Moms who banned DnD

I was 16 and I loaned about $300-$400 dolars worth of stuff to my cousin, he was 14 and my aunt was a newly reborn pentecostal.
She snapped up my stuff in a heart beat and burned it all, even the crayon pip marked dice that I had.
It's 16 years later and we still dont speak.
The funny part is that my cousin still didnt turn out to be what she wanted, and went on to be a head banging beer guzzling death metal maniac.
 

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Well, I'm only 23 nowadays so I wasn't around for the worst of the ant D&D mania. In 92 or so I was reading every book I could get my hands on and came across the Forgotten Realms section in the local bookstore. I looked around and found honest to goodness DnD Forgotten Realms stuff and got interested in it. I bought some stuff one day, and brought it home. My Dad, who is generally the most open minded and tolerant person in the world, made me throw it away because he had heard that people commited suicide and worshipped the devil after playing it. I was shocked, but since he hadn't ever really told me "No" regarding a pasttime before I just gave in and went back to reading the books. (And playing Heroquest, funny that it wasn't a problem)

When I turned 16 I was out driving and saw the local gaming store. I decided to stop in and see if they had DnD games there, so that I could learn the rules and get in on a game or two. When I opened the door a Purple cloud rolled out onto the street, and I was face to face with some of the most motley looking people I had ever seen.

Turns out they were nice enough, but not the kind of people I wanted to be assosciated with, not due to the DnD, but other, more questionable, hobbies. I enjoyed the game though, and when 3rd Edition came out my brother and I bought up all of the books and started our own campaigns, with me DMing in the FR and him in Greyhawk. We hid it from Mom and Dad until recently. Seems that now, they don't care what we do since were both out of High School and Im out of college and in Grad school. Ahh parents.


Kradge
 

I do have to say one thing, based on all these stories... ANYONE who destroys another's property and doesn't recompense them for it needs to have a long hard look at themselves... :)
 

Its threads like these that make me realize how much my mother was a good influence on me. For the most part she did not mind what I spent my money on. It was mine though the labours of my work. She did not mind that I gamed at all. I personaly did not care for DnD because I like Melee, Wizard, and The Fantasy Trip a lot more.

In fact she commented one day about my uncle, who was conservitive christain, he played RPGs but not DnD since it was "evil." My mother said that was a very foolish idea since it is all just a game.

-The Luddite
 

My parents, particularly my dad, had a bit of that lingering 80's-era propaganda in the back of their minds when I first started getting into Magic, and then D&D, and they said as much. Thankfully, they aren't mentally unstable nutbars, and realized they hadn't raised one either, so they left me to my own good judgement. Not the greatest idea, in retrospect, as I really should be studying for my Classical Mechanics final right now... but hey, whatcha gonna do?

None of my friends' parents had any problems with it either, to the best of my knowledge. I know one of them came from a very strongly Christian upbringing, her first set of dice previously belonged to her dad. :)
 

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