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http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region/saudi-religious-cops-trained-to-fight-magic-2016-02-02-1.619559?utm_content=buffer1177c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Quote:Saudi religious cops trained to fight magic
Training course on combating black arts
Saudi Arabia’s influential religious police have started training its new members on how to fight magic and arrest those involved in black art in the Gulf Kingdom.
Newspapers said 30 members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice have completed a five-day course on combating magic at the Commission’s headquarters in the capital Riyadh.
They said the course covered theoretical and practical lessons on how to deal with magic, destroy black art work and identify magicians and sorcerers.
Magic is strictly banned in conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, where those convicted for involvement in sorcery have been executed.
Because you never know when a terrorist may pop up and cast a Fireball spell at you! 
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(02-17-2016, 12:09 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region/saudi-religious-cops-trained-to-fight-magic-2016-02-02-1.619559?utm_content=buffer1177c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Because you never know when a terrorist may pop up and cast a Fireball spell at you!
Do you think they are packing a couple of d10's, for saving throws ?
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This modern day world saddens me. As I young child I viewed to Middle East as a place filled with magic: flying carpets, Ali Baba and open sesame, genies and 3 wishes, ect... The curtain has been pulled back and the true ugliness is releaved.
There is much truth in the phrase: Ignorance is bliss.
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(02-17-2016, 01:01 PM)bfine32 Wrote: This modern day world saddens me. As I young child I viewed to Middle East as a place filled with majic: flying carpets, Ali Baba and open sesame, genies and 3 wishes, ect... Then current has been pulled back and the true ugliness is releaved.
Their is much truth in the phrase: Ignorance is bliss.
Oh that magic existed, but it's illegal now. Sorry Charlie!
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http://www.newsweek.com/2015/11/20/meet-former-pentagon-scientist-who-says-psychics-can-help-american-spies-393004.html
Quote:Twenty years ago this month, the CIA released a report with the unassuming title, “An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications.” The 183-page white paper was more like a white flag—it was the CIA’s public admission, after years of speculation, that U.S. government agencies had been using a type of ESP called “remote viewing” for more than two decades to help collect military and intelligence secrets. At a cost of about $20 million, the program had employed psychics to visualize hidden extremist training sites in Libya, describe new Soviet submarine designs and pinpoint the locations of U.S. hostages held by foreign kidnappers.
But the report, conducted for the CIA by the independent American Institutes for Research, did much more than confirm the existence of the highly classified program. It declared that the psychic-spy operation, code-named Star Gate, had been a bust. Yes, the CIA researchers had validated some Star Gate trials, finding that “hits occur more often than chance” and that “something beyond odd statistical hiccups is taking place.” But the report declared that ESP was next to worthless for military use because the tips provided are too “vague and ambiguous” to produce actionable intelligence.
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(02-17-2016, 01:13 PM)GMDino Wrote: http://www.newsweek.com/2015/11/20/meet-former-pentagon-scientist-who-says-psychics-can-help-american-spies-393004.html
"The Men Who Stare At Goats"
Seriously, that's what the movie is about, what you posted.
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(02-17-2016, 01:23 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: "The Men Who Stare At Goats"
Seriously, that's what the movie is about, what you posted.
Ah, that's right!
Forgot about the movie but remembered the event actually happening. Thanks!
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(02-17-2016, 12:55 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Do you think they are packing a couple of d10's, for saving throws ?
If they are I'm just preparing a shit ton of magic missiles.
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After Hogwarts, I believe Harry Potter became a magic police officer.
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(02-17-2016, 02:59 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: After Hogwarts, I believe Harry Potter became a magic police officer.
The word you're looking for is Auror.
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(02-17-2016, 01:46 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: If they are I'm just preparing a shit ton of magic missiles.
FoD..
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(02-17-2016, 02:59 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: After Hogwarts, I believe Harry Potter became a magic police officer.
Fun fact...Harry Potter is banned from entering Saudi Arabia.
Another fun fact.. I broke up with a girl once who was reborn Christian because she refused to go see one of the Harry Potter movies with me as she believed it promoted sorcery. My jaw dropped, and dropped her within a week after dating her for 6 months. Just freakin nuts.
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(02-17-2016, 12:55 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Do you think they are packing a couple of d10's, for saving throws ?
I haven't played 2nd edition since high school, but I'm pretty sure saving throws were always done with a d20.
(02-17-2016, 01:46 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: If they are I'm just preparing a shit ton of magic missiles.
Because there is no saving throw against a Magic Missile spell? Clever!
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(02-17-2016, 05:49 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Because there is no saving throw against a Magic Missile spell? Clever!
Never as fun once it's explained.
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(02-17-2016, 06:04 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Never as fun once it's explained.
Ahh come on, I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page. Plus, I haven't DnDed for a while. Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!
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(02-17-2016, 12:55 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Do you think they are packing a couple of d10's, for saving throws ?
(02-17-2016, 01:46 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: If they are I'm just preparing a shit ton of magic missiles.
(02-17-2016, 03:25 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The word you're looking for is Auror.
(02-17-2016, 03:36 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: FoD..
(02-17-2016, 04:01 PM)Sovereign Nation Wrote: Just have your white mage cast Reflect.
(02-17-2016, 05:49 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I haven't played 2nd edition since high school, but I'm pretty sure saving throws were always done with a d20.
Because there is no saving throw against a Magic Missile spell? Clever!
(02-17-2016, 06:04 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Never as fun once it's explained.
(02-17-2016, 06:19 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Ahh come on, I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page. Plus, I haven't DnDed for a while. Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!
If I pass a Charisma check will you forgive me?
(02-17-2016, 06:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Damn, a nerd-feast broke out.
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