Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
At some point I'm gonna collect bible quotes to use as cleric or paladin spell verbal components.
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Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
Yep. Many of the people I play with are as well. (In fact, two of us are pastors). I wonder if the question is because back in the early 80s there was a pretty vocal (but relatively small) contingent of Christians who decried DnD as devil worship and/or dangerous for you.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
I'd love to get our pastor to play, but he's too busy.
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Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
Sounds like a lovely arc, I do a homebrew world so I needed to find a good reason why demons (abyssals as I call em) and devils (infernals) were different, so I made the abyss the living representation of sin. They're sin-tient if you will. A tangible representation of a spiritual concept. Devils on the other hand are exactly what you'd expect from biblical demons
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DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms- The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon- Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland -Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF!- Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
They haven't encountered any as of yet, but I like to keep things prepared in case it arises. Right now they're dealing with floating islands and a dragon seeking to create true life, but let me tell you, elves were a pain in the rear to fit. They live forever!
Honestly wasn't expecting so many fellow Christian players. I've found a group of people at my College who play and now I play it more than I play video games.
For some reason I've never understood, there's some sort of negative stigma surrounding DnD in some Christian circles. The DnD universe isn't too different from other fantasy like Chronicles of Narnia or The Hobbit.
Honestly wasn't expecting so many fellow Christian players. I've found a group of people at my College who play and now I play it more than I play video games.
For some reason I've never understood, there's some sort of negative stigma surrounding DnD in some Christian circles. The DnD universe isn't too different from other fantasy like Chronicles of Narnia or The Hobbit.
There was a major moral panic surrounding D&D in the 80s. TSR had to make many changes to combat the allegations that the game was "satanic", including renaming devils/demons and if I remember correctly limiting the uses of poison and removing (or renaming?) the assassin class. It's pretty easy to Google the details, I'm sure the story's been covered many times.
The only video games were like Pong and Space Invaders; no Skyrim or Warcraft. There was no Harry Potter. The Lord of the Rings books were not mainstream reading, and the animated movies looked trippy and psychedelic.
This meant that parents in the 80s had no frame of reference for what D&D even was, unlike the way they do now.
What they did hear about was James Dallas Egbert's suicide being incorrectly blamed on D&D or 60 Minutes' hatchet job on D&D. For religious parents, they may have seen the nude woman on the cover of one of the White Box books, or the PHB and DMG with red, horned monsters on the covers (an idol and an efreet) that sure looked like the Devil.
My mom explained to me that most parents just declared "No Dragon and Dungeon for you!" because they simply didn't want to spend the time and energy to investigate it when there were so many other things for kids to do. When I became a dad, I understood that.
The girls I gamed with starting in 1983 actually were big Narnia fans, which was how they explained D&D to their Christian parents. My secular mom didn't let me play D&D until we saw Mazes and Monsters on TV. The movie was so bad that she realized it had to be just a moral panic. [She still bought into the anti-comic-book moral panic, though.]
I did read a Mormon youth leader who concluded that D&D was no more dangerous than "a waste of time."
I'm 50, and I could tell you about our Principal who threw me out of his office for trying to start a gaming club, or the university student center supervisor who wouldn't let us play in her dining hall, saying "I go by the BIBLE!" but that's what I remember from the bad old days.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
Even in the '90s there was still some lingering stigma of the moral panic issue.
I was in a metal band with the son of a preacher. We lived in a small town far away from anything bigger, and the preacher could understand that loud and heavy music wasn't automatically "evil" or about negative things, and there were even bands that would call themselves "christian metal" because the message of their songs was aligned with christian morals while the genre was heavy metal... but when it came to D&D, I was nearly run out of his house.
In the end, the preacher did allow me to make my case for why I believed he was misjudging D&D, and after listening while I told him of his son's paladin seeking out wrongs to right and evils to dispatch he changed his mind about the game. I strongly believe, though, that had I not been calm and collected and interested in discussing the matter with him - like if I'd have just gone "This is BS!" and stormed out of the house - that he'd never have had the realization that what he'd heard about the game extolling devil-worship was misinformation.
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I'm just curious: is there anyone here who is Christian? I myself am Christian, and I was wondering if anyone else here is.
I sure am. Going to church tomorrow.
Walton Gibson - Human Cleric, Level 1
I'm not, but I have been (and am still) DM for people of varying faith, including Christians.
Most people I play with are devout Christians, including myself.
My first experience with D&D was in Catholic school. :)
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Yup - why do you ask..?
