euphorbic:ayellowbirds:theoutcastrogue:epicdndmemes:A love letter to DnD. Comment here. Reddit threa
euphorbic:ayellowbirds:theoutcastrogue:epicdndmemes:A love letter to DnD. Comment here. Reddit thread: “To the children who’s parents participated in the satanic panic of the 80’s/90’s, what are your stories?”. And the PHB photo: It’s honestly hard to express just how endemic this was when i was little. You could not talk about D&D (to say nothing of other RPGs), video games, fantasy fiction, et cetera in a space with strangers because there would inevitably be at least one kid, parent, or Concerned Adult who would give you stern warnings about the danger of it. Even in more liberal and religiously diverse places, there was this huge segment of the population that was convinced there was a real and active danger of being victimized by satanic cults.You can kind of see the nods to it in some media of the time; X-Files touches on it here and there, for example. But if y’all ever wonder why older fans can seem so evasive about our interest… it’s because of this. Even in the southern NY suburbs i grew up in, it wasn’t unheard of to know kids who were suddenly pulled out of social groups, after school activities, any contact with friends at all by parents who wanted to reeducate them and keep them away from the imaginary danger of devil worshipping murder-cults. And everyone knew (but didn’t talk about) at least one kid who got a lot worse than that when their parents caught them having the wrong kind of interests. I wasn’t allowed to keep my D&D books in the house. I had to keep them outside in the tool shed or in the project car. -- source link