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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xaelvaen" data-source="post: 8007146" data-attributes="member: 6681906">Began playing in 89, so after the major religious problems with the game, but ironically the largest support for the game we found, came from the catholic household of my highschool best friend's parents.  They were devout catholic and allowed us to use their house for gaming, knowing full well the contents of the game.  His father would make interesting props for our games, while his mother would make dinner and snacks for us - they were truly wonderful, understanding people who grasped the difference between a game, and reality.They saw, on a regular basis, or at least overheard so to speak, how our actions would more often than not help us avoid conflict.  (The fact that monsters were outright brutal compared to our party's power level and we were downright scared of them half the time, was irrelevant - they just heard us trying to reason around slashing things to death all the time).As for the name change, I started with 2e and grew quite fond of the interesting names for demons and devils, so I still use them today, regardless of the system (when playing in a classic D&D type setting).  Nothing wrong with some extra flavor, even if it was invented for a marketing reason.</blockquote>