Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re:FRP games--a work of the devil... :-( Message-ID: <4191@alice.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:05:26 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4191 Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:05:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:24:48 EDT References: <6601@ucla-cs.ARPA>, <16240@watmath.UUCP> Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 31 I've encountered quite a few people in New Jersey, including a group that met in the same meeting room immediately after we met, who claimed that D&D (trademark TSR Inc, Geneva Wisconsin) was the "work of the devil". These people said that some minister or other had told them so, and that was that. We invited them to watch a game, they declined, saying they didn't need to. Rather obviously, I think the minister was concerned with any activity that encourages the participants to continually check their premises and assumptions. :-) We play Rolemaster (Trademark Iron Crown Enterprises) now, (and like the system a lot more, despite those few on the net who told me what an anus I was for liking Rolemaster instead of their pet system...) so I suppose our eternal souls are safe now. :-) Seriously, those making such claims, at least in the NJ area, don't know of the fact that D&D(Tm, see above) isn't all there is, and tend to lump all FRP under the same banner. I wonder how they'd react to Gamma World? -- SUPPORT SECULAR TEDDY-BEAR-ISM. "You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj