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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 20:51:12 JST myrmepropagandist

   I watched this video about how the Mormon afterlife works and I have never seen a people who needed D&D in their lives so badly.

   There are all these levels, and side levels, and revival conditions and diagrams that look like dungeon maps.

   A lot of suffering could have been avoided if there were just some well-placed roleplaying clubs out west like 150 years ago. Send these people some D20s ... jeeeez

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 20:51:09 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @futurebird Well, what's interesting is that Smith's original tales about the angel Moroni, the golden plates, and the seer stones, all come from the tropes common to folklore from treasure seeking, the 19th century pastime of trying to find treasure hidden in the ground. Smith was a scryer in treasure seeking teams, and at the time he was active in the hobby, stories of spirits guarding the treasure were common. In a way, this is a case of Ye Olde D&D jumping the rails.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 20:51:10 JST myrmepropagandist

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     Maybe the idea of creating your own imaginary worlds with their own rules & stories is more revolutionary than I've suspected? Making a whole universe, investing in it for a bit with some friends and having a good time... and then just letting it go until next week. The idea that anyone can be creative and help build these worlds.

     A revolutionary way to channel human imagination and the primal need for stories meaning and fantasy.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 08:04:50 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @cshlan @futurebird That's definitely a feedback loop. Plenty of the ideas in high fantasy came from various classical texts on alchemy and the like, then high fantasy in turn shaped the imaginations of modern neopagans and occultists.

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     csh (cshlan@dawdling.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 08:04:51 JST csh

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail
     Our fiction becomes our myths which become our religion. I wonder how much of D&D will work it's way into religion in the coming centuries.
     @futurebird