	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 2#
Rank:none Status: Score:0 Posts:4 From: Registered: 02/18/2004 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:04/28/2004 02:40:38) http://www.watershedonline.ca/community/personal/SeanH/8bit.html

Chirpy	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 3#
Status: From: Registered: 03/07/2003 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:04/28/2004 15:25:52) That chick tract could be turned around to show fundies at a bible study expecting total commitment from a new member and then rejecting her on a whim and then being too busy to talk to here. Perhaps Dok could do the honours.

haikupoet	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 4#
Rank:none Status: Score:0 Posts:423 From: Registered: 08/10/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:04/28/2004 22:12:30) Reply to : Chirpy That chick tract could be turned around to show fundies at a bible study expecting total commitment from a new member and then rejecting her on a whim and then being too busy to talk to here. Perhaps Dok could do the honours. There have been "Dark Dungeons" parodies done, though not quite along those lines (one about being Goth, I believe). Someone actually did something very similar to what you're suggesting to "The Last Generation", though, turning a pseudo-Catholic-theocracy nightmare into something more worthy of A Handmaid's Tale, with domineering fundies instead of "new-age healers". -------------------------------------------------------------- Trapped behind stained glass/It is hard to see how great/the world really is

Dok	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 5#
Rank:none Status: Score:0 Posts:584 From: Registered: 06/28/2001 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:04/29/2004 15:29:34) I just remember Brendan Fraser in Airheads, "I used to be a geek. I used to play D&D and everything... (*gasps from the crowd)" Aiiigh... Sorry, no time for mock chik tracts the baby and contract werk have devoured my life whole. Even my wifey poo never sees me anymore. -------------------------------------------------------------- Every time you lay off an American worker you also lay off an American consumer. When you export jobs you also export the ability to pay for goods manufactured for the American market. Let's not vote for Bush again this year.

AthenaMarina	\| Move to Top 6#
Status: From: Registered: 08/22/2003 Time spent: 0 hours	RE:Dungeons and Dragons is 30 years old (Date Posted:12/02/2007 10:48:16) I have never played it but would probably enjoy it. Maybe it wasn't very big in New Zealand where I grew up? I don't know anyone who'd know how to play it either. Shame! I do remember all the talk about how "bad" it was supposed to be and how people had killed themselves over it or something! -------------------------------------------------------------- Yes I AM too cool for church! Jesus is NOT waaay cool I AM! Am I"m real and he"s NOT SO...! I used to be into Jesus But now I"ve kicked the habit Now I have REALLY seen "the light" and know the REAL truth and the Truth - not the lie of christianity! - has set me free! "..When you"re inside the pig, it"s so warm and comfortable and feels wonderful. Then you get out and you realise the hideous monster that"s been accomodating you!" (From a book, talking about during and after bad relationships but SO appropriate here too!)
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