Re: [HOE] Gamers Beware! A word of warning!!!

[Tanya Ellenburg-Kimmet <tanya.ellenburg-kimmet@wright.edu>]

Kai Tave wrote:

> So, any protestors that Demon might drag out of the woodwork are already
> about ten years or so behind the bandwagon.  I seriously doubt that this is
> going to even show up on the radar, let alone be a significant blip.
>
> --Kai Tave

You're probably right.  Sorry to jump in on this so late, but I just wanted to
add that the fringes have always seemed to protest gaming in general, and scan
the bookshelves for things to yell "Aha!" at. I did a paper in 1990 for my
writing class on "How gaming is not evil" since I found that my professor had a
few nephews into gaming and she wanted to know more.  I found these books
dissing gaming in the Christian bookstore, and mind you, at the time I was
Christian, but I just had to laugh at the content.  In one of the books, the
author actually stated that you should keep your children from playing
roleplaying games, especially AD&D, and instead should read to them safe fantasy
literature like Tolkein and CS Lewis.  DUH! Tolkein was the inspiration for D&D!

I always wanted to send a copy of that book to Gary Gygax with a note saying,
how crazy fanatics can get sometimes that they defeat their own ideas.

Nah, the fringes will protest. The rest of society will snicker and move on.
Everyone has a right to an opinion. It's what you do with it that counts.

-imp
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Tanya Ellenburg-Kimmet
Dunbar Library Interlibrary Loan (WSU)
and Collection Development
Wright State University


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