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This was on Kickstarter awhile ago.
Sad thing is Chick will have no idea how much this slams him.
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So this chick thinks fitting into college life means joining a D&D group? What college is this? Miskatonic University?
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I get that this is a joke, but as someone who was raised Southern Baptist who was playing D&D in 80s, I have first hand experience on how much negative press this tract gave the hobby. I remember being dragged to a BADD meeting as a teenager and lectured on how D&D was going to send me to hell.
As someone who experienced this first hand, I have to say I am disappointed that gamers would make this.
That... is SOOOOOO great!
First though, Jack Chick? In his late 80's. Served our country in WWII.
He found religion and wanted to spread the word in his own creative, if ill-informed, manner... and even had a problem with the Roman Catholic Church claiming them as deliberately responsible for many world problems. He's lost a wife and a child and has had a triple bypass surgery for a heart attack.
His tracts have been the source of tremendous humor despite his intentions... and perhaps those of people who took them too seriously...
He's no hero. He sensationalized a lot of things he didn't understand to spread a "gospel." But in his 50 years of publication, I don't feel he was ever a serious threat or even all that awful a human. Maybe laughable and misguided at worst... and given what little is known about the man, he certainly didn't seem in it for his own recognition.
I'm just not inclined to heap grief on that man. But I will watch this film and laugh laugh...
Imbicatus
If being taken to an unpleasant meeting that only reinforced your hobby is the worst you blame of it, seems more like you might thank them instead. Not to apologize for Chick or undermine your negative personal experience (I was also raised in the south and among similar types on people,) but lots of other things have given fantasy role-playing even worse press than Dark Dungeons ever did. (Rona Jaffe springs to mind... and they made a serious movie based on one of her stories.)
At least Chick made us laugh... at the shear ridiculousness of it.
Backfromthedeadguy
You might need to read the tract at this link for additional context. It's clear that the filmmakers are doing a broad interpretation of the original material to humorous effect.
Maybe laughable and misguided at worst...
Jack Chick is the guy who gave us the comic, “Where’s Rabbi Waxman?”
In case it’s not clear from the title, the comic makes it quite clear that Rabbi Waxman, a good and generous man who loved and cared for others his whole life, is burning in hell. According to Chick. Because he’s Jewish.
So, so laughable! So misguided!
Even though he served is country, I don’t let Chick off the hook for publishing hate literature. Most of the folks who served didn’t spend the rest of their lives printing millions of comics telling people that Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, athiests, Jews, gays, and gamers are the pawns of the devil.
On the other hand, I do have a big Chick tract collection. I store it away from sight, as might a collector of Nazi memorabilia, lest someone misunderstand my motives.
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Jack Chick's comics never fail to make me laugh. First comic I ever read was Big Daddy. It was a hard copy we found at a McDonalds and I laughed at the sheer absurdity and idiocy of it.
Never change Chick. You're pure accidental comedy genius.
Hi, I'm the director of Dark Dungeons. I just wanted to stop by and thank Paizo for giving us all the Pathfinder books and other evil RPG materials. They were very useful!