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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5241740" data-attributes="member: 19675">From my studies, its mainly an American phenomenon.Essentially, there were a couple of relatively highly publicized incidents in the USA in which people got lost in RPG worlds of their own- roughly the same % of the population that goes bonkers and thinks they're Jesus or Napoleon or that their Judas Priest records are telling them to kill people- and acted out.And along with people blaming Metal- both as outsiders looking for something to blame and those seeking to avoid responsibility- and the pop culture/pop news glorifying those claiming to be Satanists, it got blown out of proportion.  American evangelicals began to preach against RPGs, Metal and other influences in society as being the work of the Devil.Its commonly known as the Satanic Panic.Eventually, the FBI concluded it was mostly Urban Legends...but the stigma remains.</blockquote>