Comments on: Good christians don’t play D&D

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:43:44 +0000

Yesterday, I saw a Dungeons and Dragons trailer as an ad while I was watching my favorite TV show on the internet.I never heard of the game before, even though I don’t live in the US… however I don’t really think that a game could possibly turn you to killing yourself over the death of your character.Things like this were said about WOW too, from what I can recall.And yet my char died in PVP countless times… however the point is that I think those guys were exaggerating. ( I’m sorry if my English isn’t that great, I’m not from an English-speaking country. )

By: Hank

Hank — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:43:51 +0000

I’ve created a story where Jack Chick is forced to do all the things he is against.

By: Hammerfall

Hammerfall — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:56:12 +0000

These guys were just a handful of misguided souls who managed to scare some parents into panicking. But this was hardly restricted to the fringes of Christianity. In fact, in the 80s you had a fringe atheist group with respondents in multiple countries trying to do the exact same thing (get dnd put “under watch” or outright banned because they felt it would make children violent deviants or indoctrinate them into religions).

As a devout Christian and lifelong D&D player, I always had a sigh and a chuckle everytime Jack Chick is brought up. The man was not only theologically illiterate (No, seriously. Not a darn thing in his tracts have biblical support and his exegesis is pitiful ), a bigot (he really had it out for Catholics, Episcopalians, and…really anyone who wasn’t part of his very specific radical sect), and lousy writer (What? It’s true!), he was just plain bonkers.

I’ve been playing tabletop RPGs for over 32 years now (Yes, I’m old. No need to rub it in) and I’ve played with hundreds of christians from almost every denomination, and countless other individuals from various walks of life ( hindu, muslim, jewish, buddhist, non-religious, and neo-pagan). Not once have I ever, EVER heard a problem about it from any of them.

The guys that do this, religious and non-religious alike are just a minuscule handful of malcontents who just like to raise a racket here and there just for attention.

So to answer the opening statement: Yes, Good Christians DO play D&D. In fact, one of the authors of 4th edition players handbook, James Wyatt is a devoted Christian (he even used to be a minister himself).

By: psychicninja

psychicninja — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:30:19 +0000

These aren’t just old and forgotten. I worked at a bookstore for a few years up until 2007 and we still had people come in every few months and sneak these into the D&D books. Made us laugh, but it was really annoying.

By: D&D preacher

D&D preacher — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:12:55 +0000

Good Christians don’t play D&D? I am a Minister of the Gospel and I play D&D at least three times a month, there is nothing wrong and in fact there are some very good things with D&D and other role playing games first it teaches us to value the gifts of others (clerics heals, fighters protect and so on) next we see the basic math in character creation as well as reading, heaven forbid we do that reading and math are lacking in today’s video world. now let us look at fellowship aka social life these games are played around a table with others hopefully having fun. on to a little about me I have played D&D since the winter of 74-75 got my first set after a accident this was the only time I could do stuff with my friends.
So here we are thirty six years later and I have yet to go wiggy and shoot up the mall, offer my close family (or anyone else) up as a sacrifice to Satan, Cthulhu or anyone else.