#TWIN DUNGEON PRINCESSES COVERS PROFESSIONAL#

I’ve heard a pastor at a very large, hip, megachurch warn people against playing. Now, I imagine that most of the people reading this article don’t need an apologetic for D&D, but the suspicion is still real, especially in Christian circles. A popular game in the very niche tabletop gaming world, the moral panic these cases incited both popularized the game and cemented its reputation. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is that Dungeons & Dragons, first published in 1974, came to national prominence through a series of high profile cases, those of James Egbert III and Irving Pulling II, that made the game a household name for all the wrong reasons.

It will do nothing good for my teaching career in Christian higher ed. Writing publicly that I play D&D will not play well with some of my Facebook friends. Many of us still keep our hobby on the down low. More than half of us grew up in houses where playing D&D was forbidden. The beauty of the game is the simplicity with which one can evoke a scene, and the freedom given to the players to creatively interact. We’re all fully employed, all happily married, and all Christians.

#TWIN DUNGEON PRINCESSES COVERS PROFESSIONAL#

Benedict), a PhD student playing a druid, and an IT professional playing a barbarian. There’s an engineer playing a gnome tinkerer, a fellow academic playing a monk (think Shaolin, not St. Sometimes we play Codenames or card games, but most of the time we play the tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) Dungeons and Dragons (D&D).

In any case, here’s mine: once a week, a group gathers at my house to play games. They say confessions are good for the soul but bad for the reputation.

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