Can you imagine the uproar if this had happened when we were kids? So glad to see it now!
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luthurian@reddit
I beat the Satanic Panic and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt
GlitteringCash69@reddit
I mean… there WAS blood on your dagger!
Taira_Mai@reddit
My Dad used to watch the Christian station out of Alburquerque - KNAT.
All lies and everything to the left of Nixon was "satanic" - so of course when I got into DnD and other tabletop games I was flirting with Satanism. But I was also in college so there wasn't much he could do.
Eventually he came around because most of my friends (who played dice games) were also in college.
If someone tried this back in the 1990's or late 1980's those Fundies would have blown their stack.
naazzttyy@reddit
Everyone in my party leveled up after we beat the Satanic Panic.
We all died badly in Tomb of Horrors, however.
Tim-oBedlam@reddit
oh man, Tomb of Horrors. Gary Gygax at his most sadistic.
My favorite story about Tomb of Horrors is a group of gamers at GenCon found an unorthodox way to beat the demi-lich (the almost unkillable end-boss in Tomb of Horrors), and Gary Gygax happened to be there, and the DM wanted a ruling from the OG Dungeon Master, and Gygax ruled that it worked.
oced2001@reddit
GeneralJavaholic@reddit
I went to high school with a girl whose brother (like 16, 17 years older than us) was one of the preachers who started all that crap. He was either the main guy or one of the main guys who "figured out" that playing the records backwards had all those hidden "evil messages." He died a few years ago and still was being lauded for all that in his funeral service.
charliefoxtrot9@reddit
The power of love (and nuclear flame throwing abilities) will defeat the beast! krull
luthurian@reddit
Take the fire from my hand.
mam88k@reddit
Sounds like you got the shaft my dude. My satin panic T-Shirt says "AC/DC".
Exciting_couple77@reddit
SANTA 🤶?
FriarNurgle@reddit
The nuns beat me
SkipSpenceIsGod@reddit
Same…but I was into it.
NuncioBitis@reddit
So glad you didn’t add “off”
KCchessc6@reddit
That was the priest
foresyte@reddit
The Krull Glaive for your icon, fantastic!
Dunkelregen@reddit
Ooh, does the t-shirt say "Crit Happens," like mine?
PuzzleheadedClock134@reddit
We were supposed to get a shirt. Damn missed out on that.
guachi01@reddit
My grade school had the 1st edition DMG and PHB in the library. It's where I first read it. So I can imagine the uproar would have been zero at my school.
dbeman@reddit
I work in a middle school. We have a D&D club that has so many kids interested in it they had to split them up into groups that meet on different days. Monday through Thursday. And there are more girls than boys. I love it...but wish there was this level of enthusiasm for the game back when I was in 7th grade.
sly-3@reddit
Whatever it takes to get the kids in the same room talking to each other.
elphaba00@reddit
My teen's high school has a Game Masters club. It's a large group of kids who get together after school to play D&D and games like that. My kid is actually a member of the club's subgroup, the painting miniatures squad. The sponsor of the group is the school's assistant principal. He used to own a gaming store, and he recently scored them a huge donation of books and dice.
abstractraj@reddit
There was really an issue? Lots of kids played D&D when I was a kid. (Suburban Detroit)
enverx@reddit
Mostly among evangelicals. Probably not so much in majority-Catholic areas like suburban Detroit.
Wrig3@reddit
Oh yeah, there really was. Two friends and I founded the fantasy role-playing games club at our high school in suburban West Denver in 1983. At first the principal said we were not allowed to have that kind of club and claimed that the district superintendent said this was policy. So we went to the district superintendent. Turns out, the principal was full of it and so we started our club with the district’s blessing. But the pushback at the local level was amazing. Underinformed parents really thought that playing dungeons and dragons was a sort of participation in Satanism.
Beneficial-Badger-61@reddit
What happened to the 3 R's ?
I played this game..just never at school
BryanMichaelFrancis@reddit
It’s in the library to check out, not a class.
ApplianceHealer@reddit
Ah yes, the “three Rs”…one of which is proudly misspelled 😛
Osprey_Talon@reddit
Won't someone think about the children?!?
ApplianceHealer@reddit
I think we need the pastors and “youth ministers” to stop thinking about the children quite so much.
eyehate@reddit
The uproar over Dungeons & Dragons was one of the early things that made me question religion. It was not the first or last thing that finally broke the dam. But it was instrumental.
