TO NEWBIE AND WOLFIX:
Welcome to the checkered history of Dungeons and Dragons, and RPG's in general.
This religious tract, while old, is an important reminder that in the early 1980's, there was a strong movement in the U.S. against the concept of role-playing games, due to fear that such games had morality-damaging lessons and ties to malicious occult groups that, in the end, didn't exist. Jack Chick's publications were one person's means of capitalizing on nagging doubts over something new, and unfounded fears of many parents and citizens that there was one, specific, demonstrable source that was trying to harm or brainwash their children.
20 years later, RPG's are far-more well-known than tracts of this nature, but they've become the equivalent among gamers of the childhood boogeyman. Those noises under the bed as a child we used to hear we can make fun of now as adults; Same with the anti-D&D paranoia of the 1980's - you'll find a lot of old-time gamers who know every word of "dark dungeons" the same way they know the Combat Matrix on Pages 74-75 of the 1st edition Dungeon Master's Guide.
It ain't pretty to look at, because you STILL have some fringe pockets who believe in the rumors, but it is worth a good laugh now and again, to see how accepted D&D is now versus then.
are you sure you should be saying that with your wife posting to this same site?
