Supplement Four
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This film looks HORRIBLE! Like it was filmed in someone's backyard.
Roleplaying games are truly EVIL!
DARK DUNGEONS
Roleplaying games are truly EVIL!
DARK DUNGEONS
RPGs are EVIL!
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For context (watch the trailer first tho', its an OMG moment!), visit
http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/20/5734626/dark-dungeons-jack-chick-tract-movie-trailer
then the original comic strip
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
A mate of mine in the UK had their gaming club raided by armed police complete with Priests and Nuns, looking for occult RPGers. He reckoned the police stood there for five minutes watching the Nuns proclaiming Satan everywhere they went (models, dice, rulebooks...), before the police apologised and withdrew...
I love the trailers depiction of RPG groupies, I now realise I have been doing this all wrong!
http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/20/5734626/dark-dungeons-jack-chick-tract-movie-trailer
then the original comic strip
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
A mate of mine in the UK had their gaming club raided by armed police complete with Priests and Nuns, looking for occult RPGers. He reckoned the police stood there for five minutes watching the Nuns proclaiming Satan everywhere they went (models, dice, rulebooks...), before the police apologised and withdrew...
I love the trailers depiction of RPG groupies, I now realise I have been doing this all wrong!
martletsquire
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Gosh, went running to open this post in breathless anticipation of the latest in rocket propelled grenades, and I find this...
Kinda reminds me of Jr. High, when my gaming club was being accosted by my Youth for Christ group. Ah, you gotta love those afterschool activities.
Hey, the gaming group was all nerds. There were guuurls in the Youth for Christ group!!! Who-hoo!
I ran one of my best D&D games at the local Roman Catholic Church. Even the priest played a couple of rounds, and the nuns were cool with it, too!
Kinda reminds me of Jr. High, when my gaming club was being accosted by my Youth for Christ group. Ah, you gotta love those afterschool activities.
Hey, the gaming group was all nerds. There were guuurls in the Youth for Christ group!!! Who-hoo!
I ran one of my best D&D games at the local Roman Catholic Church. Even the priest played a couple of rounds, and the nuns were cool with it, too!
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One of my High School groups met at the local Cathedral... and often had a cult-deprogrammer Catholic priest listening in.
My mother was extremely worried when I was in Jr. High... until my birthday party - I got AD&D module Q1, and ran it... and she realized it was just improvisational radio play with rules...
I really didn't have much of an issue until college - my employing department's admin assistant was rabidly anti-RPGing. (I didn't have the heart to break it to her that 3 of the faculty also were gamers.) She was also rabidly anti-wargaming.
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Timerover51
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Having been at a couple of conventions where the Dungeon Masters said that all players had to be Chaotic Evil, and one game where the instructions to the players that the slaves (unarmed and in chains) along were intended to be used a fodder to find out how the monsters worked, a case can be made that RPGs can be evil. It just depends on the Game Master and the players themselves.
I was also at one convention where we had a couple of guys walk in dressed in full Nazi SS regalia. We happened to have a gamer there whose father was a survivor of the Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge. That just about started a riot. We had the local police escort the Nazi imitators out of the convention and told them not to come back. Their excuse was that they were going to be playing the Germans in one of the WW2 miniature games. Tis a pity that that was before widespread use of video cameras, and long before digital cameras. The venue was not exactly thrilled with the publicity.
I have seen a pretty wide range of gray when it comes to running RPG games, and all too many were the players were so gray as to be black.
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Some years back (as I posted on these boards no less) I had some people try to "deprogram me" of gaming and classic "Star Trek". One of them even posted here about trying to create a Traveller game with the HERO rule system.
Yes, the idea of "god" was introduced. And my personal life was intruded into on the deepest and most personal level.
I filed complaints with the State of California, and so did my extended family. And, eventually I had to contact the California Department of Justice their antics got so bad. They are now firmly on the radar of the local, state, and even federal law enforcement. And if they're reading this, then they know who they are.
This trailer looks like it was shot by a bunch of people who never so much as played Monopoly or go fish, much less basic D&D. How unfortunate.
I hope they spend all kinds of money and make the biggest spectacle for all of sci-fi / fantasy fans and the general public to see just who they really are, and what they're all about.
"hands for spell casting"? Huh? Throwing dice through blood? Give. Me. A. Break.
Yes, the idea of "god" was introduced. And my personal life was intruded into on the deepest and most personal level.
I filed complaints with the State of California, and so did my extended family. And, eventually I had to contact the California Department of Justice their antics got so bad. They are now firmly on the radar of the local, state, and even federal law enforcement. And if they're reading this, then they know who they are.
This trailer looks like it was shot by a bunch of people who never so much as played Monopoly or go fish, much less basic D&D. How unfortunate.
I hope they spend all kinds of money and make the biggest spectacle for all of sci-fi / fantasy fans and the general public to see just who they really are, and what they're all about.
"hands for spell casting"? Huh? Throwing dice through blood? Give. Me. A. Break.
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Timerover51
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I thought that religion was off limits. And I suspect that a lot of people would label me a "fundamentalist". By the way, do you know what the word really meant originally?
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Oh dear. I apologize.
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I edited my previous post for the sake of COTI harmony.
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I edited my previous post for the sake of COTI harmony.
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It is.
The movie is supposed to be a parody. Specifically, a parody of the original Jack Chick Tract. And, given the turn that discussion of that almost invariably takes, once someone brings up the religious aspects, I'm shutting down the thread.
I've pulled it from the quote as well. Since you pulled it prior to my seeing the complaint, no infraction.
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