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On 11/19/2024 12:26 PM, Xocyll wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
> 
>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:31:43 -0600, Jhulian Waldby
>> <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess the concern is that players may become unable to differentiate
>>> the truth from the water elemental.  I've noticed this in some Dungeon
>>> Masters who argue rules as if it were a physics laboratory.  Not one
>>> hint of "this is fiction" or "we can't find a rule for that."
>>
>> Tabletop RPG afficiandos always point to 'rule zero: the DM has
>> ultimate say in what goes, overriding even what the books say.' But
>> few acknowledge that there is --or should be-- a rule -1: the goal of
>> the game is to have fun. And if you, as DM, are pissing off your
>> players, you've broken the most fundamental rule of the game. ;-)
>>
>>
>>> Funny though, I haven't heard anyone mention Satanism in D&D for yrs.
>>> That all stopped a week before I picked up Basic Dungeons & Dragons.
>>> Who were those people?  I couldn't tell you, I've forgotten.
>>
>> Almost entirely people who had not only never played the game, but had
>> never even read the books.
>>
>> Usually small-minded hypocrites who themselves have such difficulty
>> discerning fantasy from reality that they need an authority (usually
>> religious in nature) to tell them the difference and can't imagine any
>> one else not being so restricted in their thinking.
>>
>> Yes, these people existed, and they still exist; I had somebody
>> confront me on the game's supposed Satanic connections just a few
>> years ago. They're far less common (and, as mentioned, almost entirely
>> an American construct) but they're still around. And it's not just D&D
>> they have a hate for; Harry Potter, Twilight, tarot cards... it's all
>> burnable to them.
>>
>> But it's America; what do you expect?
> 
> America, a nation founded by people who were kicked out of England for
> being too uptight for the Puritans.
> 
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