How many were abused due to their love of D&D, RPGs, and related items when they were young?

[aramis erak]

I thought that the nazis burning books would've made this method less popular with parents, but here we are. I never thought about the psychological aspect of being forced to burn your own belongings, thats interesting!

Ask anyone who survived the process... I asked a couple former soldiers of the third reich. And lived through the era of D&D book burning in the US. The kids who didn't have to put theirs in themselves were much more likely to rebuy. But many fantasy classics got burned alongside... L Frank Baum's Oz series. JRRT's Middle Earth. David Eddings' Wheel of Time. Robert Asprin's Myth series.
And more recently... Jerry Prevo held a burning in 2012... D&D, Palladium, and Harry Potter were his primary targets, but all fantasy novels and bodice rippers were valid targets according to a friend whose younger sibling handed off the "offending books" until they could move out.

 

[pawsplay]

My mom took away my D&D books when I was 12. Then she overheard us playing TMNT with a kidnapping scenario, and took those away, too. She told me she burned them. In reality, she just hid them.

When I was 13, I did some work in stepdad's shop for which I was paid. I was told I could spend the money on whatever I wanted. I went to the mall and bought the new GURPS edition. When I came home, my mom was beaming, and she asked me what I bought. I showed her, and her face dropped. I said, "You said I could spend it on whatever I wanted."

And that was finally the end of the anti-rpg situation right in the middle of my best RPG-playing years. I never quite forgave my mom for letting me think she burned my books.