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Satanic Math
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Good point, actually. Seems like these days, a lot of people wouldn't change their opinion after seeing what this grandma saw.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.
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Also, their supplemental books really helped me grow as a writer and gamemaster. Most of them tackle a genre and explore it thoroughly.
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They're using **Arabic** numerals! It's obviously all a devilish ploy to subvert our pure Christian souls!
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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 bought the Fate Accelerated Edition because it sounded fun but I've literally not found any published adventures. I've found campaign settings, yeah, but nothing explaining what an easy encounter should look like, how to structure an adventure, nothing. Fate seems fun so I'm ready to be proved wrong.
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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.Thanks for this. Its been quite a while since I've played, so I was going off of fuzzy memory. I do still have all the books, but haven't opened them in a long time. That's exactly it. You choose what you want your character to do and be within the GM's world type. Then you have one or two sessions really setting everything up for world, characters, story, progression, etc. After that you're done with the hard part. Heck, even the GM is done with it. They may need to reference material occasionally, but the game almost plays itself. It's much, much more casual and focuses more on story and narrative. Its like if Choose Your Own Adventure was a game, the rolls only being there to add flavor and excitement to your adventures.
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I bought the Fate Accelerated Edition because it sounded fun but I've literally not found any published adventures. I've found campaign settings, yeah, but nothing explaining what an easy encounter should look like, how to structure an adventure, nothing. Fate seems fun so I'm ready to be proved wrong.Sorry that this is off-topic... but your avatar hit me in the feels. I can't explain fully. When I first became aware as a kid in school, like... first conscious memorized thoughts, I was staring at the Netscape Navigator loading animation. Now every time I see it there's this feeling. Like super nostalgic serotonin and dopamine running through my veins. Such a small thing, but I almost cry every time I see it.
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Sorry that this is off-topic... but your avatar hit me in the feels. I can't explain fully. When I first became aware as a kid in school, like... first conscious memorized thoughts, I was staring at the Netscape Navigator loading animation. Now every time I see it there's this feeling. Like super nostalgic serotonin and dopamine running through my veins. Such a small thing, but I almost cry every time I see it.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.
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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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