The fact that grown ass people thought this game or fantasy and wizards in literature could corrupt somebody was such utter nonsense. It made me wonder about the legitimacy of putting faith into an immaterial thing with not a single iota of evidence.
So, Thanks Gary Gygax. You helped me realize that this world never needed a prime mover. Just people needing a crutch. And losing this need to kneel before a gossamer deity was wasting a life better spent.
ApplianceHealer@reddit
Right out of the conservative/fascist playbook. Our god is all powerful, loves everyone, etc. But can be easily defeated by any form of tabletop gaming—D&D, ouija boards, poker, and the dreaded billiard parlor.
in-a-microbus@reddit
So....what you're saying is you played D&D and now you are an atheist?
WilliamMcCarty@reddit
Who else's grandparents watched the 700 Club?
lunicorn@reddit (OP)
And whose relatives still watch Jim Bakker? Yes, Jim of Jim and Tammy Faye is still around.
SomeDudeNamedRik@reddit
I HAVE SINNED
ApplianceHealer@reddit
Ah, Jimmy Swaggart. Nice of his followers to forgive him for jacking off with a hooker in the room…presumably because it wasn’t a drag queen? /s
WilliamMcCarty@reddit
Grandma always said Jim and Tammy Faye seemed like used car salesmen, lol. But she did watch Billy Grahm and Oral Roberts.
elphaba00@reddit
My dad would have had his college completely paid for by his grandmother IF he had gone to Oral Roberts University. He said he made a trip to the campus, probably as a courtesy to his grandmother, but he decided that free college wasn't worth that.
Also, my dad is the only baptized person in the family, but he's also the one who comes right out and says he's an atheist.
yardini@reddit
Tammy Faye died in 2007.
GiantMags@reddit
I remember them on punlic TV
Rurumo666@reddit
I thought she was just elected President? It must be some other painted faced bald old woman.
lunicorn@reddit (OP)
I know. Jim of that couple is still around. I'll reword for clarity.
yardini@reddit
Ah gotcha!
in-a-microbus@reddit
Lol, my patents forbid me from watching any of that calling them "False Prophets"
They let me play D&D....as long as I was within earshot.
icct-hedral@reddit
My grandparents bought me the AD&D starter set for Christmas. So, no.
red286@reddit
It used to be on before cartoons on Sunday morning where I lived, so I'd often catch the tail end of it.
As someone who had a 100% irreligious upbringing, that show was SUPER CONFUSING as a child. I had no clue what the "good book" was or even who "Jesus" was, yet that old geezer wouldn't shut up about them ever.
meleedeez@reddit
My Parents did...I was a kid and was like...hmmm weird and creepy what the heck?
thatguygreg@reddit
My grandma sure did, and she was at church every single morning. Other than that, she was essentially Rose Nyland.
mike___mc@reddit
Man, that shit was on every morning at their house.
WilliamMcCarty@reddit
There's someone right now, they're suffering from possession by the devil, God is casting out that demon, you're free, I feel you...someone right now, they have bowel cancer...God is curing that cancer, He's healing you, you're going to be fine...take this time to talk to your children about the dangers of heavy metal and Dungeons & Dragons, these are doorways to let Satan into your home...
Sad_Swing_1673@reddit
Bunch of kids in “Dead Kennedys” T-shirts playing DnD - yeah not going to happen.
AdApart3365@reddit
Ai for AWEBER
Thomisawesome@reddit
I literally had to sneak around behind my parents back to play D&D. This is amazing.
TheRealEkimsnomlas@reddit
Fortunately I was in a D&D group when I was in junior high/high school before all the Moral Majority bullshit took society over. There was no scandal about it at all before idiots like Phyllis Schlafly started flapping their brainless jaws. I'm so glad at least most of society has come back around in its thinking about roleplaying and games in general.
Cross_22@reddit
Kind of.. D&D is censoring their own stuff nowadays, so not sure if it was a victory or a loss.
My experience in the early 90s was great. We took our source books to summer camp and the middle school teacher was genuinely curious to watch us play.
in-a-microbus@reddit
Lol...we met at my church too.
Biggest scandal was when the church secretary found out we were using the copier without asking.
RanchWaterHose@reddit
Same, I was playing D&D with friends circa 1981 and the school confiscated all of our “satanic” materials.
