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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CharlesRyan" data-source="post: 5562594" data-attributes="member: 5265">Back in 2004, when I was the Brand Manager for D&D, we conducted a huge PR campaign around the game's 30th anniversary. It was the first year in many that D&D had been given a real marketing budget, and it was the biggest the brand had had in--well, possibly ever. Certainly in the modern era.As I said, PR was a major part of it, and the year spawned scores and scores of newspaper, magazine, and TV spots around D&D's 30th. I personally was interviewed dozens of times by journalists.A big part of the PR talking plan was countering the negative stereotypes of D&D--in particular, the satanic angle. Everyone slated to be interviewed was thoroughly prepared to fend off that one.You know how many times it came up, over something like 60 or so interviews I gave? Exactly zero.No, I lie: Occasionally, the interviewer would say something like, "Do you remember back in the 80s, when some people thought D&D was satanic? Ha ha! Do you ever get that anymore?" The answer to which, truthfully, was "Not really."The moral to the story? Yeah, there are still people out there who think D&D is satanic. But their numbers have been reduced to the same looney fringe that burns Harry Potter books. I feel sorry for anyone who runs afoul of them, but overall they're not really a factor any more.</blockquote>