I haven't seen many posts about this period of RPG's history.
I'm sure than some of you guys were already players at that time.
So how did it felt ? the fact that your innocent hobby could get you into serious troubles just because some idiots claimed it was satanic ?
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It actually never happened. It was liberal media trolling people into believing conservatives are retards yet again. Only Chick and three other assholes ever gave a quantum of a fuck about rpgs.
Yeah, it mostly wasn't a thing. Some churches encouraged their members to confiscate and destroy the books where they could find them, but it was mostly rumors. Someone heard that a someone's cousin's friend went crazy playing D&D. Nobody ever had any proof.
>T. People not from the Bible belt or religious houses
No, plenty of otherwise very reasonable people believed that d&d, magic the gathering, and other assorted autism was literally the work of the devil. Has everyone forgotten the harry Potter protests, or am I just that old?
No but then I'm probably just as old.
No, they didn't.
Nobody cares about this meme or about how butthurt you are your Mom requisited your dnd 3,5 hand book when you were ten because you weren't doing your homework. It's called growing up not mass hysteria.
I've seen several. They generally revolve around how shit or awesome someones parents were/are.
It must feel nice living in a world where you can believe that the majority of humans aren't sheep. Of course you're right when talking about one person. But a group of people can do some stupid and messed up shit.
I am not this user
But it does seem like you're a bit sheltered in your outlook
Also for the record I did great on school like 90% of the huge fucking nerds here so thanks for asking.
People just get dumb when rumors start to spread. There was a genuine moral outrage about D&D for a bit. Darkest dungeons was not tongue in cheek like you think it was
Granted it wasn't as bad as what comic books got, but it was there.
There was a fantastic book published last year called "Dangerous Games" by Joseph Laycock, and I strongly recommend it. It's the best summary anyone has ever done of the whole phenomenon. He goes over a lot of the old dramas, re-investigating the supposed suicides (James Egbert etc) and well as contextualizing it all so you can get a sensible angle on the whole thing. It was a fascinating read.
Because it's a historic artifact. here's the book B.A.D.D. published at the height of the panic. It makes for amusing reading today, but personally I find it really sad. A lot of kids supposedly killed by D&D were actually fucked over by the same shitty parents who were now literally demonizing the only thing they enjoyed.