That Chick tract brings back memories! I remember when I was introduced to D&D at school by our English teacher. We had some of the books in our school library. Then, suddenly, they weren't. But by then, the genie was out of the bottle. We were already playing. Thank goodness my friend's mom wasn't as ignorant about it as my folks. I had to hide my books and character sheets under the bed like they were some kind of illicit publications! SMH
In the mid-80s, the little church my family attended would pass them out at local grocery stores or whenever they went to visit folks house to house to invite them to church. I don't know how they got a hold of them, but they would always have plenty of them.
I used to find them occasionally in the subway in Toronto. Never found the D&D one, but I wish I had!
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"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing) You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
It is a shame that so many parents fell for the propoganda that they spewed, my Mother fell for it so I had to pull my books out of the garbage and hide them. It was just a couple of years ago I was able to prove to her that they are a misguided hate group :( I feel for anyone else had to suffer due to them.
"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing) You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
Unfortunately there are even extremists in the Christian church (regardless of denominations) that view just about anything outside of the text of the bible to be satanic. Unfortunately they tend to be noisy and convince the easily swayed to join their crusade. A player can take it too far and spend an unhealthy amount of time playing but that's a matter of self control and possibly nonprofessional counseling. Fiction is fiction and as long as a player knows that it's no different than reading or watching fiction or even nonfiction. They want to blame exterior things for their sins instead of looking inside themselves like the bible teaches to root out the sin in their lives. Anyone with a firm foundation isn't going to be swayed by the imagination and humans don't need a game, book, or visual fiction for that. Even two revered Christians, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, wrote the overwhelmingly popular works of fiction that are the foundation of practically all related works including D&D.
Ms. Frost sure is a lousy DM. The Light spell doesn't impose the blinded condition, and Black Leaf was surely entitled to a saving throw against the poison.
Pffff... Like a Cleric would join a witches coven...
At the same time I feel a little insulted... I have been playing RPGs for like 25 years and no one has ever come and offered to put my hard earned skills to good use... I guess I just don't have what it takes to be a bad ass like Debbie.
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.
That Chick tract brings back memories! I remember when I was introduced to D&D at school by our English teacher. We had some of the books in our school library. Then, suddenly, they weren't. But by then, the genie was out of the bottle. We were already playing. Thank goodness my friend's mom wasn't as ignorant about it as my folks. I had to hide my books and character sheets under the bed like they were some kind of illicit publications! SMH
I haven't seen that in decades. Brings back memories. And who can forget the old Mazes and Monsters movie with a very young Tom Hanks?
My word, we don't want to be stimulating our children's imaginations! That will in no way prepare them for a rat-race existence...
Where did you guys see these Chick tracts back then? How were they distributed?
i played throughout the 80s and never heard of them.
In the mid-80s, the little church my family attended would pass them out at local grocery stores or whenever they went to visit folks house to house to invite them to church. I don't know how they got a hold of them, but they would always have plenty of them.
I used to find them occasionally in the subway in Toronto. Never found the D&D one, but I wish I had!
"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing)
You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
It is a shame that so many parents fell for the propoganda that they spewed, my Mother fell for it so I had to pull my books out of the garbage and hide them. It was just a couple of years ago I was able to prove to her that they are a misguided hate group :( I feel for anyone else had to suffer due to them.
Apparently the first amendment is only for religious organizations worshipping imaginary beings.
Someone please write some Black Leaf X Elfstar fanfic!
I think this is the longest quiet stretch in this forum subject whew lol
How can we? Black Leaf's dead!
BTW someone made a movie of this Chick tract.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qc9JiIiOSQ
"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing)
You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
Unfortunately there are even extremists in the Christian church (regardless of denominations) that view just about anything outside of the text of the bible to be satanic. Unfortunately they tend to be noisy and convince the easily swayed to join their crusade. A player can take it too far and spend an unhealthy amount of time playing but that's a matter of self control and possibly nonprofessional counseling. Fiction is fiction and as long as a player knows that it's no different than reading or watching fiction or even nonfiction. They want to blame exterior things for their sins instead of looking inside themselves like the bible teaches to root out the sin in their lives. Anyone with a firm foundation isn't going to be swayed by the imagination and humans don't need a game, book, or visual fiction for that. Even two revered Christians, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, wrote the overwhelmingly popular works of fiction that are the foundation of practically all related works including D&D.
Ms. Frost sure is a lousy DM. The Light spell doesn't impose the blinded condition, and Black Leaf was surely entitled to a saving throw against the poison.
Pffff... Like a Cleric would join a witches coven...
At the same time I feel a little insulted... I have been playing RPGs for like 25 years and no one has ever come and offered to put my hard earned skills to good use... I guess I just don't have what it takes to be a bad ass like Debbie.
Prior editions it did.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.