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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melkor" data-source="post: 1116687" data-attributes="member: 10786">I almost forgot.....I mentioned that my dad was a non-denominational Christian pastor in my other thread...I forgot to mention that I went to a "Private" School up until my 8th grade year.One of the kids there played Basic D&D, and hand copied some of the rules for me so I could make up a character. We played a little during lunch in the cafeteria - when some of the teachers found out about it, the next year, the student handbook had banned D&D as something you couldn't bring to school...This was probably my 4th grade year.I think I was in 6th or 7th grade when MERP came out, and another buddy and I started bringing that to school and playing it....The Student Handbook was changed after that so that no "Board or Book Games" could be brought to school. Very crappy, but by then, we had memorized a lot of the rules, and written notes down on notebook paper, so we just played on, and snuck dice rolls under the table.My parents, as I said in my earlier thread, were a bit fanatical about their religious beliefs....They threw out a ton of my D&D stuff. My grandfather would take me to a local hobby store every other week, and let me buy whatever games or books I wanted (within reason)....My parents had told him not to buy me D&D books, but he let me buy anything that didn't look offensive in spite of that.Anyway, I was reading Dieties & Demigods at lunch one day when my PE Coach, who also taught World History, saw me. He said he was going to be teaching about a number of different Gods & religious beliefs during the semester and asked if he could borrow the book. He did, and he even made copies and handed out some of them to the class (mainly for pictures). I thought that he was a really cool guy.....The next thing I knew, he had called my dad for a Parent-Teacher conference and told him that he was "concerned" that I was playing that game - He showed my very religious dad pictures of all of the gods (I think some of them were even topless) from my very own copy of Dieties & Demigods.....Needless to say, the Hypocrisy of him doing that floored me....and I got in a lot of trouble....but oh well. All is well that ends well.....My parents finally realized that the games were good for my brain, and sometimes they actually kept me out of trouble.Cheers.</blockquote>

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