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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hellbender" data-source="post: 456896" data-attributes="member: 795">To address a few posts:   Having a couple of other countries that are rabid against role playing games is not much of a comparison to the whole world. Sure, some countries are tougher, and some are more lenient. Many countries have freedom of speech, and in some places, it is even more free than here in the States. In my limited travel experiences, I have found that many of the counries I went to had a general lack of concern over rpgs. Clearly, I haven't been to Brazil.   I lived in those 80's. Book burning, PMRC. In retrospect, I see that my concerns were ungrounded for more than one reason. The book is really mellow, and so, there were book burnings, rpgs are still around, nothing happened. I have my old D&D books from that era, unsinged. Couple of family members think I will become some sort of deranged psycopath from playing rpgs, but it hasn't happened yet. Tipper Gore got her way and warning labels were slapped onto music released that contains offesive material. Although that is a pretty scary idea, it really hasn't stopped the music industry from pumping out music with offensive lyrics, and has not had the effect of curbing people from 'moral hoolaganism' to mindless conformity. But then, the 80's were a much wilder time.  I got away with much more as a teen than a teen would now. hellbender</blockquote>