tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post5475468488322681676..comments2024-03-27T21:32:28.527-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: Review: DragonRaidTimothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-38846914351582575652022-04-22T21:43:16.468-05:002022-04-22T21:43:16.468-05:00Mine is also an original copy. All of this is in t...Mine is also an original copy. All of this is in there. Hertzeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15012457060307788110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-33445991751543030972022-03-31T00:38:02.950-05:002022-03-31T00:38:02.950-05:00Hertzey, it could be I missed that. Though I do h...Hertzey, it could be I missed that. Though I do have the older, original system and not the one you can buy from their website.Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-42081394720991753992022-03-30T20:27:02.915-05:002022-03-30T20:27:02.915-05:00To start, I'm alo an atheist. I find this revi...To start, I'm alo an atheist. I find this review interesting. I almost wondered if we had different games. For example, your notes about the monsters does not cover enough of what is written. Not only are all monsters evil, every single one of them has a home planet. A home planet that exiled them. If you start reading as to why they were exiled it gets bad fast. Take the Selfoes for example. Their great sin is doing good deeds without praising the overlord. Good point! Anything that potentialy makes you not think about the overlord all the time should be banned! (page 39 of the Lightraider handbook, also they are totes a really bad cover for discriminating against anyone who is not their exact brand of xtian at the same time). Then you have Muks (page 37) who worried. before I was willing to give the author a pass on having it out for anxiety. Learning from your blog post that he was a social worker now makes this one so much worse. Any one affected by a Muk will worry all the time. How a planet could be so cold as to get rid of an entire group of people because they have anxiety is beyond me. The Gall Buzzard (page 29) has bad bathing habits. The Cave spiders (Page 27) told lies. And to bring it back to absolute horror, we have the Fluster Beast. Why did these creatures get exiled from their planet for? "Unholy mating." I mean I can point to either your notes about the art, or we can talk about how xtians near 40 years after this printing are still kicking their LGBT kids out of their house. Either way, this game has a ton of baggage on it. You may not want to be an asshole about this, in that case I will. It's trash. It's a game that is set up to teach people how to get them to change their religion. The reason it didn't get popular is timing. Otherwise this could have become a huge thing, which for many of us who grew up religous is terrifying. Hertzeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15012457060307788110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-49166866521593094762021-07-29T22:58:26.199-05:002021-07-29T22:58:26.199-05:00@p1r8z0r,
Yeah. There are some uncomfortable para...@p1r8z0r,<br /><br />Yeah. There are some uncomfortable parallels to be sure.<br /><br />@JB,<br /><br />Reading it yes, it is not only very sincere but enthusiastically so. It is very interesting and huge value for the money. Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-44815506127017901182021-07-29T15:16:30.959-05:002021-07-29T15:16:30.959-05:00A RPG based on actual and spiritual colonialism wh...A RPG based on actual and spiritual colonialism where the locals have no souls... art imitating life here?p1r8z0rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02232264043854801391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-70886072249661042432021-07-29T13:33:38.781-05:002021-07-29T13:33:38.781-05:00As a Christian gamer myself, I never saw DR as a &...As a Christian gamer myself, I never saw DR as a "cheap attempt to capitalize on their faith" ...neither at the time it came out (when I was a kid) or now (as an adult). I'm a pretty cynical guy, but to my eyes the game feels very sincere to me.<br /><br />There is a portion of Christianity that finds evangelism to be far more of a priority than myself: getting people to "accept" Jesus Christ as their savior, and whatnot. DragonRaid, for me, feels much more of an attempt to take advantage of the RPG phenomenon to teach (scripture) and evangelize (the Good Word) in a fun way. I find it a pretty nifty design in this regard, and it has some rather cool mechanics.<br /><br />'Course, I'm already converted and my faith is a bit more...um...nuanced than simply learning Bible verses and which sins are "deadly" ones. The game has a pretty small niche of appeal...the target demographic is extremely slim. <br /><br />Once upon a time, there were families with serious concerns about the impact of games like D&D on their children, but who were still open to the idea of such games, so long as they were helpful in promoting their (very specific) faith ideas...I had two buddies growing up that fell into this category (one was a Born Again Christian, the other a Catholic from a family of a more evangelistic, er "charismatic" strain). These days it feels more like people are either "all in" or "all out" on fantasy stuff...which makes DR more an interesting relic than a playable game.<br /><br />But there sure is a lot of stuff in the box!JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-6932921061152095492021-07-29T03:32:00.083-05:002021-07-29T03:32:00.083-05:00Clearly a better effort than the Redemption CCG, w...Clearly a better effort than the Redemption CCG, which didn't even have a costing mechanism, so there was no reason to play the less powerful cards if you could buy enough packs.Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.com