The Satanic Panic had an aftermath that lasted quite a while as well. It's funny to talk about this again, since the last time I did, I was booted off the forum I was frequenting for not referring to it as the "social phenomenon involving role playing games in the 80's". Heh.
But it was actually 1988 when I came home from the big library in Joliet to the tiny speck of a town I had moved to 50 miles south of Chicago, armed with a couple of 1e hardcovers and my next door neighbor looked at them aghast, pulled my mother aside and asked her if she knew what "those devil books were".
The next day Mom asks me if I'm worshipping the devil, and in my head I was thinking "not unless he can let me cast magic missile!". Man.
But it was actually 1988 when I came home from the big library in Joliet to the tiny speck of a town I had moved to 50 miles south of Chicago, armed with a couple of 1e hardcovers and my next door neighbor looked at them aghast, pulled my mother aside and asked her if she knew what "those devil books were".
The next day Mom asks me if I'm worshipping the devil, and in my head I was thinking "not unless he can let me cast magic missile!". Man.