Right here, man.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
Pleasantly surprised to see so many fellow Christians!
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
D&D is mostly played in majority Christian nations. The majority of people playing D&D are likely Christians.
At some point I'm gonna collect bible quotes to use as cleric or paladin spell verbal components.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
Yep. Many of the people I play with are as well. (In fact, two of us are pastors). I wonder if the question is because back in the early 80s there was a pretty vocal (but relatively small) contingent of Christians who decried DnD as devil worship and/or dangerous for you.
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I wanted to do a story about grace, forgiveness and redemption.
When I DMed King of the Trollhaunt Warrens, I made sure to bring formerly-Evil NPC, Vyrellis out of the previous adventure, Pyramid of Shadows.
I had her ask the party's Good cleric to officially covert her back to Good. Had him do a whole ceremony.
Players and NPCs were suspicious, but I always depicted her as sincerely reformed.
Really proud of that story arc.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
I'd love to get our pastor to play, but he's too busy.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
Sounds like a lovely arc, I do a homebrew world so I needed to find a good reason why demons (abyssals as I call em) and devils (infernals) were different, so I made the abyss the living representation of sin. They're sin-tient if you will. A tangible representation of a spiritual concept. Devils on the other hand are exactly what you'd expect from biblical demons
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Do your players get what you're doing?
I'm not sure mine did all the way.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
They haven't encountered any as of yet, but I like to keep things prepared in case it arises. Right now they're dealing with floating islands and a dragon seeking to create true life, but let me tell you, elves were a pain in the rear to fit. They live forever!
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Honestly wasn't expecting so many fellow Christian players. I've found a group of people at my College who play and now I play it more than I play video games.
For some reason I've never understood, there's some sort of negative stigma surrounding DnD in some Christian circles. The DnD universe isn't too different from other fantasy like Chronicles of Narnia or The Hobbit.
You have to put yourself in the time period.
The only video games were like Pong and Space Invaders; no Skyrim or Warcraft. There was no Harry Potter. The Lord of the Rings books were not mainstream reading, and the animated movies looked trippy and psychedelic.
This meant that parents in the 80s had no frame of reference for what D&D even was, unlike the way they do now.
What they did hear about was James Dallas Egbert's suicide being incorrectly blamed on D&D or 60 Minutes' hatchet job on D&D. For religious parents, they may have seen the nude woman on the cover of one of the White Box books, or the PHB and DMG with red, horned monsters on the covers (an idol and an efreet) that sure looked like the Devil.
My mom explained to me that most parents just declared "No Dragon and Dungeon for you!" because they simply didn't want to spend the time and energy to investigate it when there were so many other things for kids to do. When I became a dad, I understood that.
The girls I gamed with starting in 1983 actually were big Narnia fans, which was how they explained D&D to their Christian parents.
My secular mom didn't let me play D&D until we saw Mazes and Monsters on TV. The movie was so bad that she realized it had to be just a moral panic. [She still bought into the anti-comic-book moral panic, though.]
I did read a Mormon youth leader who concluded that D&D was no more dangerous than "a waste of time."
I'm 50, and I could tell you about our Principal who threw me out of his office for trying to start a gaming club, or the university student center supervisor who wouldn't let us play in her dining hall, saying "I go by the BIBLE!" but that's what I remember from the bad old days.
Admin on MeWe's Conservative D&D Players group, but I believe that no matter what our differences are, our love of D&D is something that should bring us together. So, if you don't start something I won't either. Fair enough?
Method Actor, Storyteller, Tactician type who plays peacemaker at the table. This fall will be my 39th year playing D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars, Talisman, Serenity and Traveller.
Even in the '90s there was still some lingering stigma of the moral panic issue.
I was in a metal band with the son of a preacher. We lived in a small town far away from anything bigger, and the preacher could understand that loud and heavy music wasn't automatically "evil" or about negative things, and there were even bands that would call themselves "christian metal" because the message of their songs was aligned with christian morals while the genre was heavy metal... but when it came to D&D, I was nearly run out of his house.
In the end, the preacher did allow me to make my case for why I believed he was misjudging D&D, and after listening while I told him of his son's paladin seeking out wrongs to right and evils to dispatch he changed his mind about the game. I strongly believe, though, that had I not been calm and collected and interested in discussing the matter with him - like if I'd have just gone "This is BS!" and stormed out of the house - that he'd never have had the realization that what he'd heard about the game extolling devil-worship was misinformation.