• psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      24 小时前

      She really should have learnt from the Jesus promoter how to be a cleric and raised her suicided friend from the dead. Perhaps she should have used her wiz powers first to get her dad to get her 1k gold worth of diamonds

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      125·
      6 天前

      The comic being fully committed to the idea that D&D teaches you actual magic spells that actually work in real life is fucking wild. Like, bro, this is supposed to be Christian propaganda but you’re out here telling me that one small spell can get me $200 of D&D sourcebooks? Sign me the fuck up for Satan, this Jesus dude ain’t shit.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        35·
        6 天前

        This is supposed to be Christian propaganda? So the fucked up comic by the same guy that one of the other comments is talking about is actually serious instead of being a story about how much Christianity sucks? That’s seriously fucked up …

        • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          33·
          5 天前

          Welcome to Chick tracts! Evangelicals like (or used to like, dunno if they still do) buying copies to leave in public bathrooms, on public benches, etc. Somehow this is supposed to ‘bring people to God’.

            • Demdaru@lemmy.world
              14·
              5 天前

              …wow…my whole country is full of satanists, cuz we mourn the dead - admittedly day after halloween, which are only recently slowly adding - instead of being festive.

              And it’s christian holiday soooo…lol

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              7·
              5 天前

              I find that one really funny because yeah as a pagan it is my most solemn holiday of the year, I light a candle for my dead loved ones and have a nice little chat with them hoping they can hear it somehow. You know, normal stuff people do to honor the dead.

              ETA: It also marks the beginning of the season of death, where the days keep getting shorter, it keeps getting colder, and life rapidly winds down for the winter. It’s a good time to reflect on endings and to remember that endings lead to new beginnings.

              • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                5 天前

                That ritual is not on the pre-approved list. You must go through the proper channels. Your deviance has beed noted.

                But in all seriousness, this is exactly how these reactionary evangelicals want to control people: take things that are perfectly normal human activities and put them exclusively under the purview of their own structures and hierarchies.

          • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
            13·
            5 天前

            I had one left on my door once, and in the most amazing time my gyno office had a huge random stack someone left and I took every single one.

            Handed them all to friends to see the batshitness.

            Guy use to go to conventions and hand them out.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 天前

          Jack chick was an insane evangelical Christian who genuinely didn’t understand stuff like how he came off to non Christians

        • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          5 天前

          It’s not actual propaganda per se, evangelicals in particular are trying to provoke a reaction they can try to litigate. It’s a grift.

      • nickiwest@lemmy.world
        6·
        5 天前

        Yes, but the price of that temporary earthly magic is your immortal soul!

        So, theoretically, it’s not worth it.

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
      32·
      6 天前

      All I get from that is that D&D gives you super powers, and the author of that comic is envious because they never got invited to play.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        24 小时前

        If role playing games gave you the powers of your character I’m torn between Palladium druid and d&d 3.5 druid

        3.5 druid is winning due to its ability to cast reincarnate, and to craft contingent spells. The trick being to get to level 11 for the contingent spell feat in the modern world

        The Palladium druid doesn’t get to live forever but has better access to fewer spells

        Also I live in a city built along ley lines which is good for the Palladium druid

        Since it’s all made up though and the games are so closely related I’m sure I can blend them and give the Palladium druid the d&d feats and spells

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
      201·
      6 天前

      $200? What, she got like two books and shitty generic plastic figures? Big deal.

      • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        6 天前

        The inflation calculator that I found online says that’s the equivalent today of about $600 compared to the mid 80s when this was written.

        But yeah, that is underwhelming for having literal magic powers.

  • neoman4426@fedia.io
    551·
    6 天前

    Whenever I see any of this guy’s work I always think of the one that was so absolutely vile even he stopped selling it. Guy’s molesting his daughter, a neighbor finds out, and instead of reporting or anything, wants in. Daughter comes up positive on an STD test at a checkup, and the doctor confronts the guy. Instead of reporting, doctor’s a Jack Chick brand Christian, so just prays with him. Guy goes home and tells his wife about what he’d been doing, and how it’s all okay, because a dead Jewish guy forgives him, so no need to suffer any actual consequences. Wife admits she knew and had been abusing the daughter for having the audacity to be molested. They call the daughter in, and she’s not a teenager or anything as might have been assumed which would be bad enough, but a straight up toddler. So she’s got a possibly lifetime illness, a lifetime of trauma, but it’s all okay, because Jesus.

  • ooterness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    6 天前

    Just roll up a new character with all the same stats and a slightly different name, like everyone else.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        23 小时前

        I’m pretty sure the PHB says to roll up a new character if yours dies (also a poison trap calls for a con saving throw (which a rogue has little chance of making)) but the satanic panic never cared about what the games actually said or did

    • nickiwest@lemmy.world
      10·
      5 天前

      According to the story, if your character dies in-game, by that point you’re so addicted to the black magic that you ultimately can’t go on living without it.

    • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 天前

      Possible. Though I like thinking about other possibilities. My Tabaxi cleric has led me to produce so many backup characters - a Warlock, a Monk, a Barbarian and a Wizard, though that last one is still WIP, and I’m thinking a Paladin as the Cleric’s old mentor - I could solo run an entire spin-off.

    • Aielman15@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 天前

      In my current campaign, I’ve tried thrice to die. The DM always pulls some bullshit and lets me survive :(

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        14·
        5 天前

        I would understand the concomitant urge to act like you’re an Indestructible Demigod of Finding Out, but the wisdom of my years are telling me that you need to maybe have a heart to heart with the DM, and explain how the stakes don’t feel real if you’re always one bad roll away from a Deus Ex Machina. Tell them that they should feel free to let fate take its toll, that you accept the risk, and that you will do your level best to have any accidental deaths mean something and contribute to the story.

        • Aielman15@lemmy.world
          10·
          5 天前

          Haha yeah, that’s definitely the right way to go, but the problem is not wrong expectations. He already DM’d a campaign for me a few years back and I knew what I was getting into. It’s just not his style. I crave for gritty old-school dungeon crawling, while he loves narrative-heavy games where dialogue takes priority and backstories tie heavily with in-game events.

          It’s not all bad though, we still have fun, and my group takes turns at DMing - we all get to play what we like eventually, and offers variety in the long run. I would not play tabletop with any other group.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
            6·
            5 天前

            I had something like that with my last group. I was the guy who was always playing someone crazy to die for some reason or another, but when it came my time to DM I’d do way too much worldbuilding and make everything insane and lore driven. I still haven’t found a new group after moving far away, I miss it.