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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voobaha" data-source="post: 1112294" data-attributes="member: 2741">Isn't Salem, IL the town where they have a parade in celebration of a TV soap opera?  "Days of Our Lives Days" or something.  BTW, I've been to the Dairy Queen in Salem.  Small world, huh?I didn't have much trouble from my own family about D&D.  My dad's best friend from high school ran a hobby shop in western Kentucky.  He gave me a copy of the first Basic Set (the one with the dragon, wizard and fighter on the cover and module B1 inside).  He also gave me a copy of the original traveller (this would be about 1979-1980).I introduced both games to my circle of friends and we all got hooked on roleplaying, eventually buying the Hero system and Top Secret too.I lost one friend because his Mom (who was religious) bought the D&D is evil routine (she saw a Pat Robertson diatribe on the 700 club).  He was banned from playing and from hanging out with me.  This caused a problem because that year she had been a Den Mother in our local cub scout group.  The next year we got Pack Dad's so it didn't become an ongoing issue.Even worse, our middle school had a "co-curricular" program which lasted for a week.  Students got to take all sorts of alternative classes and workshops put on by teachers and parents.  D&D was one of them.  After a group of born-again-christian parents apparently protested D&D in school, I and another 6th grader were called into the school office to be interviewed by the Principal and Vice Principal.They asked us all about the game and borrowed our players' handbook and monster manuals for a day to study them.  Now, I was raised to trust adults in authority and believe that they always had my best interests at heart--to respect teachers and principals.  They returned our books, shut down the D&D program and banned it from the school.  I later learned that they'd succumbed from pressure put on the school board and didn't want to argue the issue.While I was never seriously persecuted by my family, the ignorance surrounding the "D&D is evil" controversey did affect my life.  It opened my eyes to the fact that grownups can be wrong; it made me want to stand up for myself more; and according to Gary Gygax, it made the sales of D&D skyrocket and made TSR a multi-million dollar company.I guess it wasn't all bad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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