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From: mjcarmody@watmath.UUCP (Mike Carmody)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: FRP games--a work of the devil... :-(
Message-ID: <16283@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 09:51:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 09:51:47 1985
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References: <6601@ucla-cs.ARPA> <16240@watmath.UUCP> <4191@alice.UUCP> <723@umd5.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjcarmody@watmath.UUCP (Barry Rosetti)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: Hastur, Cuthlu (wagnl ftagn (sp?)), various other dieties

In article <723@umd5.UUCP> don@umd5.UUCP (Don Preuss) writes:
>>Seriously, those making such claims, at least in the NJ area,
>>don't know of the fact that D&D(Tm, see above) isn't all there is, and tend
>>to lump all FRP under the same banner.   I wonder how they'd
>>react to Gamma World?
>>
>
>Gamma World? Sheesh.. That's nothing ! 
>Try Call of Cthulhu - "Look, Hastur just ate your uncle" ...
>
>-- 
  This brings up a reasonable point.   To get philosophical, maybe the
  fundamentalists (and others) see D&D as such a threat to their narrow view 
  of life (in that it deals with scores of dieties, imagination, and
  ingenuity) that they have to react in some way to deal with it.
  The constant headache of these people cutting us down without
  knowing what they're talking about should probably dealt with in 
  the way they preach (but don't practice).  ie. Understand that
  they're insecure SOB's (ie. understanding).
  
                   Barry Rosetti,
                      {??}!watdcsu!watmath!mjcarmody
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