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Mannahnin reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I explicitly frame my campaign starts such that the characters generally already know each other and have been working together for a... -
Mannahnin reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Hiring New Lead Designer and Head of Game Ecosystem for D&D with Like.
Oh definitely. The trouble is they've had people whose job was to coordinate these things before, just with different job titles...
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Mannahnin reacted to cavalier973's post in the thread OD&D Feb 16th: Holmes Basic Day (Anniversary of J. Eric Holmes' Birthday) with Like.
“Remember that this is a Holmes thread, and Holmes omits morale rules (despite mentioning morale in the Bless spell description and in...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all?.Famed author and RPG designer Mike Stackpole corresponded with Sellers as part of his Pulling research and expose. There are some more...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
Going into the 70s, there was a ton of fantasy in the air. It translated to fiction, naturally. But also art and music. The world was...
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Mannahnin reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
D&D was a victim of the Satanic panic but, as the OP notes, the main effects came in the later 1980s. There's some other factors at...
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Mannahnin reacted to Cordwainer Fish's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
Meet the new blood libel, same as the old blood libel.
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Mannahnin reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
For obvious reasons, we tend to focus on D&D when it comes to the Satanic Panic around here, but RPGs were just a tiny part of the...
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Mannahnin reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
The 1980s? I saw a new video the other day about a certain group cannibalizing the unborn in secret rituals. No millennium, century...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
At the time, you could flip a coin between blaming heavy metal or D&D. Or have it land on its edge and blame both.
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Mannahnin reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
I'm not sure it would have been the easiest target, but I'm pretty certain it's one she didn't really understand or was pretty far...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
In his book The Dungeon Master, William Dear does sort-of recant. But by then, four years after James Dallas Eggbert III died by...
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Mannahnin reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
The combination of tragedy, sympathy, fear, and advocacy in spite of data is a powerful cocktail.
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Mannahnin reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
My sympathy hasn't increased for her, it has decreased. I have two girls - one of whom grappled pretty hard with suicide ideation a few...
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Mannahnin reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all? with Like.
I've made Pulling the butt of some jokes in the past, but as I've gotten older I started feeling more sympathy for her. To lose a child...