Heehee, I'm 100% at level seven and I'm not level eight. Found it amusing. Anyway, on to the real rant... I am, was, and avid participant in Dungens and Dragons. Our social teacher, a great teach and a great guy all around, asked if anyone would be interested in getting a D&D club together, he would be the DM. A handful of us said yes. So it began. I should have seen the problems up front, because after the first week one of our players wasn't allowed to play (we'll call him by his D&D name, Talken) because his parents thought D&D was sacreligous and cult like. We stopped playing for a period of three months, and then got it back up again when Talken turned eighteen. His parents still didn't agree with it but they couldn't do much because he was an adult now and was able to make his onw decisions. We had four meetings since then, and then came parent/teacher interveiws for school. Talken's parents went up to our DM and said that he was using his authority as a teacher to imopse magic, and all these seemingly un-Christian things. Our DM is a religous man himself so I am sure he can see where they're coming from, so he promised he would have nothing to do with Dungens and Dragons. So here I am, and here my friends are, totally DMless and pissed off. The D&D club was not being held in school, and not even on school grounds. Teachers are allowed to have a life outside of marking and yelling at students, are they not? What if we had started this club in the summer, when there is no school? Would they make us stop when the school year started? Right now we are writing quite a few letters, one to Talken's parents and many others to parents and students, telling them our situation so we can get some support on our side. We might make it public and go to our local newspaper and spread the word so we can get back to excersising our imagination in the wonderful world of Dungens and Dragons. Our group realized this would have to be done very, very carefully. In doing all these things people will start to jump to conclusions that our DM made us, told us, whatever to fight this and that would make our situation much worse than it could ever become. That would not only get our DM in some major doodoo (because GS won't let me swear) but it would also possibly bring a very big uprising in our school and community about clubs being cults and brainwashing taking place in these clubs. I am debating whether or not to tell my parents about this because it took some major convincing to let me join in the first place. They haven't forgotten about the deaths and obsessiveness that happened with Dungeons and Dragons years back when it first came out. They were very concerned that this would take over my life, but instead of thinking it was devil spawn like some other parents they simply thought about brainwashing. They used the term before when they baned me from our church. Mind you, I'm still supposed to beleive in God and the Bible, but I'm not allowed to go to church. Weird. Anyway, that's not the point. This is wrong. Teachers should be able to do whatever the hell they want on the weekends, not as a teacher but just as a friend hanging out with some young people. Our DM isn't a bad person, he never tries to impose his religion on us like Talken's parents are trying to do to us, he always says that school needs to come before this club so we don't all start failing. This is wrong and I'm going to do something about it.