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RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: The Satanic Panic Comes to School
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<blockquote data-quote="Osgood" data-source="post: 8743567" data-attributes="member: 32792"><p>Circa 1988 in Columbus, OH, I had just gotten into basic D&D. One day I was plotting out my own dungeon, so I has a notebook, some graph paper, and just about every book I owned--the basic and expert rules I think at the point--sprawled across the coffee table. My uncle and his then girlfriend (now wife) show up to talk to my mother, probably to invite her to their evangelical church (which we'd been to a couple of times).</p><p></p><p>When they saw what I was working on, they freaked the F out. Full blown panic. After a whispered conversation between them, soon-to-be aunt sat down with the sugary "hey bud, whatcha doin" tone that suggested she though I was eight rather than in the last weeks of my freshman year in high school, while my uncle stormed to the kitchen to find my mom and whisper-shout about "SATAN." My mother was pretty clueless about the whole thing, she got upset, started crying because she bought it, and before long I was getting the full sermon.</p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure he only reason my books weren't burned on the spot was a quick thinking lie that the books were borrowed, and if they burned them, they'd have to deal with my friend's parents. Over the next few weeks Mom got bombarded with pamphlets--including the famous Dark Dungeons tract. She was inclined to believe a lot of it, but I managed to convince her to read some of and actual D&D book, to see what it really was. She wasn't crazy about the cleric, because they worshiped gods, plural--but she liked the movie Clash of the Titans, so I held that up as the analog. She never loved my playing D&D, and I did my reading and playing in my room, but she never burned my book. Though, until the day she died, she called it "Demons & Devils" as in, "you're <em>still </em>playing that Demons & Devils game?"</p><p></p><p>Sadly, I had a situation at work in maybe 2005ish where I was called into HR for reading a Dungeon magazine in the cafeteria. Someone had complained, thinking it a porny kind of dungeon, and I explained it was a D&D magazine--and was told that was even "worse." That "occult" materials were inappropriate for the workplace, especially for a member of the management team. I asked for clarification, and the HR person said that D&D is "Satanic" in a very matter-of-fact way. I worked with onboarding new hires, so I was very familiar with our policies, and I smiled and asked if the company was now restricting reading religious materials in the cafeteria during breaktimes, and how that would affect the bible study group or they just targeting specific religions, and if so could I get a list of which ones. She got nervous, called in her boss, who it turned out had played D&D when he was in college and was pleasantly surprised to learn the game was still going strong. He sent me on my way, but stuck around to talk with her... oh, to have a scrying spell!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Osgood, post: 8743567, member: 32792"] Circa 1988 in Columbus, OH, I had just gotten into basic D&D. One day I was plotting out my own dungeon, so I has a notebook, some graph paper, and just about every book I owned--the basic and expert rules I think at the point--sprawled across the coffee table. My uncle and his then girlfriend (now wife) show up to talk to my mother, probably to invite her to their evangelical church (which we'd been to a couple of times). When they saw what I was working on, they freaked the F out. Full blown panic. After a whispered conversation between them, soon-to-be aunt sat down with the sugary "hey bud, whatcha doin" tone that suggested she though I was eight rather than in the last weeks of my freshman year in high school, while my uncle stormed to the kitchen to find my mom and whisper-shout about "SATAN." My mother was pretty clueless about the whole thing, she got upset, started crying because she bought it, and before long I was getting the full sermon. I'm pretty sure he only reason my books weren't burned on the spot was a quick thinking lie that the books were borrowed, and if they burned them, they'd have to deal with my friend's parents. Over the next few weeks Mom got bombarded with pamphlets--including the famous Dark Dungeons tract. She was inclined to believe a lot of it, but I managed to convince her to read some of and actual D&D book, to see what it really was. She wasn't crazy about the cleric, because they worshiped gods, plural--but she liked the movie Clash of the Titans, so I held that up as the analog. She never loved my playing D&D, and I did my reading and playing in my room, but she never burned my book. Though, until the day she died, she called it "Demons & Devils" as in, "you're [I]still [/I]playing that Demons & Devils game?" Sadly, I had a situation at work in maybe 2005ish where I was called into HR for reading a Dungeon magazine in the cafeteria. Someone had complained, thinking it a porny kind of dungeon, and I explained it was a D&D magazine--and was told that was even "worse." That "occult" materials were inappropriate for the workplace, especially for a member of the management team. I asked for clarification, and the HR person said that D&D is "Satanic" in a very matter-of-fact way. I worked with onboarding new hires, so I was very familiar with our policies, and I smiled and asked if the company was now restricting reading religious materials in the cafeteria during breaktimes, and how that would affect the bible study group or they just targeting specific religions, and if so could I get a list of which ones. She got nervous, called in her boss, who it turned out had played D&D when he was in college and was pleasantly surprised to learn the game was still going strong. He sent me on my way, but stuck around to talk with her... oh, to have a scrying spell! [/QUOTE]
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