In this thread, some friendly advice from Jack T Chick

is it me or is it kinda weird that Chick just skips the actual praying both times in that strip. Like, I wonder what magic happens in those "10 minutes"

This one's a doozy:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

Legendary, that one.

Wait is the dude still alive?

88 apparently.

thing i like about that one is that debbie learns the secret real spells beneath d&d as a reward for reaching level 8, which is like if the church of scientology told you about xenu and the volcanoes after you gave them $20.75

Satanists are an undiscriminating bunch compared to Scientologists.

"Dark Dungeons" is getting its own film adaptation, played straight.

http://darkdungeonsthemovie.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk2Pr9jXCr8

How people have committed suicide due to RPGs?

The American Association of Suicidology has concluded that RPGs don’t play a role in suicide, and the Association of Gifted-Creative Children of California did a survey of all psychological autopsies of adolescent suicides and could not find a single one that was linked to RPGs. However, that DOES NOT mean that it doesn’t happen. For all we know, BIG-GAMING may just be very good at covering them up.

What evidence is there that RPG’s use real world spells?

William Schnoebelen has publically stated that, as a witch high priest (Alexandrian tradition) during the period 1973-84, he was approached by a roleplaying company to make sure their spells were accurate; http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp

In addition he warns us the “the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real” which is why those dangers are exposed in Dark Dungeons the movie

http://www.chick.com/articles/frpg.asp

I call your use of the words "played straight" into question.

Finally, something to fit that double bill with Mazes & Monsters!

Well they weren't winking directly into the camera lens, is what I'm saying.

Plus I enjoyed the shot of D20s splashing thru cheap movie blood syrup

"In addition he warns us the “the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real”

God I hope so

This was his life!

https://twitter.com/ChickPub/status/790604219376033792

somebody goofed :(

"Open the book of life!"
"His name does not appear Lord"

So mentioning it on a public twitter account brings out the batshit rightwingers.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/10/24/haw-haw-haw/

...Chick’s cartoons were infused with the abominable fancy — the idea that the supreme delight awaiting true believers in Heaven would be that they got to watch the eternal torment of wicked sinners in Hell. That was pretty much the essence of Chick’s faith. Nowhere in his ubiquitous cartoon pamphlets would you find any hint of love for God, love for Jesus, or love for neighbor. That wasn’t what animated him. He was driven, instead, by the eschatological hope that one day God would settle all the arguments he was never able to win here on earth — settle them with remorseless, bloodthirsty finality.

[...]

That stunted, hostile form of religion was expressed not just in Chick’s tracts, but in the way those tracts were employed as a kind of passive-aggressive “evangelism.” This was never primarily an attempt to “seek and to save the lost,” but rather a way of fulfilling some perceived minimal obligation that would exculpate believers from any responsibility for the longed-for damnation of others. These tracts, in other words, don’t seem to be distributed in the hope that others will read them and “get saved,” but with the idea that they will make it impossible for the doomed and damned to claim they were never told. They weren’t an attempt to nudge others toward Heaven, but to amplify the case that they deserved Hell.

When someone gives you a Jack Chick tract, it’s not because they don’t want you to go to Hell, it’s because they don’t want you to be able to blame them for not warning you before you do. They’re just hoping to dispel any potential guilt that might one day detract from their full enjoyment of the abominable fancy. They want to look down from Heaven and watch your eternal torment in Hell unbothered by any lingering regret.

good riddance to human garbage. and human garbage who sucked at drawing!

A collection of mock Tracts: some worthwhile, others are weird.

http://foo.ca/wp/chick-tract-satire/

Does anybody know where I would find the spoof one, I think repurposed from the real D&D one, where the girl screams "I'll destroy anyone who opposes the furious countercultural assault of noise music"?