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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PHATsakk43" data-source="post: 9671116" data-attributes="member: 7041071">I can attest that D&D was absolutely equated with Satanism when I was getting into the game in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I hid my copy of B/X Basic books with their covers torn off in folders with my Playboy stash, and was actually far more afraid of my guardians finding D&D stuff than porn. I knew kids who were beaten severely by their parents for being involved in “devil worship” for playing games.As a then Christian, it caused me personally a lot of guilt and anxiety for playing simply because I did assume that there really was something to the assertions. Among my friends, we were actually afraid to play with any AD&D stuff, as we assumed the “Advanced” part was where you made your pact with Satan. We didn’t get over that fear until around 1993 or so when one of us got DMGR3 Arms & Equipment guide, which after looking through sort of convinced us that, no, “Advanced” just meant more options instead of selling one’s soul.You really have to remember that there wasn’t any way to discuss the realities of things except word-of-mouth back then. Or maybe if you happened to see something on TV or in a newspaper or magazine. Information was much harder to find, especially on niche topics.</blockquote>