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I play a game (Warhammer 40k) which is a table top strategy game. I’m ex military and really enjoy the game in all its strategic and army composition balancing (different models from different armies do different things). However, the game uses magic (psychic abilities) that either boost your army or damage your opponent. My question would be that even though it’s fake and I know that real magic is wrong would this game be wrong since it’s just a strategy game and psychics is only used to boost your army? For anyone who knows the game in tyranids (giant space bugs much like ants just absorbing planets to populate) and orks (guys who just like to run around fighting everyone cause it’s fun)
 
As long as your not practicing shamanism or wicca IRL, you’re fine.
 
If you aren’t deliberately inviting something in, and you aren’t accidentally leading other people to do so there isn’t a problem.
 
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It’s a game. Games where you have characters using magic aren’t dangerous, just like playing a witch character in a production of “Macbeth” isn’t dangerous. In both cases, it’s only make believe.
 
Any game that celebrates elements of the occult serves to desensitize us to the occult… if nothing else. In my opinion, you are not being overly scrupulous. Your very suspicion may hold the answer you seek.

That said, I’m not familiar with the game in question. However, I have seen plenty that I would avoid indeed. Therefore, the argument that “it’s only a game” does little to address fundamental concerns.
 
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To be clear I was not suspicious of the game being wrong for using magic until very recently and have played the game for years without even considering it. I have heard that priest even say that yes it is just a story and make believe. I would never allow myself to become to become involved in the occult even if the army that I use uses things like teams buffs and the like. I read strong arguments that things such as even lord of rings includes magic (written my a catholic) and the lion the witch and the wardrobe (also written by a Christian not sure if he was catholic) would be wrong also which do no seem to be condemned by the church. I do not use the armies that are evil only the animal like army and the army who just like to fight.
 
As long as you always play FOR THE EMPEROR and not for the dirty heretics, xenos, or the weeaboo space commies all is well in my book.

Have a Black Templar and always remember:
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I agree that dismissing things as harmless ignores the danger of trivializing the concepts within, but that doesn’t mean that a game that contains them can’t be played safely. A game based around subjectivity and moral relativism, for instance, can be played for fun, as long as you remain aware of how those things break down.
 
I play Dungeons and Dragons. There is nothing wrong with playing tabletop RP games, as long as you remember that they are only games. The danger lies with other players, who may be less moral or actually into magic.
 
The “magic” in these games is as real as the technology, people, planets and so on. They’re game mechanics with flavor on top of them, if the flavor was drugs that boosted your strength or a sound wave that damaged someone’s thinking skills instead of psionics you’d have given it no second thoughts whatsoever I imagine.
 
@Dan123 That is a very good point if it was something like an attack that was super sonic that adversely affected the opponent it would even be something I would think about.

I also talked to one of my deacon friends who said that you obviously don’t want to deal with anyone in the occult, but as long as it just stays in the game then you should be good, which is what I’ve been told several times but hearing it from someone with church authority just helps me in realizing that it’s just a and game and not something that actually is being practiced in real life
 
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it’s just a and game and not something that actually is being practiced in real life
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Never forget there are people out there that think they are using magick to attain real world gains. Slaanesh worshipers in lore are really no different from the sex cults that plauge humanity IRL. Art mimics reality, more often than you think.
 
@FrancisFan43 I know I don’t use any of the chaos armies, that’s why i use tyranids and orks. I even made my own space marines chapter mechanicus Christi with crosses and the Roman soldier as their unit situation
 
I respectfully disagree. Outlining my case would demand a fairly long and drawn out discussion though… I gotta throw in the towel on this one 🙂
 
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All this is based on make believe. I think if you can make the distinction between what is real and what is not then you should be able to play that game.
 
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The danger lies with other players, who may be less moral or actually into magic.
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Here, too, lies the opportunity to evangelise. But it very much depends on your personal charisms. 👍🙏
 
@GraceJ that’s what I tried to do with one of my groups with the Christian symbols. When asked I would say it’s a Christian symbol
 
playing as xenos
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But in all seriousness, how does your homebrew Chapter work? Do they worship the emperor as a god or is the emperor merely a man and the one true God is God?
 
@FrancisFan43 they follow the iron hands lore (and its been a smile since I actually read there codex) but basically the same way that the adeptus mechanicum found some reason to think there was another god. My iron hands did the same thing and found that logically that the Great I Am is the only logical God of the universe and not the emperor. I figured that worked for iron hands marines since they are all about logic and not emotions
 
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