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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet-7" data-source="post: 8128820" data-attributes="member: 7025282">Earlier I asked about the timing of this because my memory was that the sh*t had mostly blown over by high school for me (late 80s).I first played with older kids by age 7.  My Mom was not entirely pleased when she heard the DM narrate a native getting cut in half.  But whatever, I was little.we played more after that with my actual  peers.  All was relatively well until a friend’s mother fed my mother a lot of fear about heavy metal and D&D.my first vinyl record was a Kiss record and it too was suspect (face palm).so I started hiding d and d from my mother.  It sucked.  It was like a drug habit!  My family has a religious faith but we are also all educated.  It was a weird tension.fast forward to the late 80s and I let her know my dark secret.  My character was killing monsters and saving people all along.  Not only that, but all my lifelong friends she loved were in on the debauchery.  We had a good laugh about the hysteria.  And of course then I started buying up heavy metal shirts as it should have been the whole time.it’s wild that it happened.  I am in a position to understand both sides of the issue since my foot was in both cultures and still is to an extent.it caused me a lot of grief during the time. But I would also say that movement was damaging to some faith communities. I grew up believing that many of my guitar heroes and proponents of D&D were theistic Satanists with bad intentions. How confusing for a kid! Unfortunate.And many years later I read about Gygax and his background and have kept up with a lot of the musicians in question and it’s ironic to see how far off the insanity really was.it’s embarrassing to see how many good intentioned folks let the hysteria effect their beliefs.  But it is also hubris to think this cannot happen again in another form.play on!  I cannot wait to play again and want to get my kids involved further.  Yes, I will also teach them my faith and values too which are not at cross purposes with the wonderful game of course.my six year old is also awaiting his first heavy metal show.  Post COVID it’s going down and I will buy him a concert shirt too(, you can rest assured.his first character ‘Halk’ (I got him to change his name from hulk) is a greenish half orc who was raised by and protects halflings.  He was splitting some skulls out of the gate, as it should be.and at six he already knows this just pretend and we don’t hit people with hammers...</blockquote>

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