Dunkelregen@reddit
I was still in elementary school (10, and got my own red box set on my 11th birthday), but I lost half my group to that. Luckily, my parents were agnostic, so I got to keep playing. I kept playing D&D, Star Frontiers and GammaWorld, even by myself, just creating my own parties and designing my own maps and coming up with new stories. It's why I studied architecture and journalism in college.
LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit
My cousins child said they have a D&D club in her school but for some reason they won’t allow a Harry Potter club.
merrysunshine2@reddit
Battleaxe1959@reddit
I’ve always wanted to play.
Fuzzeles@reddit
I bought the same kit for the ‘family’ gift from me and now no one wants to play 😤
mechanab@reddit
Maybe they will let Tom Hanks out of the asylum now.
Kilted-Brewer@reddit
They let him out already. Unfortunately, they stuck him on an island with nothing but a volleyball for a friend.
Bear_Salary6976@reddit
He also married a mermaid.
robgrab@reddit
Ugh. The Satanic Panic. Dungeons and Dragons and looking for hidden messages in rock music by playing songs backwards. That was when the Reagan conservatives were going after anything fun. Looks like conservatism is making a big comeback, so buckle up.
Bear_Salary6976@reddit
There were a lot of liberals that bought into it too. The conservatives were taking a religious angle to it. Liberals thought it was just ruining our minds.
Going after anything that Gen Xers did for fun had total bipartisan support. Our music, clothes, D&D, video games were things that both sides thought were corrupting us.
planetshapedmachine@reddit
Don’t worry, GOP will bring the satanic party panic back VERY SOON I BET
Coldf1re@reddit
I can still remember that 60 minutes segment on the "Dangers of D&D"
JackFuckCockBag@reddit
I was already the weird kid that was into punk rock and skateboarding at my redneck school in Kentucky. I couldn't let any of them know I played D&D too.
Puzzleheaded_Log_398@reddit
I wasn’t allowed to play it when I was a kid because satan.
Sprzout@reddit
I remember in the 90's when my aunt wouldn't let me play Magic: The Gathering because she thought I was summoning demons.
I knew I was playing a card game. I also don't have a religious following like she does.
FuckedUpYearsAgo@reddit
Only here in our state of WA, is my guess
FuckedUpYearsAgo@reddit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies#:~:text=D%26D%20has%20been%20accused%20of,D%26D%205th%20edition%20supplemental%20rulebooks.
Tim-oBedlam@reddit
Reading the 1E Dungeon Master's Guide was good for my vocabulary, since Gygax was overly fond of 50-cent words. Plus, 5E doesn't have the notorious Harlot Encounter Table in the back.
oced2001@reddit
arthurjeremypearson@reddit
I'm calling it. Parents start endorsing something, it's done.
Jan 17, 2025 when D&D became uncool.
ziggy029@reddit
I think I mostly got out of school before there would have been too many objections to this for being "satanic". By well into the '80s and '90s, yeah, Moral Majority type fundamentalist groups would have blown a gasket, but they hadn't really gained critical mass by the time I got out. Those of you who are a few years younger than me, yeah, I can imagine.
JEStucker@reddit
WotC was trying to sell those Essentials Kits for anywhere from $35-$50 depending on which retailer you went to. (MSRP was $49.95)
I picked one up at a local Ollies for $5, along with Creature and Terrain Campaign cases for $3 each... I didn't need them, but under $15 with tax, they're additional resources I'll never use.
atypical_lemur@reddit
Back when I was playing D&D a lot I was constantly picking up "additional resources I'll never use." Nice finds. I wish we had Ollies around where I live. I always here cool things about it.
JEStucker@reddit
Nearest “local” one is about 40 minutes away, have 2 semi-nearby, same distance, but opposite directions, and one is in another state.
AlgaeDizzy2479@reddit
I and two friends got banned from our junior high school library for playing D&D, in the library, on our lunch break.
Certain_Spinach8646@reddit
Good_With_Tools@reddit
My 18yo son has been playing DnD with friends all year this year. They get together once a week and are having a great time. I'm just glad this is still a thing with kids.
Sweet_Mulberry8526@reddit
Hmmm
birdandbear@reddit
I never got to play as a kid, but not because of the Satanic Panic. Sure, my parents would have had a conniption if I had, but the main reason was lack of opportunity. I rolled up a few characters over the years, but something always fell through, and I never got to actually play.
