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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6878152" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>When I was a kid, probably 7 or 8, so this would have been early 80s, I had a CCD teacher who talked about going to book burnings where they burned anything that was considered "dangerous" or pertaining to black magic or some nonsense. The teacher told me how they heard the screams of the demons coming out of the D&D books that they burned.</p><p></p><p>I remember getting in big trouble for disagreeing with the teacher. I said he must be lying about what he heard. I was sent to the office of whatever the equivalent of the principal was for CCD, and they called my parents to pick me up early. </p><p></p><p>My father was mad at me at first for arguing with a teacher, but once I explained the details, he told me I wasn't in trouble, and that I did the right thing. So glad to have had parents who supported my imagination as a kid, and whose faith wasn't so easily threatened by a game. We had a neighbor whose parents would not let him play D&D with us, which always seemed so odd to me.</p><p></p><p>I think the reason that this kind of stuff always comes up is because of how ridiculous it all is in retrospect. And I kind of expect it to always come up in general discussions about the hobby and its past, and I think it should. It's easily the most interesting thing about the hobby to a general audience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 6878152, member: 6785785"] When I was a kid, probably 7 or 8, so this would have been early 80s, I had a CCD teacher who talked about going to book burnings where they burned anything that was considered "dangerous" or pertaining to black magic or some nonsense. The teacher told me how they heard the screams of the demons coming out of the D&D books that they burned. I remember getting in big trouble for disagreeing with the teacher. I said he must be lying about what he heard. I was sent to the office of whatever the equivalent of the principal was for CCD, and they called my parents to pick me up early. My father was mad at me at first for arguing with a teacher, but once I explained the details, he told me I wasn't in trouble, and that I did the right thing. So glad to have had parents who supported my imagination as a kid, and whose faith wasn't so easily threatened by a game. We had a neighbor whose parents would not let him play D&D with us, which always seemed so odd to me. I think the reason that this kind of stuff always comes up is because of how ridiculous it all is in retrospect. And I kind of expect it to always come up in general discussions about the hobby and its past, and I think it should. It's easily the most interesting thing about the hobby to a general audience. [/QUOTE]
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