Often includes weekly meetings with like-minded individuals.
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RPGing is irrational dumb irrational dumb dumb dumb!!!!!!!! I sneer at all the weak-minded pathetic IRRATIONAL RPGers whenever I see them engaged in their IRRATIONAL DUMB practices. MAN I am superior to them!
I say yes! Just look at all the different denominations we have, most of which are hardly distinguishable from each other to outsiders. :)
Followers are seen as heretics and shunted off to the dark corners of the basements, argue vigorously over what good is, have a schism between different testaments, ritual meals of pizza and mountain dew.. hmmm.. you might be onto something here.
See if we can't get a church set up on tax exempt ground with huge gaming tables.
Role playing games, religion, they're both clubs.
Followers are seen as heretics and shunted off to the dark corners of the basements, argue vigorously over what good is, have a schism between different testaments, ritual meals of pizza and mountain dew.. hmmm.. you might be onto something here.
See if we can't get a church set up on tax exempt ground with huge gaming tables.
When I briefly gamed in person with people years ago, the DM was thinking about buying an old church that was up for sale and renovating it to live in. His planned decoration included lots of gaming stuff and a substantial number of skulls, pentacles, and the like.
It ended up being a terrible experience and I'm not well-disposed toward his memory, but that was a funny idea.
I thought about buying a church and moving in. The fun part would be Sunday mornings. If anyone lingered around front or tried to get in, I could open an upstairs window and yell "Go away! God doesn't live here any more!"
Yeah...as for gaming being a religion, when I'm interviewing for jobs and mention I can't work Sundays and they say "For religious reasons?", I don't usually say anything to dissuade them from that point of view.
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In both cases, it's hard to explain to the uninitiated exactly what the point is.
Without the printing press, roleplaying wouldn't be what it is today!
Roleplaying is also rife with people who give very simplistic advice when someone has real troubles... While at the same time there are people who will treat questions with a proper and serious mindset.
However. There is one issue where RPGs and religion do not meet at all. Humour doesn't enter into religion.
Yes it is, and I am your one true God.
Plz send your 'pledge of love/gift' payment asap or I will send you to the fiery Abyss. plzkthxbai~!
Could you call
"Nat 20, Crit! confirm is 22 vs AC. With a x3 that's 6d6+12, for 33 HP"
speaking in tongues? Because if you do it around the uninformed it just may sound like it.
Plus, we are experiencing major schisms, one of them having been the founding of the Church of BadWrongFun...
Yeah, those BadWrongFunists are truly wicked, evil examples of what was Against Gygax' Plan!
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Its heavily criticized by people who have never, or rarely, participated. Most of the people who do participate stress the importance of having a good time. Its value has nothing to do with science. Many participants get judged by the actions of a psychologically maladjusted fringe group. In those regards, its like a religion.
Most D&D participants don't believe that their characters are real people, however.
Yeah, those BadWrongFunists are truly wicked, evil examples of what was Against *****' Plan!
How, in the name of Dave, you dare to mention the Unholy One, the Apostate, the Usurper! Feel the Wrath of the Righteous!
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"Religion is a form of life, that seems to those who inhabit it to be comprehensive, incapable of abandonment, and of central importance." Paul J. Griffiths
Most D&D participants don't believe that their characters are real people, however.
:'(
the process of designing and playing a campaign is kinda similar to the
creative process used to make movies.
I think producing and making movies is a religion too.
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There is one issue where RPGs and religion do not meet at all. Humour doesn't enter into religion.
You've been hanging out with the wrong religious folks then. Many of the ones I know are real cards. Especially the Buddhists. Heck, there are vast numbers of religious people that are hilarious, however unintentional it may be on their parts.
Or more fittingly, "Is religion just another Role Playing Game?"
The largest and longest running LARP of all time?
No.
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Does this mean that Lisa Stevens owns a gold-plated mansion and a fleet of Lear Jets?
Will Nick Logue be immersed in a bath full of water by Monte Cook and James Jacobs before he can attend PaizoCon?
When my cat knocks dice under the stereo, is that blasphemy?
And can I stone my partner to death when she breaks character during climactic scenes of RP?
Or more fittingly, "Is religion just another Role Playing Game?"
For most people I suspect it is. Virtually nobody actually believes the stuff anymore, but they'll affirm it because they think they ought to believe it.
Keep on preaching Samnell.
Does this mean that Lisa Stevens owns a gold-plated mansion and a fleet of Lear Jets?
Will Nick Logue be immersed in a bath full of water by Monte Cook and James Jacobs before he can attend PaizoCon?
When my cat knocks dice under the stereo, is that blasphemy?
And can I stone my partner to death when she breaks character during climactic scenes of RP?
Blasphemer! One can only be baptized into the order by immersion into a tub filled with the tears of those whose characters you have killed. None of this namby pamby new edition "water" stuff.
They are the religion OF THE DEVIL!!11!!1!
Does this mean that Lisa Stevens owns a gold-plated mansion and a fleet of Lear Jets?
Not yet. A few APs and hardbooks, more, however...
Will Nick Logue be immersed in a bath full of water by Monte Cook and James Jacobs before he can attend PaizoCon?
His purification rituals will require fire, brimstone, blood of forty-year virgins and mountain dew (for those of American rite, European rite would use either coca-cola/pepsi and beer for Western European, or coca-cola/pepsi, mead, vodka or homebrew spirits for Central and Eastern European rites).
When my cat knocks dice under the stereo, is that blasphemy?
It is the sign most auspicious, when the blessed children of Bast honored your table and house with willingness to participate in game by rolling the dice.
And can I stone my partner to death when she breaks character during climactic scenes of RP?
Obligatory training vid.