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<blockquote data-quote="Draksila" data-source="post: 4452114" data-attributes="member: 31376"><p>I envy people who can say this with a straight face. I'm a military brat who has lived in the Bible belt since my father left the Air Force; I've seen both sides of the equation on this subject. When we were living on bases among other military types, hobbies were a binding force. When you don't know from year to year if your friends are still going to be living nearby, you learn to make friends with anyone with similar interests and a lack of sociopathic behavior; therefore, D&D was a foundation for new friendships as much as poker or bowling or pool. There was no stigma attached to it, and it was seen as a valid pasttime.</p><p> </p><p>Then we moved to rural North Carolina. There was one gaming shop nearby, branched off from a nearby comic shop. The comic shop did fine, aside from its stigma as a nerd haven. The gaming shop, however, had groups of Southern baptists and born-again Christians that would purposefully loiter in front of it and try to block people from going into the store. The police wouldn't do anything about it, since their attitude seemed to range from one of mild amusement at the problem to fully supporting the religious nuts. While our high school librarians and principal seemed okay with allowing the small group of gamers to gather in the library on breaks, our members were harassed by the rest of the school population and guaranteed an outcast status until they gave up being seen there. Parents would write to the school and the school board concerned about 'Satanic clubs' being allowed on school grounds. Mind you, this was as recent as the early nineties.</p><p> </p><p>The LARP groups had a different problem altogether. The locals were always calling the cops with noise complaints and making accusations of drug and weapons possession, so most sessions had to deal with the cops at least once a night. I never played in the LARPs, though, so all of those stories come second-hand.</p><p> </p><p>So, yeah, there are a lot of us who feel that we have to hide our love of the hobby in order to protect ourselves. It's not dishonest; it's survival.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Draksila, post: 4452114, member: 31376"] I envy people who can say this with a straight face. I'm a military brat who has lived in the Bible belt since my father left the Air Force; I've seen both sides of the equation on this subject. When we were living on bases among other military types, hobbies were a binding force. When you don't know from year to year if your friends are still going to be living nearby, you learn to make friends with anyone with similar interests and a lack of sociopathic behavior; therefore, D&D was a foundation for new friendships as much as poker or bowling or pool. There was no stigma attached to it, and it was seen as a valid pasttime. Then we moved to rural North Carolina. There was one gaming shop nearby, branched off from a nearby comic shop. The comic shop did fine, aside from its stigma as a nerd haven. The gaming shop, however, had groups of Southern baptists and born-again Christians that would purposefully loiter in front of it and try to block people from going into the store. The police wouldn't do anything about it, since their attitude seemed to range from one of mild amusement at the problem to fully supporting the religious nuts. While our high school librarians and principal seemed okay with allowing the small group of gamers to gather in the library on breaks, our members were harassed by the rest of the school population and guaranteed an outcast status until they gave up being seen there. Parents would write to the school and the school board concerned about 'Satanic clubs' being allowed on school grounds. Mind you, this was as recent as the early nineties. The LARP groups had a different problem altogether. The locals were always calling the cops with noise complaints and making accusations of drug and weapons possession, so most sessions had to deal with the cops at least once a night. I never played in the LARPs, though, so all of those stories come second-hand. So, yeah, there are a lot of us who feel that we have to hide our love of the hobby in order to protect ourselves. It's not dishonest; it's survival. [/QUOTE]
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