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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 5779722" data-attributes="member: 775">While I certainly see the appeal of making D&D seem like an object of devil-worship (increased sales!), I do see some downsides. In fact, I've experienced some of those downsides growing up, and this was long after the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s. When my best friend's parents found out that he played D&D, they rounded up the family for an intervention. They took him and all of his books to somewhere in the country. While the burned his books, they prayed for his soul. And then anytime his parents even thought he was hanging out at my place, they would rally the family and surround the apartment building where I lived until he came out. One day they waited for four hours until they discovered they he was at another friend's place. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Speaking of which, when the grandmother of that friend passed away and the grandmother was mourning, my best friend's mother went to visit. The grandmother confessed to my friend's mom that she could still "feel" her late husband's presence in the house. My best friend's told the grandmother the her husband's spirit was still around because her grandson played D&D. And so, the grandson (the other friend) had to throw all his D&D/RPG books away--which included the classic boardgame HeroQuest.So basically I lost two players--and almost two friends because of a couple parents going ballistic about D&D.</blockquote>

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