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My Views On Roleplaying Games I hate fantasy roleplaying games. I will state here and I will state elsewhere that I never want to be solicited with a request to join an online roleplaying game. Ever. Nor do I want to advertise for such games on my website or endorse paraphernalia associated with such games. Don't even send me your character's stats. It might insult me. REASONS WHY I HATE ROLEPLAYING GAMES 1. I hate FRPG's because the people who play them irritate me. Most FRPG players are little snobs that won't let truly intelligent people like myself join their games. And if I do join their game, their characters snub mine because they are different. I get my character killed off because I made the mistake of looking different. That's why I accuse FRPG's of teaching racism. I almost never play human (elves and dwarves are humans to me) characters unless they are very humorous. Otherwise, its not fantasy for me. I'm already a weakling in a human body. Where's the fantasy in playing a human character that's constantly getting beaten up? Elves and dwarves just aren't fantastic enough for me. I need to express my creativity by picking a truly nonhuman character. It has nothing to do with wanting to be mega-powerful, which most players accuse me of. 2. FRPG's limit my imagination. Aside from making it very difficult to play a unique nonhuman character ("Hey! Look! A gnoll paladin! Let's kill him!" all the burghers shout), I can't make up your own worlds or legends or alternate histories without conflicting with what the game designers had in mind or without peeving off role-players who want to be strict. The new D&D has made significant advances in allowing DMs and players to create truly original characters, creatures, places, and items, but its still too limiting (why should a red dragon always be evil?). 3. FRPG's they waste time and money. Anyone who's tried to be a DM knows how much money they spend on rulebooks and magazines and how much time is wasted on building dungeons when it could be used more wisely on finishing homework. I spent almost $300 on the new D&D before I threw it all out, and I spent ten times as much on Magic: The Gathering before selling all my cards for a mere $125. 4. FRPG's often are a reason to get into fights. Players will fight with the DM over what items they can bring into the game. They will fight when a player decides to play tricks on the others. They will fight over another character's uniqueness. They fight with the DM over his storyline and monster statistics. Almost anything can provoke an argument in these situations. Its no longer a game. Its more like being at a party full of drunks who beat each other up over the women. 5. In FRPG's, players pass their God-given self-control over to a set of dice and some paper. Players have killed themselves when their best character, an imaginary friend who might be their only friend, gets killed by a callous DM. What a stupid thing to die for! And yet, I can sympathize with these victims because I too have had my best characters, in which I invested precious ideas and time, killed like cannon fodder. 6. In FRPG's, you cannot win a game at all unless you resort to using magick. In other words, you will not survive and defeat evil unless you rely on shady demonic powers which are evil in themselves. Really, this isn't fair at all. It forces the person to accept the game's idolatrous ideology if he wants to enjoy the game. 7. FRPG's train the mind to think of everyone in terms of finite statistics. God isn't finite. It becomes very difficult to worship an infinite God when you limit him with numeric statistics. You begin to wonder if God could possibly be defeatable, which He isn't. You lose absolute trust because you no longer think in absolutes but in die rolls and bonuses. There. You have seven big reasons why I detest these abominable games. I don't want to hear any whining about my refusal to discuss such things on my forum, which should be reserved for discussing religion. I no longer play roleplaying games. I don't need them. I have the Holy Spirit to give me miraculous powers. I have the Father to supply all my needs. I have Jesus to change me into a dragon and create neat lizard people to assist me in heaven. I don't need the fantasy because I have the reality.
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