Joseph Laycock Quotes

#1. Both creators of Dungeons & Dragons were devout Christians.

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#2. Biblow suggested that rich fantasy lives prepare children to think about different options for dealing with frustration and allow them to consider the possible consequences of these options.

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#3. In an interview given at Gen Con in 2007, Gygax explained that he had been reluctant to talk about his identity as a Christian during the era of the panic: "I was afraid it would give Christianity a bad name because I did D&D."4

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#4. More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself.

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#5. While the romantics rejected the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, many theologians accepted it and sought to frame the Bible as a set of empirical data.

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#6. Someone in a state of flow is happy because he or she is interested in the task itself rather than an end result.

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#7. Like the Society for Creative Anachronism, The Ballad of the White Horse depicted "the Middle Ages as they should have been." Chesterton's ballad made a lasting impression on Robert E. Howard, who praised it in letters to his friend Clyde Smith.

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#8. An example of this is an urban legend told in some gaming circles about a gazebo.

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#9. We are narrative creatures, and stories render the world apprehensible. Narrative tells us about the world we live in and our place within it.

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