Tag: Dungeons & Dragons
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My most feared monster
The most fun monster I ever created for dungeons and dragons was a Smurf. They had one hit point and could only be killed by one hit point of strangulation. Two hit points popped them in half and the two halves grew into two new Smurfs. All extra damage had a similar effect. 10 points…
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My Faith Is Autistic
I am coming to grips with the fact that I have never been a religious person. My heart just isn’t in it. I am a man of faith however because I know the gods are more diverse than all the books about them. I first started to question Christianity when I was about fourteen or…
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Too Many Video Games?
I am a first generation commercial gamer. I played the Atari when it came out at seven. By twelve I had branched out to Dungeons & Dragons. A few years later I worked all summer to afford a Commodore 64, a disk drive, a cassette recorder, and enough games to keep me out of any…
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The Before Time
Life Without A Computer I am a first generation gamer. I was around when Pong and Zork became commercial successes. I bought my first personal computer when I was fifteen. I worked all summer to buy a Commodore 64 and all the externals to make it worth having. Before that and as computers were becoming…
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Cleaning Dream
I had a dream that I had to pack up and clean out an apartment that I was leaving. It was strewn with my personal effects. A complete mess. I opened up the bathroom and a bunch of rats scurried out of sight startling me. There was one rat who stayed in the bathtub and…
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Positive Syncretism
When I was growing up I played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons. I would entertain myself with mini adventures almost every day. There was one source book that fascinated me called Deities and Demigods. It had a list of various gods from many of the world’s more famous pantheons. Each god had a description…
Latter Day Sinner 