[Moose4]

I still have my first edition Advanced D&D books with "12/25/79" written on the inside covers. I played a lot of RPGs--AD&D, Mechwarrior, Traveller, some other stuff--back when I was in high school in the 80s.

I think that these games, in general, can be pretty healthy. Heck, nowadays kids don't get their imaginations stretched enough, and good pen-and-paper gaming can do that. With a LOT of annoying parental supervision, of course! :)

As for this game, expect massive howls of outrage from fundamentalist Christians--and to tell the truth, I'm a little uncomfortable with it myself. There are explicit passages in Scripture (Deuteronomy, mostly) against the use of magic and the occult. Now I know players won't be casting any real spells here, but I'm a tad skittish about a game showing a version of Christianity where you've got prophets casting "spells" and such.

}:-)4

[egarvue]

I, too am a long time roleplayer (currently DM'ing a weekly game) and I think there's a lot of benefit to the games.

I also have some reservations about the "Testament" product - not that the source is bad, but that its going to stir up all of the old stereotypes of roleplayers, screaming and gnashing of teeth on the part of those who hate the hobby. I would feel better if the product was coming for the GURPS system; they have a history of putting out well researched, quality, good historical materials. Green Ronin is, well, a little green. I'm taking a wait and see approach.

[Wombat101]

"the dog men live in the lower caves...."

[MrB]

Roll the dice to see if I'm getting drunk

Are there any girls there? Where's the mountain dew?
Yep, I've seen the vid, and laughed my butt off, and so did all the friends I invited over for rpg night.

I'm involved with a gaming system that's completely based on "real" mythology. Nothing in the game that can't be verified by mythology research.
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