It was always head scratching to me why church moms got bent out of shape over D&D being satanic when everyone who plays it wants to be the paladin with the holy avenger killing liches, like good guy stuff.
Almost the entire mythology around D&D panics can get traced to the movie Mazes and Monsters. At certain points the characters confuse reality with their roleplaying game. Tom Hanks tries to jump off the world trade center south tower thinking he’s a paladin who can fly.
everyone who plays it wants to be the paladin with the holy avenger killing liches, like good guy stuff.
Ah, I see you’ve never been at the murder-hobo table.
I mean, even in the “best” scenario of players reenacting the plot of the 1970s cartoon, you’ve still got kids pretending to be Gandalf-esque Wizards and tree-hugging hippie Druids and Ki-powered Monks, running about the world battling villainous industrialists while befriending sparkly unicorns and faeries. And that’s in the Dad-run games, where the parents are trying to keep it as PG as possible.
There are plenty of games more morally gray than that - the Curse of Stradh puts in you a bunch of nasty binds where you might align with a bog witch or a some villainous Romanians. And plenty more - Tomb of Horrors, for instance - where its an unapologetic gore-fest.
It was always head scratching to me why church moms got bent out of shape over D&D being satanic when everyone who plays it wants to be the paladin with the holy avenger killing liches, like good guy stuff.
Almost the entire mythology around D&D panics can get traced to the movie Mazes and Monsters. At certain points the characters confuse reality with their roleplaying game. Tom Hanks tries to jump off the world trade center south tower thinking he’s a paladin who can fly.
What a noob.
Alright, when are we watching this on cytube? This shit sounds amazing
Hell yeah dude I’m down
My cousin told me once he wasn’t allowed to play Diablo because it had devils in it “But… you kill the devils?”
Yeah it’s like the imagery or references to satanic stuff make games like that a no go, even though you’re literally an avenger for god.
Ah, I see you’ve never been at the murder-hobo table.
I mean, even in the “best” scenario of players reenacting the plot of the 1970s cartoon, you’ve still got kids pretending to be Gandalf-esque Wizards and tree-hugging hippie Druids and Ki-powered Monks, running about the world battling villainous industrialists while befriending sparkly unicorns and faeries. And that’s in the Dad-run games, where the parents are trying to keep it as PG as possible.
There are plenty of games more morally gray than that - the Curse of Stradh puts in you a bunch of nasty binds where you might align with a bog witch or a some villainous Romanians. And plenty more - Tomb of Horrors, for instance - where its an unapologetic gore-fest.