Dungeons and Dragons

[jfrog]

Some people have a concept that the game of D&D is Satan incarnate. I'm not going to try and convince anyone it isn't. What I am going to share is something I learned by examining it's rule system.

1. Some rules and rule combinations are ambiguous. In such cases it's okay to go with whatever interpretation makes the most sense to you/your group.

2. There are general rules and specific rules. Specific rules override the general ones. Although sometimes it's difficult to decipher which rule is supposed to be the more general one and which is supposed to be the more specific one. In such cases refer to 1.

3. There are two major interpretations of rules. Rules as written and rules as intended. Rules as written discussions often bog down into long debates even if they are somewhat interesting. Rules as intended discussions are generally short because everyone agrees.

I think Christianity as a whole could be a lot more unified if more of a bible as intended approach was adopted. While there can still be interesting discussions about what the bible means as written I think taking more of an as intended approach would cause people to spend more time "doing things for God" and less time trying to decipher and figure out what the bible means as written.