Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for July 05, 2011

Those kids almost ended up trophies on a mantle!

Harry Potter is Griffindor

Seeing the cards in thier hands I thought they were playing Magic.

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Being a religious nut myself, I’d rather see our youth studying deities who rain fire and brimstone on the innocent.

Back in the day when we played DND we had dice miniatures some paper and a DM. What are the cards used for?

God is a Trickster deity.

Loki was the trickster God and our engineer friend is correct. Yawah is a trickster only in the myths of atheists like monty.

Lew, Lew, Lew. Be careful or you’ll need an asbestos umbrella.

Wow, those drugs sure have some powerful demons in them.

Abraham got Him down to only 1 good man, Gore. And I provide merely a caution for my old buddy.

This discussion is somewhat as if my two cats were to argue over how tuna fish gets into those little cans — they might have opinions (cats always do), but no possible way to comprehend even the true scope of the question, much less the answer.

The comparison gets darker when you consider what my cats might think of a trip to their veterinarian — a gentle, caring, and highly skilled man who subjects them to experiences they don’t like, because it’s genuinely for their own good in ways they couldn’t possibly comprehend.

And that’s really our situation. The stock answers actually aren’t BS if you stipulate that God is who and what He’s represented to be. (If you can’t or won’t entertain that concept, even for the sake of discussion, there’s not a whole lot left to discuss anyway.)

When I worked for TSR, an anti-D&D rally came to Lake Geneva. All employees were instructed to stay away from it. It turned out that the keynote speaker at the rally was the guy who was DM for my first game five years previously.

This comic had nothing to do with religion, God or the lack thereof.

You miss the d.and d harangue earlier, fale? And you must not be familiar with magic being a heavy part of many religions. Or of J. Hart’s Christian conversion. other that, you are right.

What, runs, Loki’s still the god of mischief? ;-)

Did I misread the book of Exodus and the seven plagues?

Those kids live in a world where there really are dungeons and dragons. Also wizards, cauldrons, etc. Shouldn’t they be playing a game about a world different from their everyday experiences, like Lawyers and Laptops? Or maybe Cube Farms and Cabbies.