D&D accused of being satans game.

[Hussar]

My first DM was a minister. Take from that what you will.

I gotta admit, at least where I lived, people thought D&D was for dorks and nerds. Satanic? Naw. Not cool enough for that.

 

[Breschau of Livonia]

My first DM was a minister. Take from that what you will.

I gotta admit, at least where I lived, people thought D&D was for dorks and nerds. Satanic? Naw. Not cool enough for that.

Yeah I have to confess I kinda miss the D&D is Satanic issue. Made us sound scarier. Though it was mainly considered a nerd activity when I was in middle and high school in the 80s (in Connecticut). No one feared me unleashing Type VI Demons on them. Pity really. I tried so hard to summon them, especially after I got S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.

My parents gave me a hard time about D&D only when I wasted too much time with it that my grades suffered. They did that with other activities too. I think they were mainly happy that their kinda social misfit son was hanging out with other kids.

 

[Henry]

I actually look on Chick tracts with a little nostalgia now, kind of like the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or the end of the Iran Hostage Crisis, weirdly enough. Up to the last couple of pages it reads like a Saturday Night Live skit or something.

My favorite is when you get to the panel of Marcie hanging herself, and you read the fake Mystery Science Theater spoof of the comic:

"No Marcie, don't change the light bulb with your mouth!"

 

[Mercutio01]

funny, I've never come across anyone, christian or otherwise, who bought into this satans game business. Still, I never played in the 80s. I have had in my group a fundamentalist Christian, my wife follows the charismatic paths of Catholicism and so on. Yet they all put aside differences to pretend to be elves and kill the evil guy.

My old group actually had two guys in divinity school, both of whom are now ordained ministers. They both still play D&D. Sadly, they moved away from Boston when they finished, and the group disbanded.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I have never had to deal with this issue. When I was about to play one time(Not my first time, but it was when I was just starting), my mother told me not to get too "into it", but my Father said that she should not worry about it.

 

[M.L. Martin]

Please be careful with generalizations. I've had lots of devoutly religious people in my groups (and am one myself). If memory serves, one of the frequent contributors to Dragon in the 80s, Arthur C. Collins I believe, was a protestant minister. He did some rather neat revisions of 1e psionics.

More recently, James Wyatt, one of the lead designers on 4E, has a background as a Methodist minister.

 

[Orius]

We used to game with Satan.
Dude's a total rules-lawyer, and his PCs always have the same lame "outcast favored son" backstory.
Also, he never wanted to play the Cleric.

We ditched him.

Cheers, -- N

He showed up at our game after you ditched him. He was playing an Ur-Priest when I DM'd a TPK. He didn't take it well.

He also dropped into my game too, I had to kick him out because I got sick of him insisting that I let him use Asmodeus as his PC. Freakin' munchkin.

 

[Kinneus]

I vividly remember finding my step-brother's burned Magic: The Gathering cards in the woods behind my father's house. I can only imagine what he would've done if he'd found out about my latent interest in the evil D&D...
Thinking back on all those singed Ancestral Recalls and Mox Emeralds makes me want to cry.

 

[Dumnbunny]

Back in the early 80's, some relatives who pretty much live on a bible camp came to our home and told some bold-faced lies to my parents about D&D. I tried to argue against it, saying that I had read the books cover to cover and what they described just wasn't in there. My parents chose to believe the adult relatives over me, and threw out what was a very large collection of BD&D and 1e books, modules and Dragon magazine issues.

I was able to secretly fish the books out of the trash and hide them for the next couple years, adding to the collection. I would secretly play at school during lunch. In the end, though, it was discovered and I had to get rid of it once and for all.

I'm not proud of the fact that I'm still bitter after all these years, but there it is. I don't really blame my parents who acted in good faith on what they perceived as adult relatives warning them about a threatening activity their teenage son was involved in. They didn't know they were being lied to. My bitterness is toward the relatives who lied, and left me where I am today, spending large sums trying to rebuild my collection.

 

[rgard]

He also dropped into my game too, I had to kick him out because I got sick of him insisting that I let him use Asmodeus as his PC. Freakin' munchkin.

I'm detecting a trend here...

Nifft's game:
"outcast favored son" backstory.

In my game:
Ur-Priest

Your game:
Asmodeus

Right now he is probably DMing a game and playing his own characters as PC/NPCs.

The horror!