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Satanic Math
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That's because you need to wake up, eye dust! You need to break out of the simulation! It's still 1999 in here! Just kidding lol. But thank you for sharing. I know the feeling you're talking about, just like a tidal wave of nostalgia that is utterly devastating. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that gives me that feeling, but I've felt it.Lol! Well, you're probably not wrong. Yeah, its just a blast of feelings, hard to describe. Shooting stars can usually do it to me. Whether they're in a game or in real life. I used to sit in old WoW waaaay back in the day and watch the shooting stars in Arathi Highlands. That and Winterspring were my favorite areas.
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I would love this so much. I've never played any non-PC RPG though.
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I'm going to second the other commenter in my enthusiasm for GURPS, but for the opposite reason. Gurps has the problem of being a universal role-playing system, like Fate, which means session zero includes a long sit-down with your DM about what precisely we will be doing in this game and what mechanics we will be using to create the desired experience. You then fill out the appropriate forms in triplicate to create your character. Usually, your DM makes a template for you to use like a shopping list, but the rulebook assumes you are digging through the first 300-page volume selecting your abilities and skills over the course of a day. Then, once you start playing, *you never have to look at the rulebook again*. All the rules you will be using were written (by you) on your character sheet. You roll the dice, see if you managed to roll under your target numbers, and then either succeed or fail. The DM barely has to adjudicate anything.>includes a long sit-down with your DM about what precisely we will be doing in this game and what mechanics we will be using to create the desired experience. You then fill out the appropriate forms in triplicate to create your character. Usually, your DM makes a template for you to use like a shopping list, but the rulebook assumes you are digging through the first 300-page volume selecting your abilities and skills over the course of a day. Holy shit. This first bit sounds like a bureaucracy simulator.
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It was totally a thing during the satanic panic. There's an infamous Chick Tract about d&d that I was genuinely given by cult missionaries when I was a kid. https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046
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Pearl-clutching "christians" used to be deathly afraid of anything with even slightly negative undertones. "Dungeons? Dragons? That's the devil! Away Satan! Our children are making pacts with the devil!" Satan was historically represented by a dragon in Christian mythology.
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I ran my school's D&D club in Highschool. At one point my Grandma came along to watch me and my Siblings while my parents were out of the house for a month and when i told her that i'd need picked up later on certain days for D&D club, she went off on this *long* rant about how 'D&D is satanic' and then something about how 'Obama eats babies'. To this day i'm literally shocked she believes that junk.
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It was totally a thing during the satanic panic. There's an infamous Chick Tract about d&d that I was genuinely given by cult missionaries when I was a kid. https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046
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It was totally a thing during the satanic panic. There's an infamous Chick Tract about d&d that I was genuinely given by cult missionaries when I was a kid. https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046This is parody, right ?
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It was totally a thing during the satanic panic. There's an infamous Chick Tract about d&d that I was genuinely given by cult missionaries when I was a kid. https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046
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Pearl-clutching "christians" used to be deathly afraid of anything with even slightly negative undertones. "Dungeons? Dragons? That's the devil! Away Satan! Our children are making pacts with the devil!" Satan was historically represented by a dragon in Christian mythology.Don't forget the woman whose son committed suicide so she created an anti-D&D group called Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons. Her group described D&D as "a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings."
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Don't forget the woman whose son committed suicide so she created an anti-D&D group called Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons. Her group described D&D as "a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings."
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>includes a long sit-down with your DM about what precisely we will be doing in this game and what mechanics we will be using to create the desired experience. You then fill out the appropriate forms in triplicate to create your character. Usually, your DM makes a template for you to use like a shopping list, but the rulebook assumes you are digging through the first 300-page volume selecting your abilities and skills over the course of a day. Holy shit. This first bit sounds like a bureaucracy simulator.
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A friend calls it "narrative gambling", because eventually we're all throwing dice and hoping it doesn't "ruin" us.I mean, it's not entirely wrong, but saying anything involving dice and risk is gambling, thus meaning it contains the same addictive and problematic features that gambling does, is incredibly simplistic and superficial. It's like saying carrots and coke is the same thing because both contain sugar.
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I'm going to second the other commenter in my enthusiasm for GURPS, but for the opposite reason. Gurps has the problem of being a universal role-playing system, like Fate, which means session zero includes a long sit-down with your DM about what precisely we will be doing in this game and what mechanics we will be using to create the desired experience. You then fill out the appropriate forms in triplicate to create your character. Usually, your DM makes a template for you to use like a shopping list, but the rulebook assumes you are digging through the first 300-page volume selecting your abilities and skills over the course of a day. Then, once you start playing, *you never have to look at the rulebook again*. All the rules you will be using were written (by you) on your character sheet. You roll the dice, see if you managed to roll under your target numbers, and then either succeed or fail. The DM barely has to adjudicate anything.I understand what you are saying and I can see why that could be interesting to some. I myself prefer to go the exact opposite route. I like Mini6 a lot. It's 2 pages of actual rules and a few more with example scenarios, spells, items, skills and enemies. The whole thing is like 30 pages IIRC. And even better: Dread. You can explain the rules in 2 minutes.
