A kindly reader (cowboy hat tip to him) sent me a link to the following cartoon.
First a little background, though: In Dungeons and Dragons and similar games, players are given a "saving throw"–a roll of the dice to determine whether they will fall victim to certain kinds of attacks (e.g., magical ones). A character who succeeds in this roll is said to have "saved."
Now with that background . . .
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Doesn’t anyone notice that little hand motion Jesus always makes just as the die is being thrown? They’re so hep to the mind tricks, but they always fall for that one….
Hehehe…thanks for posting the cartoon Jimmy.
Ah, what memories…
As for missing that hand motion, it must be our minds are too highly trained…
hehehehe!
I got the joke without needing an explanation. So sad!
We need some kind of gamer T-shirt based on all those “natural high” sayings.
“My natural 20 is Jesus.”
Jesus, of course, is the original anti-munchkin, anti-Monty-Haul, anti-power gamer, character-oriented roleplayer.
I mean, can you really imagine anyone else saying, “My character is a half-man, half-God who does carpentry for a living until He moves out of His parent’s basement at the age of thirty and becomes a homeless evangelist/healer/exorcist”? And you’d never find _Him_ checking corpses for magic items and spare change. Nooooo. OTOH, I suspect He had to be very careful about not accidentally making Wishes (or in His case, Commands).