Dark Dungeons

One of Jack Chick's most satirized tracts is Dark Dungeons, which depicts a group of teenagers playing Dungeons & Dragons.

When one player's character dies, the other player tells her: "Marcie, get out of here! YOU'RE DEAD! You don't exist anymore." The game master then tells the surviving player that she will teach her how to cast real spells, claiming that the Dying Earth style Vancian magic system of D&D was already preparing her for spell casting. The reader then sees a hidden underworld of dark sorcerers; Debbie starts casting real spells and with these magical powers is able to exert mind control over her father. This is followed by Marcie committing suicide because her character died. The game master tells Debbie that the game and her character are more important than real life. An evangelist comforts Debbie, telling her that in fact, it is Jesus who is most important. After going to a church meeting, Debbie eagerly converts and attends a book burning of D&D-related materials, at which the preacher calls the game "filth of Satan" and possessed of "demonic forces."

Chick had been told by John Todd that C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, both noted Christians, were satanic, so the original tract warned readers about these authors. These admonitions were removed from subsequent printings of the tract as well as the electronic version published on Chick's website.

There are many parodies of the Dark Dungeons tract, using popular culture references such as Mystery Science Theater 3000. While Jack Chick has never translated Dark Dungeons into another language, the comic has been translated to create a Spanish-language parody.

Black Leaf

Black Leaf is the name of a thief played by the character Marcie in "Dark Dungeons". She is killed by a combination of a trap she failed to notice and one bitch of a DM that didn't even give her a saving throw. Marcie, tragically upset by the death of her character, later commits suicide by changing a lightbulb with her mouth.

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  I hate rolling up new characters too.

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  Rule 34