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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5964644" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think its worth noting that the 70's were a fairly wierd time and that D&D had, quite unintentionally, got itself mixed up in the wierdness of the time.  One of the first adopters of D&D I know 1st hand, old enough to have played OD&D, was a communal new age group where the communal leader was the DM.  Likewise, there weren't a lot of 'gaming stores' as we know them, and one of the few places I knew of in town that carried the AD&D hardbacks was an occult book store.  Another older gamer I knew of at the time was in college.  Her DM really did decide that anyone who played an M-U had to memorize and recite a suitably arcane verbal component in order to cast a spell in game, for example, fireball's verbal component was the charm of making from the movie Excalibur (you know, "Anáil nathrach orth bhais beth...").  Apparantly, they found nothing odd about going down to the local occult bookstore and buying Hermetic tradition spellbooks for inspiration and having these on the table along side the rule books, so that they were actually chanting 'spells' to cast the spells in the game.I also personally new a group slightly older than I was (I am fledgling DM in elementary school at the time) that heavily mixed D&D with drug use (that 70's show style, only with D&D).  I expect that there was a lot of 'experimental' gaming going on at the time.You can imagine how all this had to look to someone on the outside when the idea of a RPG was utterly alien and had to be explained in every precept.</blockquote>

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