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  1. These would include the early classic works of Robert E. Howard (CONAN THE BARBARIAN and its many sequels, KULL THE CONQUEROR, etc.) some Edgar Rice Burroughs; as well as more modern writers such as Tolkien and his LORD OF THE RINGS series and contemporary writers (who now number in the dozens - this genre has exploded in the past 20 years, and has blended
  2. DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PLAYER'S HANDBOOK, CORE RULEBOOK I, (design team Montz Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams), Wizards of the Coast, Renton, WA, 2000, p.21.
  3. Ibid. , p.88.
  4. David Cook, ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PLAYERS HANDBOOK, Second Edition, TSR, Lake Geneva WI, 1989, p. 46.
  5. Cook, Tweet and Williams, op. Cit., p.89-90.
  6. David Cook, 1989, p. 46.
  7. Cook, Tweet and Williams, op.cit, p.89.
  8. Ibid., p. 67.
  9. Ibid., p. 68.
  10. Gary Gygax, ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PLAYER'S HANDBOOK, First Edition, TSR, Lake Geneva, WI, 1978, p. 25.
  11. David Cook, ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS MASTER'S GUIDE, Second Edition, TSR, Lake Geneva WI., 1989, p. 46 and 69.
  12. John Eric Holmes, "Confessions of a Dungeon Master," Psychology Today, 11/80.
  13. Cook, PLAYERS HANDBOOK., p.25.
  14. Ibid., p.30.
  15. Ibid. , p.25.
  16. Ibid. , p.33.
  17. Ibid. , p. 35.
  18. Ibid. , p. 38.
  19. Ibid., p.40.
  20. Ibid. , p. 41.
  21. Ibid. , p. 42.
  22. Some variations on this theme would be more animistic or pantheistic- saying that the universe is somehow alive, a single-celled organism of which we are a part. The end result is the same. Either way, there is no sovereign God involved.
  23. Cook, Tweet and Williams, op.cit, p.148.
  24. Ibid., p.156.
  25. Ibid. , p.154.
  26. Ibid. , p.153.
  27. Mr. Freeman's article was forwarded to us by multiple senders, but we have been unable to track down a website with an authorized use of it.
  28. Anton Szandor LaVey, THE SATANIC RITUALS, …
  29. Michael Stackpole, "The Pulling Report," copyright 1990, p. 10-11. This is available on the web from a major fantasy role-playing game website.
  30. Cook, Tweet and Williams, op.cit, p.90.
  31. Ibid., pp.24, 30, 33, 36, 38,41, 44, 47, 49, and 52.
  32. Concerns Christians Should Have About Dungeons & Dragons (C) 1995 Jeff Freeman
  33. Ibid., p. 1.
  34. Ibid. , p. 2.
  35. Ibid.
  36. Ibid. p. 3.
  37. Ibid.
  38. Ibid.
  39. Ibid., p. 4.
  40. Wendell Amstutz and Steve Lansing, Ph.D., EXPOSING AND CONFRONTING SATAN AND ASSOCIATES, 6th edition, (1996) Appendix B by Richard Noe (a former Dungeon Master), from National Community Resource Center, PO Box 87, Rochester, MN. 55903, p. 210.
  41. Ibid.
  42. Ibid.
  43. Freeman, op.cit., p. 4
  44. Ibid., p.5.
  45. Ibid.
  46. Ibid. p.6.
  47. Ibid.
  48. Ibid.
  49. Ibid.
  50. Several websites haven stated that Ms. Pulling passed away from cancer in 1997.
  51. Peter Leithart & George Grant, A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, Dominion Press, Ft. Worth, TX. 1987, p.5.
  52. Statistics 2-8 courtesy of Yvonne Peterson, EXODUS S.A. OCCULT AWARENESS PROGRAM, P.O. Box 700293, San Antonio, TX. 78270; 1987, p.9.
  53. Salt Lake Tribun, 3/2/88.
  54. Amarillo Globe Times, 1/19/92
  55. Thomas Wedge, THE SATAN HUNTER, Daring Books, Canton, OH 1981, p. 109.
  56. Pat Pulling, quoted in FILE 18 NEWSLETTER, 2/22/87, from CCIN, 222 N. Latah St. Boise, ID. 83706-2657.
  57. Stackpole, op.cit, p. 40-41.
  58. Ibid. , p.4
  59. Ibid., p. 10-11
  60. See LUCIFER DETHRONED, Chick Publications, Chino, CA., 1993, especially chapter 14, for more on the dangerous reality of the NECRONOMICON and its place in modern black magic and Transyuggothian metaphysics,
  61. Stackpole, p. 40.
  62. TSR is the former owner of D&D.; Wizards of the Coast currently owns it.
  63. Amstutz, Lansing and Noe, op.cit., p.208.
  64. ENCYCLOPEDIA MAGICA (numerous authors), 1999, TSR (a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast), vol. 4, p.1251.
  65. C.S. Lewis actually coined this term, but I think he had an important insight here.

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