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Tabletop roleplaying games?

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Dungeons and Dragons.. Shadowrun.

What are your opinions on these?
 
i haved played d&d, but i dont have time to now, but it can tempting to a christian if there's too much of the sin be acted out, i wish there were christian versions of it. i love rpg's

jason
 
Yeah, I always heard that DnD was pure evil and whatnot when I was a child. But this year I started playing Shadowrun with some friends.. it's basically a futuristic (non-fantasy if I choose.. I hate the idea of magic because it's frankly boring.) DnD.

As a potential artist.. I find this game extremely good for creativity. It's basically just an exercise for the imagination.. And you don't even have to follow the stories they have in the books.. There are guidelines you can follow, but even those you can alter to your liking.

A few friends of mine draw the environments and characters as we play and imagine everything..

Anyways, I was linked to a comic.. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

At first I thought it was a funny joke.. I mean.. girl gets level 8 in a boardgame where a couple people are basically sitting around a table making up a story.. all of a sudden the comic takes a sharp turn and the lady is like "I THINK YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO LEARN REAAAL SPELLS NOW!" and then the next panel is this satanic cult ritual with a pentagram and candles.. the whole shabang.. Hilarious because... really.. who thinks that actually happens when someone is being a nerd in their basement playing a boardgame? lol. All of a sudden you realize this comic is trying to be serious.. because this girl kills herself because her character in the game died.

I just wanted to hear what other people thought of the game.
 
TaemJ said:
Yeah, I always heard that DnD was pure evil and whatnot when I was a child. But this year I started playing Shadowrun with some friends.. it's basically a futuristic (non-fantasy if I choose.. I hate the idea of magic because it's frankly boring.) DnD.

As a potential artist.. I find this game extremely good for creativity. It's basically just an exercise for the imagination.. And you don't even have to follow the stories they have in the books.. There are guidelines you can follow, but even those you can alter to your liking.

A few friends of mine draw the environments and characters as we play and imagine everything..

Anyways, I was linked to a comic.. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

At first I thought it was a funny joke.. I mean.. girl gets level 8 in a boardgame where a couple people are basically sitting around a table making up a story.. all of a sudden the comic takes a sharp turn and the lady is like "I THINK YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO LEARN REAAAL SPELLS NOW!" and then the next panel is this satanic cult ritual with a pentagram and candles.. the whole shabang.. Hilarious because... really.. who thinks that actually happens when someone is being a nerd in their basement playing a boardgame? lol. All of a sudden you realize this comic is trying to be serious.. because this girl kills herself because her character in the story died.

I just wanted to hear what other people thought of the game.
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d&d isn't pure evil really if one plays with fellow christians it could be fun and clean, but it would need some accountablity though, i have never tried for myself to see if a christian could role play via d&d, with another believer, when i was a sinner i played d&d, that hobby can become too time consuming.
i'm married so i must spend time with my wife

jason
 
Hahaha...Chick tracts are so full of bad reasoning. They're terrible. Of course it is always possible that playing such games could lead one to become more interested in real magic but anything taken to an extreme can lead to something that isn't good. Spending too much time playing isn't good either.

I've never played tabletop rpg's but I really like computer ones (Dungeon Siege II is the main one I play but I am always looking for other good ones).
 
Real magic? lol. Is that like bigfoot, the loch ness monster, and beady eyed aliens?
 
No. "Real magic" as in witches and such; aka black magic. It does exist.
 
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So, black magic.. What does it do? I mean.. if it was real.. it surely wouldn't be so openly ridiculed?

Do they heal people with it? Create fire? Control the weather? Bring the dead back to life? Talk to the dead? Use voodoo dolls? Curse people? Fly on brooms?

Is god covering it all up so that the average human doesn't realize there is actual magic?

Do satanists know how to keep secrets really well?

Forgive me, but I'm sitting here thinking of medieval ages now..
 
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