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<blockquote data-quote="crashtestdummy" data-source="post: 6879247" data-attributes="member: 6803354">Back in the early 80s, I was a member of the Melbourne University Dungeons and Dragons Association (MUDDA), a registered student group at the university. A number of us used to play at lunchtimes or in the afternoons in the union building, taking over half of one of the lounges. There wasn't any problems as far as I recall. MUDDA even organised a successful convention at the university (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanacon" target="_blank">Arcanacon</a> is still a regular roleplaying event, more than 30 years later).As far as 'hysteria' is concerned, the only such item I can remember was a number of members sharing an American newspaper article they'd found about how parents were told if their sons ever started levitating after playing DnD that they should call their local minister/pastor/priest as soon as possible. The general response amongst my friends was that advice was poor -- they should be calling the newspapers and television stations, instead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="crashtestdummy, post: 6879247, member: 6803354"] Back in the early 80s, I was a member of the Melbourne University Dungeons and Dragons Association (MUDDA), a registered student group at the university. A number of us used to play at lunchtimes or in the afternoons in the union building, taking over half of one of the lounges. There wasn't any problems as far as I recall. MUDDA even organised a successful convention at the university ([URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanacon"]Arcanacon[/URL] is still a regular roleplaying event, more than 30 years later). As far as 'hysteria' is concerned, the only such item I can remember was a number of members sharing an American newspaper article they'd found about how parents were told if their sons ever started levitating after playing DnD that they should call their local minister/pastor/priest as soon as possible. The general response amongst my friends was that advice was poor -- they should be calling the newspapers and television stations, instead. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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