But now? I'm excited because tomorrow is D&D day. I'm in the thick of my first campaign with my family and a couple of friends. And I'm having the time of my life!
This game is bonkers. Our DM, a friend of my kids, is an amazing narrator. Our company chemistry is chaotic, unpredictable, and hilarious. The wild shenanigans, the breath-holding dice rolls, the animated discussions both in and out of character, the feeling of stakes - a guy showed up in my dream with a deck of Tarot cards and now I have three Wishes I'm afraid to use 🫣 - all of it, is incredible fun. And it's all precious time spent with family and friends, instead of gaming or scrolling Reddit on my own.
Honestly, D&D feels like the healthiest thing I've done in a long time. It's awesome to see something so wholesome freely offered to kids.
MiketheOlder@reddit
I’m sure some people will complain
Arrgh98@reddit
Where are the Ozzie or metal tapes, and He Man figures and videos, you need all the devil’s playthings.
bosorka1@reddit
not allowed to listen to ACDC or Sabbath growing up. we had to share lyrics sheets with parents. ugh
later in life tho, i think my dad (RIP) developed a similar appreciation to mine regarding ACDC.
OutlandishnessNo7575@reddit
It's happening in Seattle. Could you imagine the uproar right now if it was happening in Florida lol. They'd burn them all.
Tydirium7@reddit
We had BAAAAAAD Satanic Panic in southwest Minnesota!
My high school basketball coach actually asked me if I was going to be ok a) with risk of suicide, and b) if I'd get hurt going into the woods with my friends. WTF?
The churches regularly preached that Satanism had infiltrated our towns in these "dungeons and dragaons spellbooks" and they handed out Chick Publications. Evidently nerds and engineers couldn't separate fantasy from reality but I have to laugh at the irony of them saying that.
The reality check is that the church just started to predate on other things and people after they couldn't pick on D&D nerds anymore.
Ocksu2@reddit
My Mom would have passed TF out. I had to sneak to play D&D and had to hide my books from her.
To be fair.... a lot of people would still freak out about this. Especially in less ... progressive... areas.
RadiantFee3517@reddit
Ah yes. Cuz satanic panic never went away, it just took a nap.
I have coworkers all dithered up about the game. It's even worse since, to them, not only is the game still all demon worshipping sorts of evil, but it's 'woke' too.
Madame_Kitsune98@reddit
My husband’s parents would have had a damn aneurysm.
I fervently hope that wherever my late FIL ended up? They do a lot of TTRPGing just to spite him.
Btalon33@reddit
My 6th grade teacher forbade us from playing it since "It is evil". I'm in my 50's and still playing regularly. I also love seeing that is not only no longer stigmatized but wildly popular.
Zosopagedadgad@reddit
There are many places right now that would raise a stink over this and call it work of the devil..
Watch_Noob_72@reddit
The panic was satanic.
Corporation_tshirt@reddit
People my mom went to church with were convinced I was going straight to hell because she let me read comics, check out books from the adult section of the library, and played D&D. She told them, “His hobby is reading. Do you understand what I’m saying to you?” She didn’t even give me a hard time about listening to punk and metal music because she thought it had to be a good thing that I was deciding for myself what I liked and not just following the crowd
TheChewyWaffles@reddit
Fuck you Bob Larson
tunaman808@reddit
My parents built a new house in 1984. One of the... painters, I think? was this guy who, while generally nice and polite, was a member of one of those tiny Baptist churches here in the South, way out in the country with just... weird, apocalyptic beliefs?
He somehow found out I played D&D, and tried to "warn" my mom about it:
Madame_Kitsune98@reddit
I got to hear that shit growing up here in rural Western Kentucky.
It didn’t help that I was Catholic, that every single priest pretty much ignored the nonsense surrounding D&D being “the game of SATAN!!1!1ELEVENTY!”, or that I was a nerdy kid.
All the snotty Southern Baptists loved to tell me I was going to HELL!!! because of all that AND D&D.
They really hate it when you shrug and say, “Okay. Meet you there.”
sneakysnake1111@reddit
If you don't think the satanic panic is right on out front fucking door, you're a boomer, not genx.
UnitGhidorah@reddit
I'm glad people like D&D now but I don't think it's very good compared to AD&D 2e.
