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What does satanic mean? If someone is satanic, then they generally worship the devil and perform rituals. What is Dungeons and Dragons? It is a pen and paper role-playing game. Because people play it, it doesn't mean they worship the devil and there are no rituals involved. After all, the game is completely harmless and it is there to provide people with something fun to do/play.

Why then do people refer to Dungeons and Dragons as satanic? It is because people have an incessant need to find something to complain about and while this is not meant as a slight to very religious people, some things need to be taken a little less seriously. Life is a lot better that way when trivial things aren't worried about and it's also a lot better when people don't seek things to complain about, especially when they are the silliest things they can find. What needs to be asked as well: how exactly does someone playing a harmless game affect you in the slightest? It will not turn them into devil worshippers or cause them to suddenly start sacrificing people. If it ever did happen, then there must have already been something wrong with whoever does so.

The game:

The game's set in a fantasy world. People sit around a table and roll dice in order to play it. A dungeon master (otherwise known as a DM) guides the adventures that the players have. In order to play first though, they need to create characters and their attributes are again determined by a roll of the dice, just like everything their character does is.

Characters start at level one, weak and with only basic equipment. They will fight weak foes such as goblins (actual enemies are determined by the DM as is the story for the campaign) and graduate onto stronger foes like dragons as they level up and get better equipment. When characters reach level twenty, the epic game begins where the foes are all very strong. Either that or characters get swarmed by numerous, weak foes.

So, what does the game consist of? It consists of a bunch of people sitting around a table and rolling dice while collecting equipment, having a laugh and socialising with each other. All of this while they defeat imaginary enemies conjured out of thin air by the DM. There's also an element of role-play where the players try to imagine how their characters would act. But this does not mean they actually become their characters and act as they would in real life.

There are also demons present in the game. There are also rituals performed, like sacrifices to evil gods. Other dark themes are also explored. But this is all within the confines of a game, not reality. As such, a game cannot be defined as being satanic because it is harmless and exists for the sole purpose of providing people with something they deem fun to do. Essentially, it serves the same purpose like games such as Monopoly do. By that same token, the people who play Dungeons and Dragons cannot be defined as Satanists. They are only having a good time, which harms nobody.

What it comes down to is that common sense can sometimes be over-ridden by the need to complain over the most trivial of things. It is human nature.

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