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    From JAB@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Thu Nov 14 09:28:01 2024
    On 13/11/2024 14:01, Kyonshi wrote:
    At any rate, it is ironic see D&D go from Satanic Panic to being
    installed somewhere in the Vatican in just a few short decades. Never
    let anyone tell you who you are.

    There's still a bit of it going around so I have heard a story about
    someone who wanted to play a cleric in D&D but insisted that it could
    only conform to the Christian version of god - maybe they wanted their
    spells to randomly work or even work in mysterious ways!

    Of course they also insisted this applied to the whole world, so no
    other gods allowed.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Sat Nov 16 11:56:45 2024
    On 14/11/2024 14:05, Kyonshi wrote:
    On 11/14/2024 10:28 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 13/11/2024 14:01, Kyonshi wrote:
    At any rate, it is ironic see D&D go from Satanic Panic to being
    installed somewhere in the Vatican in just a few short decades. Never
    let anyone tell you who you are.

    There's still a bit of it going around so I have heard a story about
    someone who wanted to play a cleric in D&D but insisted that it could
    only conform to the Christian version of god - maybe they wanted their
    spells to randomly work or even work in mysterious ways!

    Of course they also insisted this applied to the whole world, so no
    other gods allowed.

    When I still cared about these things I always found that using other
    gods was easier on my mind than using the Christian one. Because that
    was clearly fantasy or myth, while I believed in the actual Christian
    god. It felt uncomfortable to mix God (the capital G one) with other gods.
    It came as a surprise to me that especially American players sometimes
    seemed so intent on having it exactly the other way around.

    The whole demonic involvement and D&D kinda passed the UK over
    thankfully. Then again even then religion wasn't really a big thing in
    the UK even then.

    Then again we did have Mary Whitehouse who made up for it all on her own.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

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