TheBlindCrafter@reddit
This was as close as I was allowed to get to D&D. Because, demonic influences, you know. Still haven't ever gotten to play.
UnitGhidorah@reddit
I don't play D&D anymore, not that I hate it or anything, but I play World of Darkness games. Which your parent definitely wouldn't have let you play if it was around back then.
TheBlindCrafter@reddit
See here's what doesn't make sense. We listened to Dr Demento weekly growing up. Listened to EVERYTHING on there. Sure some songs were inappropriate, but those were few and far between. So yes I know the Dead Alewives but never seen a real D&D session. Holidays too. Never ever heard holiday music willingly, but I know Allan Sherman's Twelve gifts and Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero.....
UnitGhidorah@reddit
Hell yeah, I loved Dr Demento!\~
TheBlindCrafter@reddit
Of course I knew Smells Like Nirvana way before Smells Like Teen Spirit.
I remember you had to be ten before you could call in to request a song, and when I did turn ten, I did! I asked for Allan Sherman's Hello Muddah Hello Faddah and I was SO excited and proud of myself!
My mom hated that my sister loved The Scotsman song......
UnitGhidorah@reddit
That's awesome. IDK how you could have possibly knew Smell like Nirvana before the original.
TheBlindCrafter@reddit
Dr demento good, "worldly" music bad.
I was raised in a cult.
I still tend to sing "Well it sure beats... Raising cattle!"
in-a-microbus@reddit
"Can I have a Mountain Dew!?"
UnitGhidorah@reddit
"If there's girls there I want to DO them!"
Prepperpoints2Ponder@reddit
OnlyGuestsMusic@reddit
My kid’s school has a Dungeons & Dragons club.
Exciting_couple77@reddit
My church wanted anyone who had dnd material to burn it. I stopped going not long after
Solomon044@reddit
Been playing since middle school, right through the satanic panic of the 80's. Just finishing the mission in this box set with my kids this weekend. DnD rocks.
GozerDestructor@reddit
$17 on Amazon right now... I just ordered one, for the nostalgia factor.
I was an avid player and DM in the '80s, having sessions with my classmates in a storage room in my Catholic grade school (with permission). That all changed when the "Satanic Panic" hit... one day, the principal sent every student home with photocopies of an anti-D&D tirade from Jimmy Swaggart's magazine (and I had an hours-long argument with my Mom about it). The next day, he told us that the game was officially banned.
I was crushed. I'm autistic with social anxiety, so D&D was the only way I interacted with my peers - and I excelled there, for my brain is perfectly wired for memorizing the minutiae of the complex rules. With this taken away, I pretty much stopped talking to anyone, retreating into fantasy and science fiction novels.
Up to that point, I'd been a very devout Catholic, and fully intended to become a priest. But I'd been betrayed by the people the Church had set in authority over me. Though outwardly I still went through the motions, within a few months I'd abandoned my plans for the priesthood and was privately considering myself an "unaffiliated Christian", and I started to explore religious thought outside the Catholic church (through my local public library). By two years later, I had abandoned Christianity altogether.
chocobot01@reddit
That's beautiful to see 😊
My middle school actually had a d&d club. I just wasn"t allowed to participate because I was a bad child (i.e. audhd and bullied a lot) so no extracurricular activities besides detention and in-school suspension. My brothers got to do it though.
RegretAccumulator72@reddit
My english teacher was doing a grad school presentation and I let her borrow all my D&D stuff as props. She wrote a nice thank you note.
jikt@reddit
I wish I had ttrpg friends. I recently got back into it after paying Baldur's Gate 3, but was drawn more toward the Old School movement. I've bought a bunch of different books and really enjoy reading through them, but having like minded people... Fuck, I just want nerdy friends like I had in high school.
PlentyIndividual3168@reddit
I live in NC. In the 90's (or maybe late 80's) some college kid unalived his parents and family to claim their inheritance. It was blamed on AD&D and Risk.
samebatchannel@reddit
Man, the satanic panic. Did anyone else’s parents play a game of d&d with their parents? Or just me?
celticman1976@reddit
Not only did I play. But long story short my mother was the private secretary for the head lawyer that represented TSR . So I got all the free D&D stuff for a couple years . Like boxes of stuff I'm pissed i didn't hang on to it . I could cry thinking of all the first run shit I had .
samebatchannel@reddit
Nice! My parents played one game to make sure we were okay then stopped.
