Moms who banned DnD

[S'mon]

My mother once ripped up my copy of Judge Dredd The RPG

My mother hated them as a distraction from work. As an atheist I don't think she'd care about the Satanism thing.

 

[mythago]

I hate to break it to you, but TV and movies do not necessarily represent real life.

I was around in the '80s, so I remember what they were like outside the theater. Thanks anyway.

Also remember that it's a damn big world, and there are all kinds of people in it.

Yes. Which is why generalizations about how things were so much sweeter and more innocent Back Then, unlike the hard-edged, cynical, greedy Nowadays, are doofy.

'80s fashions? Let me whisper two words to you: shoulder pads.

 

[CrusaderX]

All in all, I've experienced zero intolerance in regards to my being a gamer from those who aren't.

Conversely, I've experienced ample intolerance from gamers about other things about me, but that's for another thread.

This has absolutely been my experience as well. I've encounted quite a bit of close-minded intolerance from gamers about my religious beliefs. I've encountered no negative reaction whatsoever from those in my Church community in regards to RPGs.

My very intelligent and very devout Catholic mom bought me the D&D Basic set (purple box) when I was a kid. My family is very involved in our local parish community, and I've honestly never met anyone who had a bad thing to say about the game.

 

[pogre]

A modern anti-D&D article. Read and enjoy.

http://www.chick.com/articles/frpg.asp

and my favorite line from the article

That is all well and good. But it [D&D] will also take you to hell faster than a greased demon on roller skates.

Very tempting to change sig

 

[med stud]

My mother and father was just happy that I had a creative hobby and learned a lot when playing role playing games. Two of my friends' mothers fell for the Satanic thing about role playing games, but after a while they saw their mistake.

I think that much of this resistance would end if the scared parents actually read a PHB or DMG and saw that it is just a game, and the only thing to be held against it is that its slightly goofy.

 

[mythago]

Someone less lazy than I ought to link to the "Dork Tower" cartoon where John, heading down to Pegasaurus games, finds a bunch of people prostesting Pokémon cards as Satanic and evil and bad for children. He asks them if they're protesting D&D, and they laugh at him. "Those are so '80s! Role-playing games! Puh-leaze!"

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

A modern anti-D&D article. Read and enjoy.

http://www.chick.com/articles/frpg.asp

I read this about 1/3 of the way through and just could not even consider the authors opinion seriously enough to read on. I forwarded this to my mom who read it and responded by saying , "This writer sounds like they have a 'few screws loose' ".

There you have it folks. Straight from Djeta's mom.

 

[Kanegrundar]

The only trouble I had from playing D&D was from my father, who forbid me to play it at all. When I finally went ahead a bought a few books anyway, he wasn't real happy about it, but never really said much more than talk about how I'm wasting my money. After a few years went by, he never said anything about it. Now I'm 26, and have had a couple offers to write game books, he looks at it in a totally different light.

Kane

 

[Stormfalcon]

A modern anti-D&D article. Read and enjoy.

http://www.chick.com/articles/frpg.asp

Lovely. It's just wonderful that there are people like this that are still around to make more moderate Christians such as myself look like idiots. The problem is that he's so wrapped up in being holy and seperate from the world that he forgets that he's in the world in the first place. He also refuses to seperate fantasy from reality. It's not an inability to, it's a flat-out refusal to. Even when people point out how flawed his sources are, he still clings to the arguments put forth by those sources. On top of that, he dismisses perfectly good research and arguments on the grounds that they weren't from a "Godly" worldview.

Sorry, but as a Christian, I cannot take his arguments seriously, and it shames me to be associated with him merely because he worships the same God, at least on face value. I'm a Christian, I play games, and I see nothing wrong with it whatsoever.

 

[Olive]

Like Joshua Dyer and a few others, my parents worried about my obsessiveness much more than any satanic impact of the game. But that isn't surprising, given my parents solid agnosticism, and the fact that the DnD is satanic thing is much more a issue in the US than it ever was in New Zealand.