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<blockquote data-quote="Rothe" data-source="post: 3852712" data-attributes="member: 39813">Those are all positives.&nbsp; I don't know if you can convince skeptical parents that are not your own, but will share what convinved my own religous parents that AD&amp;D was a good thing.&nbsp; This was back in the late 70s, and my parents had heard of the cult connection and saw the demons listed in the MM.&nbsp; But when they saw we were playing characters that were defeating the demons, rescueing the innocent, righting wrongs, doing good, giving vent to the desire to be heros when in the real world trying to be good can seem so pointless, they became convinced of its worth.&nbsp; It also didn't hurt that part of how we say and sold it was like playing in JRRTs world.&nbsp; JRRT being a devout Catholic helped lend an air of moral acceptability.&nbsp; I did't know this about JRRT as a teenager but I found out my parent's did.Funny thing is there are now religous themed counsole games out there that are more about glorified killing (sort of like GFA but for religous reasons) than the D&amp;D games we ran.Alternatively, Rock Band is coming out soon.. play that with her instead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rothe, post: 3852712, member: 39813"] Those are all positives. I don't know if you can convince skeptical parents that are not your own, but will share what convinved my own religous parents that AD&D was a good thing. This was back in the late 70s, and my parents had heard of the cult connection and saw the demons listed in the MM. But when they saw we were playing characters that were defeating the demons, rescueing the innocent, righting wrongs, doing good, giving vent to the desire to be heros when in the real world trying to be good can seem so pointless, they became convinced of its worth. It also didn't hurt that part of how we say and sold it was like playing in JRRTs world. JRRT being a devout Catholic helped lend an air of moral acceptability. I did't know this about JRRT as a teenager but I found out my parent's did. Funny thing is there are now religous themed counsole games out there that are more about glorified killing (sort of like GFA but for religous reasons) than the D&D games we ran. Alternatively, Rock Band is coming out soon.. play that with her instead. :) [/QUOTE]

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