Faith_Warrior said:
Played it a lot in the early-mid 80's. We wound up throwing out the rule book with all its pagan and demonic influences and created our own version. We had some problems while playing the pagan version, there were serious spiritual attacks being conducted on our group.
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One of my friends that loved to play a thief became a thief (prov 23:7) For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
honestly, the only time I've ever heard of someone who played D&D being "spiritually attacked" is when they failed to mention that, along with playing D&D, they were actually in to ouiji boards, demonism, or a significant amount of mind altering drugs (notice, all of the "demon attacks" happened in the 70s... ever since people stopped doing drugs so much... the demons left them alone when they played D&D.)
The fact is, you CAN have demons in a D&D campeign.... but they aren't like the demons in real life. The "demons" in D&D are simply creatures from a specific plane of existance that tend toward chaos and violence (what we define as "evil"). For example, demons are constantly at war with the devils. Devils, by the way are not some sort of supreme evil that wage war against God... they're just the more lawful inhabitance of that specific dimension... in fact they are constantly fighting the evil demons. Functionally, it is PERFECTLY possible to run into a lawful good pit fiend or balor... just because their dimension (in most campeign settings) is one plagued with war, doesn't mean all inhabitants are evil... they're just subject to a hostile environment. It's perfectly possible to see a chain demon on the celestial (good) plane of existance taking care of a lost orphan...
That aside, you can play D&D with no contact with any outside planes (including demons, angels, etc.). In my campeigns I usually stick with fighting stray bears, which mutate into dire bears, or feral dire bears, etc. as my PCs level up. I once had a month long campeign during which no one was injured... it was all about problem solving, puzzle solving, and role playing.
ANyway, I just wanted to throw that out. D&D is EXACTLY what you make it. You CAN play a campeign that will invite demons into your home, one where you kill gods, burn down orphanages, deal with devils, etc. But in order to do that, YOU have to choose to. An evil demonic person will play D&D in a way that isn't fit for a christian... If you played D&D and were attacked by a demon because of how you played... it wasn't because of the D20 system... it was because of how you were thinking outside the game.