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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 1433645" data-attributes="member: 16814">I live in the deep south.&nbsp; People here are very aware of tradition.&nbsp; So much so the the '70s &amp; '80s myth that D&amp;D is santanic still holds a good bit of sway.&nbsp; They heard it and noone said otherwise at the time, so it must be true.That said, I work in a hobby shop where we have a small assortment of gaming material, but most of the store is traditional hobbies.&nbsp; Most of our customers don't even know we carring gaming stuff (we don't hide it, but they usually don't even look around outside of thier hobby interest).&nbsp; I usually don't bring up my gaming unless directly asked, but there are occasions where I have to talk to a customer about his/her gaming selection in front of one of my nongamer customers.&nbsp; I don't hesitate to do so, but I have had some interesting reactions to this.&nbsp; Very few are interest, most are disdain or, in one occasion, horror that we would deal with that stuff. I put other on the poll, as I mostly fall in the don't dicuss unless asked category, but at work I don't have that luxury.&nbsp; I am not embarassed by my hobby, and I usually point out to anyone who says anything negative about it that it is just as valid as putting 100+ hours into a wooden ship model or $1000+ into a R/C car.&nbsp; That usually works. <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="Ovinomancer, post: 1433645, member: 16814"] I live in the deep south. People here are very aware of tradition. So much so the the '70s & '80s myth that D&D is santanic still holds a good bit of sway. They heard it and noone said otherwise at the time, so it must be true. That said, I work in a hobby shop where we have a small assortment of gaming material, but most of the store is traditional hobbies. Most of our customers don't even know we carring gaming stuff (we don't hide it, but they usually don't even look around outside of thier hobby interest). I usually don't bring up my gaming unless directly asked, but there are occasions where I have to talk to a customer about his/her gaming selection in front of one of my nongamer customers. I don't hesitate to do so, but I have had some interesting reactions to this. Very few are interest, most are disdain or, in one occasion, horror that we would deal with that stuff. I put other on the poll, as I mostly fall in the don't dicuss unless asked category, but at work I don't have that luxury. I am not embarassed by my hobby, and I usually point out to anyone who says anything negative about it that it is just as valid as putting 100+ hours into a wooden ship model or $1000+ into a R/C car. That usually works. :) [/QUOTE]

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