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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 2555345" data-attributes="member: 6616">Here in Sweden, there are three answers to that question:1. RPGs sold way less after the mid-80's boom, so shelf space was allocated to stuff that sold.2. Kult. The horror RPG created a storm of protests from the christian fundamentalists, and sensationalist media took the bait and milked it for what it was worth. People working with Kult was even named in the swedish Police' internal magazine, in an article about the perils of gaming (it's a strange experience being singled out as a threat to the youths of the country, believe me).3. A couple of severely disturbed people managed to get the trust of an advisory board that controlled what one of the largest department chains stocked (the couple basically wrote a book saying that all rpg:ers were part of a paramilitary organisation that secretly trained for a violent revoltution). They were later debunked, and later even ridiculed, but for a while enjoyed authority among child psychologists, and the upper echelons of the police, and some politician or other. These three factors ran rpg's out of the department stores here in Sweden. It's a funny world, aint it?/M</blockquote>