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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 5323046" data-attributes="member: 775">During the early 1990s, I got my dose of &quot;D&amp;D is Satanic&quot; from my best friend's christian parents. My own parents were only concerned about the amount of books I was buying: it was TSR's heyday of producing a lot of stuff that my early teenage brain thought was so cool. But my best friend had to hide what little AD&amp;D books he had--and this was 2nd Edition, when TSR &quot;grew up&quot; and got rid of a lot of the demonic/erotic artwork from their books. He had to keep things secret because he was afraid what his parents might do. One summer, my best friend's mom discovered his small collection of books and miniatures while &quot;cleaning&quot; his room. She immediately rounded up the family, gathered up the D&amp;D stuff, and took my friend out to an isolated spot outside of our town. They burned his books and miniatures in a ditch while they prayed for his soul. It emotionally scarred him, I swear. He tried to still play D&amp;D with myself and our friends. But if his parents even suspected he was over at my place, they would round up the family to come get him. One time, my friend wasn't even there. But his parents sat outside for an hour until his older brother drove up to tell them he was at another friend's place. This happened 3-4 times before he just quit. Unfortunately, I think these were symptoms of other things that were going in the family. My mom even considered adopting my friend because things had gotten so bad. Finally I confronted his parents and told them that I did not want to lose my best friend over a game. But it was only after I told them that I was getting rid of all my D&amp;D books that they would let him hang out with me again. Of course I didn't throw away my books, but I didn't like lying either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />At the time I felt that I saw the dark side of christianity and it drove me away from that belief system. Somewhere in becoming older (and hopefully wiser), I realized that not all christians behave this way. But I never want to be guilty of persecuting somebody over their belief systems... or over a game!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ulrick, post: 5323046, member: 775"] During the early 1990s, I got my dose of "D&D is Satanic" from my best friend's christian parents. My own parents were only concerned about the amount of books I was buying: it was TSR's heyday of producing a lot of stuff that my early teenage brain thought was so cool. But my best friend had to hide what little AD&D books he had--and this was 2nd Edition, when TSR "grew up" and got rid of a lot of the demonic/erotic artwork from their books. He had to keep things secret because he was afraid what his parents might do. One summer, my best friend's mom discovered his small collection of books and miniatures while "cleaning" his room. She immediately rounded up the family, gathered up the D&D stuff, and took my friend out to an isolated spot outside of our town. They burned his books and miniatures in a ditch while they prayed for his soul. It emotionally scarred him, I swear. He tried to still play D&D with myself and our friends. But if his parents even suspected he was over at my place, they would round up the family to come get him. One time, my friend wasn't even there. But his parents sat outside for an hour until his older brother drove up to tell them he was at another friend's place. This happened 3-4 times before he just quit. Unfortunately, I think these were symptoms of other things that were going in the family. My mom even considered adopting my friend because things had gotten so bad. Finally I confronted his parents and told them that I did not want to lose my best friend over a game. But it was only after I told them that I was getting rid of all my D&D books that they would let him hang out with me again. Of course I didn't throw away my books, but I didn't like lying either. :( At the time I felt that I saw the dark side of christianity and it drove me away from that belief system. Somewhere in becoming older (and hopefully wiser), I realized that not all christians behave this way. But I never want to be guilty of persecuting somebody over their belief systems... or over a [I]game![/I] [/QUOTE]

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