ThermalIgnition@reddit
You don't have to read too deep to find why this is happening. They sterilized the character types and removed their specific attributes.
It fits the bland, politically correct message school administration wants to peddle now.
Princessferfs@reddit
So everyone is just a paladin now?
in-a-microbus@reddit
Right and wrong are just words and combat is resolved thought understanding.
nofreelaunch@reddit
The new version is super PC unfortunately so I won’t offend anyone. Like apparently Halflings are as strong as Hill Giants now. It’s racist to have actual fantasy races now.
in-a-microbus@reddit
We traded one moral panic for another.
Level21DungeonMaster@reddit
My first d&d book was a first edition players handbook photocopied at public school and borrowed from the public library.
Etrigone@reddit
I got kinda lucky. I did have an evangelical, born again, young earth creationist SIL who was sure this was a tool of Satan. Hardcore conservative after multiple near-death (as in, she suffered brain damage) ODs.
My father, religious (Roman Catholic old school Italian) but also a money guy; CPA and worked in finances. He lived through the great depression and ROI was something he grok'ed. We were in a rough patch financially but I pointed out how as far as hobbies it was fairly cheap once you got past the basic books & dice. It amortized quite nicely.
Made SIL really pissed, if not so pissed as to pass on my father providing them housing when they would have been homeless. Didn't stop their insults so I give credit to my father for being a good person there.
Otoh when I pointed out my SIL met my brother through gaming and if not for it they wouldn't have met, and her ballistic reaction, he did say that was a little over the top.
beanzerbunzer@reddit
When I was a kid, my mom told me if I was spending the night at someone’s house and they started playing D&D, to call her right away and she’d picked me up. Scared me shitless.
in-a-microbus@reddit
When I was a kid my patents bought pizza for the D&D group that met on Friday night....but never on Saturday night because we had church the next morning.
HeartyDogStew@reddit
Funny, I was first exposed to D&D in 1979 or 1980 by my math teacher and it became a lifelong passion. I was in the gifted class which is probably why she had the latitude. But at least in some cases D&D was in schools even back when we were children.
forgeblast@reddit
Lol I did a speech in hs that dnd wasn't satanic in my Catholic high school history class lol. The nerd was strong in me.
happycj@reddit
Dumbass Moral Majority BS. "It's devil-worshipping!" No, Florence, it is not. Go sit down.
in-a-microbus@reddit
I never got that line from people who actually went to church.
DemandezLesOiseaux@reddit
Stupid Falwell and Helms and the rest of them whose names I can’t remember.
And Tipper Gore with her ridiculous music labels that told us nothing about why the music was “bad.”
Eve_O@reddit
"You only make us wanna hear it that much more. Doncha' you know you make it much more fun and that's why we love you, Tipper Gore."
We Love You, Tipper Gore - Furnaceface (1992).
Karfedix_of_Pain@reddit
I got in a shitton of trouble for bringing D&D books to school back in the day.
Got hauled down to the principal's office. My parents were called. There was talk of contacting the police. Eventually I got off with just a few days of detention and a promise not to bring the books to school again.
So stupid.
in-a-microbus@reddit
Ya...the "donations" probably came when they realized they were never going to sell their inventory. Like Marvel, Star Wars, and AAA videogame studios: WotC spent the last decade badmouthing their core audience then blamed YouTubers for their sluggish sales
Koolmidx@reddit
r/UnexpectedBrianRegan
Eve_O@reddit
Lots of mention of the "Satanic Panic." Don't forget this 1982 gem of a movie, lol.
anothercynic2112@reddit
That would have led the 6 o'clock news.
Stay-Thirsty@reddit
I was lucky enough to have been introduced to D&D by an adult. This guy was part of a regular group that spun off from the original Gary Gygax (he didn’t play with the man, but his DM did).
Think i still have an original 4-sides die from my original box set (somewhere in storage). Very rounded.
When I introduced it to some friends, one of them had a mom said it was the Devil’s way of go after children. Kind of funny when most groups were good and we fought the evil ones.
jeexbit@reddit
I would love to get back into D&D and introduce my kid to it. Is this "Essentials Kit" a good way to go about doing that? I have a few of the old books: DMs guide, players handbook, a few modules, that's about it. I have a feeling a lot of things have changed with the game since the early 80s lol.
