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Roleplayers beware...

Tezcatlipoca

15:30 / 03.02.03

...for your time of judgement is at hand.

Actually the sincerity with which this is presented - as with pretty much all of this site's essays and comic strips - would be a little alarming if they didn't border on the farcical. Schnoebelen's article, which accompanies this strip, is a perfect example.

Jack Fear

15:36 / 03.02.03

It's the heart-warming conclusion that I love. Because, after all, nothing exemplifies the saving power of the Lamb of God like a good old-fashioned book-burning.

Bear

15:43 / 03.02.03

Him again! Actually the D&D "leader" is kinda hot. Do all roleplaying groups have an evil witch dressed in black?

cusm

17:28 / 03.02.03

Want to see something even funnier? To promote White Wolf's new game, Demon: The Fallen, they passed out a tract spoof on Dark Dungeons called Demonic Deviltry which is just a scream. There's a Christian ministry site to go along with it too, that goes into more detail on how White Wolf Game Studios is responsible for the corruption of youth to the paths of Satan. Funny stuff.

Tezcatlipoca

17:48 / 03.02.03

Humour aside, I'm fairly interested in whether the majority of Christians actually do see roleplay games as the tool of Lucifer, and, moreover, whether those that do have given any degree of thought as to why.

Jack Fear

17:54 / 03.02.03

Jack Chick doesn't represent a majority of anybody. His worldview is unbelievably paranoid and isolated.

cusm

18:02 / 03.02.03

If they were giving it any amount of research, they might be able to prepare a cohesive argument on just how much real occultism you can learn from RPGs, or be inspired to research on your own.

*stands up*

Hi, I'm a Role Player, and my hobby has led me to drug use, witchcraft, and deviant sex. Repenting? Oh no, sorry to confuse you there. I was bragging

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:26 / 03.02.03

Or, more accurately, lying.

the Fool

20:09 / 03.02.03

Or, more accurately, lying.

Not always. The D&D three step plan worked for me. Maybe not overnight, but it did happen... hehehehehehehehehe...

the Fool

20:16 / 03.02.03

Oh, and luuuuvvv the book burnin'. Goddam evil roleplayers, casting spells to get more books out of their parents, joining wacky cults!!!. What they need is a good beating and church to straighten them out...

rakehell

20:34 / 03.02.03

I went to christian schools until year 9/3rd form. In year 8, me and three mates tried to play D&D in the library.

That lasted about 2 weeks before we got called into the coordinators office and told not only to stop, but that any roleplaying material we brought onto school grounds from then on would be confiscated.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:58 / 03.02.03

Well, D&D enabled me to hang around people with only the most rudimentry social skills, which was helpful as I had absolutley no social skills whatsoever at the time. Rudimentry social skills enabled me to develop a social life, which in turn enabled me to make freinds, which in turn enabled me to form sexual relationships, which in turn enabled me to find a guy to do ooohhh... weird and disgusting things to.

So yeah, in a completely roundabout way, D&D did lead me into sexual perversion. But it didn't mean to.

(I was already into magick, though, so you can't blame the funny-shaped dice for that.)

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:15 / 03.02.03

Bear: Not since I quit back in '92. Sorry

w1rebaby

21:25 / 03.02.03

We had a history teacher who used to let us play RPGs because they were "historical" somehow. He also ran the fencing club, which I was in too, and did stuff like organise school plays with stage fighting in them.

He was cool, but he was also an alcy and used to turn up drunk and late for lessons after lunch, and I think he got fired after I left. He also taught us some complete bollocks. But it was interesting bollocks.

invisible_al

10:03 / 04.02.03

Yeah I had a history teacher like that, ran wargames after school, collected comics (X-men mainly) and ran a comic club at the school.
Woh flashback... just remember the homebrew dungeon crawl crossed with Fighting Fantasy dungeons that we used to play at lunch when I was in his classroom.
Yeah I'd have to say I'd have never met the perverts, pagans, goths and others destined for hell according Mr Chick, if I didn't do roleplaying. And what a class bunch of people they are as well

Loomis

10:55 / 04.02.03

I don't need Jack Chick to tell me that role playing is evil; everyone knows that. But when he sneaks "rock music" into his list of occult paraphernalia which must be destroyed, then I must say he's getting a bit cheeky.

cusm

13:36 / 06.02.03

D&D did lead me into sexual perversion. But it didn't mean to.

*nods*

D&D mostly led me to "harder" RPGs, honestly. But the group of outcasts that formed a functional social circle around the games, that led to a most interesting young adulthood. Counter culturials, devients, and punks with a support structure to work in, that leads to Jack Chick tracts, no doubt. Well, without the book burning and finding Jesus parts, that is.

aus

14:00 / 06.02.03

I don't think D&D can lead to anything except chronic nerdism, but I do enjoy a good fire. I'd become a funkymentalist if they had more really spectacular fires. BURN, BOOKS, BURN!

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