Dungeons and Dragons

My boyfriend plays the game and said there is nothering that he finds evil about it.I mean it is just a game.Just like that one game Ougie or whatever it is called.
I doubt if there is any deeper meaning into it.JM

Originally posted by FeceMan
This is just a random thought that popped into my head.

How many of you feel that D&D is a bad thing? I know there are quite a few people who feel that Dungeons and Dragons is basically Satan's board game (like Chutes and Ladders with a fiery lake at the bottom!), but what do you all think of it?

Personally, I have no problem with it (though I don't play it), but I know my parents sure do 🙂. The mom in particular (heh) believes that if I ever touched D&D material, I'd become a die-hard Satanist.

What are your thoughts?

(Feel free to incorporate video games based off of D&D.)

Okie first of all, D&D normaly isn't a board game (altho atleast one DnD board game exists (bad one)) It's a roleplaying game.
Secondly there is Nothing Satanic about D&D if your mom thinks that you should take her to a RPG convention. You can give the game whatever feel you want but I think you have to try really hard to give it a satanic feel.

As for nerdy? well I dunno. But since I've been a pretty hardcore DnD player for the last 12 years my opinion might not be objective.
People call me and my RPG friends nerds but we usualy agree.
RPGs are for nerds so what!

DnD is a great RPG as Ush said fairly limited but I still enjoy playing it to an extreme level. I don't agree with ush on Baldurs gate being better than real DnD (depends on what you are used to ofcourse)

RPGs are about one of the best hobbies I can think of.

Yeah, D&D isn't a board game...

I am aware, but my mom is completely ignorant of everything D&D. She sees D&D = devil-worship. I have tried to explain the premise to her before--she's more thick-headed than a coconut with an inactive thyroid gland (or somesuch). I tried to explain to her that KotOR is BASICALLY D&D (which she allows no problem due to the lack of magic), but it didn't work.

There was this thing my friend found on the internet that was making fun of D&D... I don't remember where he found it, but it was basically a sound clip of a bunch of power-nerdy kids sitting around playing D&D and saying stupid things. It was funny as hell. If your mom heard that, she might change her mind.

Originally posted by yerssot
FM... what makes you think that?

http://www.exposingsatanism.org/dnd.htm

I think it's a fairly common belief, actually. Another reason people think it's "bad" is because of all the "goths" who play it.

That guy doesn't even know what D&D is about DR I have that clip on my comp (atleast if you mean the one with "I wanna cast magic missle" and "I attack the darkness"😉

Originally posted by Darth Revan
http://www.exposingsatanism.org/dnd.htm

I think it's a fairly common belief, actually. Another reason people think it's "bad" is because of all the "goths" who play it.

Perhaps you could be on the right track trying to educate her, I mean, if she likes something like, say, Lord of the Rings, then she couldn't really have a problem with D&D, which everyone claims was inspired by it, and Star Wars just changes the name of magic to "The Force"

chances are theyr'd think LOTR was evil aswell.... aswell as most things outside her front door

I've never sat and played it because the main premise to it being nerdy is due to all the calculations 😖 .... which i would have no problem with. But Satanic wise i do remember a book of demons, devils, and Gods 😛 so maybe they have a beef with that part 😛 but if you know the universe you will realize from a christen point of view Helm is basically the Crusader ideal of God.

And Buldur's Gate Rocks .... i guess Bhaal Lord of Murder, the enemy in BG, would not sound so cool in a church 😂

we (D&D players) have quite a few books about hell, devils, demons and evil deities even so we have equaly many books about heavens, angels and good deities

Very true but those searching for wrong will be blind to this premise 😬 i love the idea and the universe of DD 😄

nah I'm not in favor of the carthwheel of planes, I mean it is nicely thought of but I don't like it I usualy eliminate every plane except the material, astral and shadow plane (the others are not really planes)

It's a vague category. I always thought I could make up better rubrics.

huh what you mean shaber talking about the carthweel of planes or?

I LOVED this show. It was the best!

I think it should be darker and more austere! 😮‍💨

which show?

Both!

Still have no idea about which show you are talking