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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5558924" data-attributes="member: 9037">Since RPGs didn't exist when I was under my parents roof I never had to deal with the situation. I had to deal with my mom going wacky when she found my really bad fanfic Trek stories I had written when I was about 13. Yes I admit I put myself in the story.She was convinced that I didn't know reality from fiction and thought Trek was real. So I had to see this clueless shrink and I finally got to stop going when I agreed to let her burn all my writing and the few Trek books and all my Robert Heinlein novels. When I started meeting other Trek and SF fans at cons I found out that a lot of them wrote fanfic. I still write some to this day though I have out grown the need to put myself in the story.I think she would have had the same reaction if I had been playing DnD.To be blunt my mom is crazy she was emotional and physically abusive to us kids especially me. I was a very withdrawn and moody child because of it and she looked for other factors then the real ones to blame.My son started playing TNMT as a kid and then went to Tunnels and Trolls. I had issues with his teachers over it who thought the games were dangerous because they blurred the line between reality and make believe. I had an open mind when I talked to them read the literature they presented and then calmly presented why I thought they were wrong in my son's case. In the end  it became a non issue. I don't like to judge parents if I don't have all the facts. I will say this if a parent really believes that playing DnD is a danger to their child's immortal soul then you can't really blame them for saying no you can't play this game. To them no matter how unreasonable we may feel about it it is the same as letting their child play in traffic. As a parent you have a duty to protect your child from dangers. That is what they are doing.</blockquote>

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