Yeah I agree tom practicing it is evil but on the other thing playing
is not really.
In fact in earlier centuraries past magic was a coman practice of
sorts or at least some stories say it was.
Playing magic/ fighting games the old style is simply traveling back
in time before the 20th century.
ANd since most of us will never in reality experience parts of that
time thats something us humans are interested in.
Ofcause what was in that time etc was scued slightly from what was
back in that time but now days unless you are a history nut it doesn't matter.
Its a coman theme in any case.
Dungeons were the basic part of interactive fiction anyway and for
those that played those before its also a reminder of what we started with.
I'd never be a cultest or even go out and stab people I guess unless
I was really mad and even then I don't know if I would then go on to
stab people all day long.
At 03:30 a.m. 1/05/2015, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
Well, I for one don't believe roll playing games like Dungeons and
Dragons is evil in a religious sense, but I do know and understand
where that system of beliefs comes from having been brought up in a
Christian faith as a child.
The basis of religious believers calling D&D evil comes from a verse
in Deuteronomy of not being partakers of witchcraft, magic, familiar
spirits, etc. Basically, many Christians take that to mean that any
participation in magic or the occult be it real or fantasy is
forbidden and call fiction like Harry Potter or games like D&D evil
accordingly. Myself I strongly feel that view is taken out of context
and there is a world of difference of actually practicing the occult
and merely reading a story about it or playing a game.
Cheers!
On 4/30/15, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
> @Jody, D&D evil?
>
> I'm a tad confused, sinse the dungeons and dragons I know is a tabletop rp
> game, and how evil it is depends upon your gm, though usually most decent
> gms wouldn't really condone a game where you were playing out and out evil
> characters and would smack you with nasty in game penalties if you ever
> commited any senseless crimes or whatever, sinse it's their job to create
> the realistic world the game happens in.
>
> I have heard some religious zealots say D&D is evil simply because it
> involves magic, wizards, dragons and such, the same way some religious
> zealots say Harry Potter is evil, but such opinions are based on
a religious
>
> mindset and system of beliefs that (even though I was bought up in the
> Christian tradition myself), I find so utterly bizarre I have difficulty
> making sense of.
>
> Beware the grue!
>
> Dark.
>
>
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