Satanic Math

These days, some people wouldn't even attempt to see the game with their own eyes and completely makes up their mind based on one FB post.

The conspiracy and accusations must always go deeper.

I'm also surprised it ended with the grandma realizing it was just math, because it could have just as easily ended with her thinking that they're obviously hiding what the real game is about, and how bad it must be be that they'd go to such great lengths to cover it up.

I have to assume having a good, strong relationship with her grandchild must also be a contributing factor. If D&D remained something only anonymous ne'er-do-wells do, it'd be easy to continue buying into the satanic panic. But someone you know and trust to be responsible telling you it's no big deal might make it a bit easier to accept.

There are 2 sorts of ignorance. Incidental and willful. Incidental can be fixed easily, with more information. Willful only look to support their pre-decided views, and so are far harder to change.

Before the internet became a big thing, both were common on topics. We were forced to rely on what we were told. This lead to a lot of incidental ignorance. The internet made it easy to fix this.

The end result is the ratio has changed. It used to be, say 80% incidental, and 20% willful. Now 90% of the incidental is mostly fixed. So it's 29% incidental, 71% willful. And so looks a lot worse to casual observation.

The Grandma seems the incidental type. Going to a game gave her the information to update her views.

Also to note, the numbers here were pulled from my arse for example purposes only. Actual ratios may vary.

You don't even need the dice! I was definitely gambling last session when I attuned to a prosthetic eye filled with the trapped souls of everyone that's ever used it. It gives me 60 feet of Truesight though!

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.

I would love this so much.

I've never played any non-PC RPG though.

You should check out GURPS. Its a simpler system with universal campaigns (modern, fantasy, mech, dimension hopping, steampunk). The system is super easy. You start with 100 points to make your character. You can spend them on stats, skills, spells, and perks. You can even gain more points by taking quirks.

You roll 3d6 for everything. Your goal is to get under your skill number. Fireball of 13 needs to roll under 13. If its raining or something, your GM can choose to put a -4 on that. So now you need to roll under 9. Just simple addition and subtraction, but it works really well.

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 bet she'd like it if you told her it was racist and anti-trans...

I always laugh at these people. I’m paraphrasing, but in the 7th book Harry essentially tells Voldemort, “I died for them, you can’t touch them.”

This is of course mirroring the fact that his own parents had died to protect him from Voldemort in the first place, but it’s also very much symbolic of the central Christian concept of Christ dying to save sinners. Harry is very much a Christ-figure in the end, forgiving those who had been his enemies and even pitying Voldemort himself. It’s not quite as blatant as C.S. Lewis and his, “If people don’t realize the lion is Jesus I’m going to have an aneurysm,” but it’s still obvious.

People who say stuff like this is satanic live in such a pitifully small world. I feel sorry for them.

Might not be Satan, but it's J.K.Rowling, which is way worse...

Weeks? More like decades.

Knock #2 by the merry mushmen has a set of actual d666 tables for generating a pact with a devil.

My son taught himself English by setting Minecraft to English. Once he mastered that, he set it to Pirate.

I learned CAD because of Doom.

Except you learned british English, not freedom English

Not at my games, we only use true American ternary - 🦅, 🍔, and 🛢️

Don't forget Tom Hanks first leading role in the movie Mazes and Monsters, originally titled Dungeons & Dragons, but forced to change it when TSR sued them.

This is parody, right ?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3625970/ Dark Dungeons, the movie

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."

Pearl-clutching “christians” used to be deathly afraid of anything

Used to be? Harry Potter was 30 years after DnD started and you had jesus jizzers freaking the fuck out about witchcraft. Nowadays some of them believe democrats are literal demons from biblical hell bringing about the end times.

Can't fix stupid.

Christianity as a religion encourages fear and paranoia. None of this is accidental.

I use comic sans some people just want to watch the world burn.

Honestly, just because I could, and once I had done it, I just liked the way it looked, so I've kept it. That, and I remember it being a pain to change in One UI. I don't remember how I did it, and the process is probably different by now anyways, so I'd have to look it up, and I'm not about to do all that again.

It is for me.