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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8529344" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I think a lot of it depended on where you were and if you were in close contact with religious communities that were concerned about it. It also depended on the kind of church you attended and how tight knit the community around it was. I saw it a lot, and experienced it. It also wasn't strictly religious, RPGs were new, and as part of the satanic panic there was also this idea floating around that RPGs messed with your brain (think of Mazes and Monsters for example). So some of it was also that parents were just concerned about the unknown dangerous of a new activity. Plenty of people who bought into the satanic panic, weren't even religious. The Satanic Panic was a much broader panic outside gaming, over the idea that there were widespread Satanic cults ritually abusing children, committing murders, etc....and D&D fell into the orbit of that). It wasn't helped that you had the occasional high profile event like Nightstalker (a serial killer who was into Satanism). But if you were in a religious community this stuff was particularly pronounced. Keep in mind, there was concern over fantasy in general there. I remember at my church my father wanted to show the movie Willow and he couldn't because several people said it was Satanic. And I wasn't allowed to have RPG books for several years (my mom changed her mind and allowed them when I was in 7th grade----I had started playing in 3rd or 4th grade).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8529344, member: 85555"] I think a lot of it depended on where you were and if you were in close contact with religious communities that were concerned about it. It also depended on the kind of church you attended and how tight knit the community around it was. I saw it a lot, and experienced it. It also wasn't strictly religious, RPGs were new, and as part of the satanic panic there was also this idea floating around that RPGs messed with your brain (think of Mazes and Monsters for example). So some of it was also that parents were just concerned about the unknown dangerous of a new activity. Plenty of people who bought into the satanic panic, weren't even religious. The Satanic Panic was a much broader panic outside gaming, over the idea that there were widespread Satanic cults ritually abusing children, committing murders, etc....and D&D fell into the orbit of that). It wasn't helped that you had the occasional high profile event like Nightstalker (a serial killer who was into Satanism). But if you were in a religious community this stuff was particularly pronounced. Keep in mind, there was concern over fantasy in general there. I remember at my church my father wanted to show the movie Willow and he couldn't because several people said it was Satanic. And I wasn't allowed to have RPG books for several years (my mom changed her mind and allowed them when I was in 7th grade----I had started playing in 3rd or 4th grade). [/QUOTE]
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