Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] It’s Canon: Baldur’s Gate 3 Brings D&D To The Vatican

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.

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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!
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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