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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 160437" data-attributes="member: 775">Where I grew up D&amp;D became evil the moment I introduced it to the son (my best friend) of an official church minister who had no church.&nbsp; He and his wife fervently tried to keep their son away from me once they discovered I got their son to play.They feared me, and they judged me evil...for playing a game.They grounded their son, forced him to burn his books...for playing a game.They would come over to my home, practically lay siege to it, if they thought their son was inside...playing a game.They claimed to Christian, perhaps they were, but I would never generalize Christian people based on what they did.&nbsp; I know how it feels to be judged like that.&nbsp; It hurts--especially to me as a teenager with low-esteem.Yes, it still angers me a little for what happened almost a eight years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; And yet I realize that they were fed the garbage the media cranked out about D&amp;D.&nbsp; In there own little fearful world, there were probably Dark Dungeons, Mazes and Monsters, And of course, dragons to claim their son.&nbsp; And each incident, be it Patricia Pulling's son, James Dallas Egbert III, or something as simple as LARPing, fed this fear.So, I how could I blame them? I couldn't, they chose to live in their own world of fear.&nbsp; And I think that's what happened when &quot;D&amp;D became evil!&quot; a lot of people became fearful of what they didn't understand, and chose to live in that fear.Ulrick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ulrick, post: 160437, member: 775"] Where I grew up D&D became evil the moment I introduced it to the son (my best friend) of an official church minister who had no church. He and his wife fervently tried to keep their son away from me once they discovered I got their son to play. They feared me, and they judged me evil...for playing a game. They grounded their son, forced him to burn his books...for playing a game. They would come over to my home, practically lay siege to it, if they thought their son was inside...playing a game. They claimed to Christian, perhaps they were, but I would never generalize Christian people based on what they did. I know how it feels to be judged like that. It hurts--especially to me as a teenager with low-esteem. Yes, it still angers me a little for what happened almost a eight years ago. And yet I realize that they were fed the garbage the media cranked out about D&D. In there own little fearful world, there [I]were[/I] probably Dark Dungeons, Mazes and Monsters, And of course, dragons to claim their son. And each incident, be it Patricia Pulling's son, James Dallas Egbert III, or something as simple as LARPing, fed this fear. So, I how could I blame them? I couldn't, they chose to live in their own world of fear. And I think that's what happened when "D&D became evil!" a lot of people became fearful of what they didn't understand, and chose to live in that fear. Ulrick [/QUOTE]

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