Kestrel_Iolani@reddit
Side note: same guy made sure there was a voter registration both at Emerald City Comic Con.
But yeah, it's still weird seeing nerd culture, especially D&D become popular.
EmperorXerro@reddit
I’m glad my mom was smart enough to realize that D&D helped with language arts, reading comprehension, and Geography.
ChavoDemierda@reddit
Dooooood! That would have been so cool! On a different subject, but kinda related, anybody remember when an xtian pastor named Walter Martin went on Donahue and "debated" Anton LaVey? Yeah, Walter Martin was my mom's pastor. He even married my parents at Melodyland, the monster church across the street from Disneyland. Yeah, well I started playing DnD back then, loved it but stopped because my BFF moved away. He and his older brother are a big reason why I'm an atheist now. They were both intimidatingly smart.
pyrowipe@reddit
Panic at the Satanic Disco!
Alternative-Light514@reddit
I remember a guy getting his 5-sides die confiscated in the school library, just because it fell out of his pocket
(It might have had more than 5 sides, but it was for d&d, that I know)
Humble_Diner32@reddit
I have always supported these sorts of avenues for people, young and old, to connect on. I believe by providing people the opportunity and outlet to engage in gaming of this kind in a public space you help foster community, intrapersonal relationships, creativity, and socio-emotional development. Let’s get these in all schools and create a better environment for students. Even offer after school sessions for those who might not have the access to play in their home life. Hire paras or school staff to start later in the day so that they are there a couple hours after school lets out for those students who need the time for social interaction.
Fluffy-Match9676@reddit
I totally agree!
My kid with AuDHD loves playing D&D at our public library. It's the one time I can get him out of the house and socializing with others.
snarf_the_brave@reddit
I finally told my mom last year that, as a kid in my 50s, I had started playing D&D. She gasped and told me she wished I wouldn't do that, and then started telling me about all these kids I knew growing up that had either unalived themselves or been unalived by someone else because of D&D. No, mom, that one did it because they couldn't kick their drug problem. That one was in a horrible car accident. That one... Not one of her examples were because of D&D.
In the town that I grew up in, they would have had a collective meltdown if this had happened when I was a kid. We would've had game burning parties to go along with the record burning parties.
NetworkingForFun@reddit
It is always interesting to me that society learns nothing from these bouts of mass hysteria. “On to the next boogeyman!”
Patient-Assignment38@reddit
Fuck yeah! Satan rules!
handsomeape95@reddit
https://i.redd.it/2ejtan1k4lde1.gif
No_Variety9420@reddit
I was accused of being a satanists by my 5th grade teaching in the 80's for playing D&D
bird9066@reddit
Satanic panic drove us out of the library and into people's basements. Lol
So much safer.
ElYodaPagoda@reddit
My brothers and I were huge into D&D, and our mom had some concerns, which we showed her the rules and the books, so she never freaked out about our gaming sessions.
In 7th Grade, our table group had a small game during class, with our teacher's approval. Of course it was the most ridiculous Monty Haul adventure, but it was fun.
Littleleicesterfoxy@reddit
It's because we are the parents and teachers now :)
HippCelt@reddit
Tbh honest I'd've been pissed off as I was more into percentle systems. Having said that I did start my schools Rpg club with AD+D cos people were familiar with the name.
imdugud777@reddit
Dad tried that angle. Didn't work. 2E for life! Lol.
Frigidspinner@reddit
I was going to say! They ban drag queens reading to kids, only to let this satanic propaganda in?
/s
Princessferfs@reddit
Hey, those are educational! Calculating armor class is math
Miserable_Jacket_129@reddit
My tiny community would've had a collective stroke if this had happened when I was growing up. My mom made sure only a few people knew my little group played AD&D (and listened to Ozzy Osbourne).
Weird-Yesterday-8129@reddit
Just in time for the Third Satanic Panic!
lunicorn@reddit (OP)
I remember being with some friends who were totally against D&D and asked them if they think teacher X would still be around if everyone could really do damage in real life. They did admit it was unlikely.
Hctc666@reddit
satanic panic!
Ferrindel@reddit
I think my mom regrets getting caught up in the Focus on the Family hype and banning any role-playing. Spoony’s takedown of “Mazes and Monsters” was spot-on - you know, for a millennial.