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#1 Timpookie Jan 11, 2015 5:12:17	So about twenty two hours ago a player in my campaign mentioned that he had heard that D&D was satanic or something from a disaproving parent. Seeing as most people here have played the game for years, I was wondering if anyone could out why people think this.
#2 RalofTyr Jan 13, 2015 14:09:27	I grew up in the '80s and had a religous upbrining; D&D was considered the work of Satan. Because groups of the town's anti-social (Weirdos) would meet in what Christians perceived in a cult-like setting; I was taught to hate D&D because of the spell-casting.    Here is a wiki article.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies
#3 Timpookie Jan 15, 2015 5:40:17	RalofTyr wrote:
#4 Kram-Odlog Jan 16, 2015 0:34:38	I always felt it was satanic cause we gathered around a table, drew a pentagram, light some candles and invoked the prince of darkness.
#5 Timpookie Jan 16, 2015 0:40:28	Kram-Odlog wrote:
#6 Kram-Odlog Jan 16, 2015 9:44:47	Mother is dead.
#7 LuisCarlos17f Jan 18, 2015 7:30:43	D&D is about adventures in worlds where natural laws are different and even the plants and animal can cast some magic powers. Is satanic "My Little Pony: Friendship is magic" or "Equestria Girls"?  D&D isn´t worse that videogames, Harry Potter's books, superheroes comics, Disney movies or White Wolf's rpgs.    Really D&D destroys ocultism because it becomes mythlogy in the hands of DMs.
#8 RalofTyr Jan 19, 2015 18:12:47	Timpookie wrote:
#9 Timpookie Jan 20, 2015 3:59:27	RalofTyr wrote:
#10 Llenlleawg Jan 20, 2015 5:25:45	Generally, the same set that worries (or, rather more likely, worried) that D&D is Satanic would also (indeed did also) worry that Harry Potter is Satanic.   Here's the thing. There was something of an upsurge of interest in Satan and the occult in the USA in the 70s and early 80s. There was also a certain anxiety about the wicked deeds performed by "Satanic cults". Much of this was found to be pure paranoia. Some of it was adolescent nonsense, using the Satanic/occult imagery that played a significant role in the oft-preferred cultural world of disaffected teens (think metal album covers from the late 70s/early 80s). Perhaps some of it was authentic Satanism.   At the same time, you had a tradition that worried about the use, by the Devil, of often seemingly innocent activities as a gateway to invite his malign interest (think anxieties about Halloween, e.g.).   Put this together, namely occult interest, adolescent rebellion cloaking itself in occult imagery, actual police reports (even if later shown to be unfounded) of Satanic cults, a religious worry about occult interest as a gateway into spiritual corruption, and the presence in D&D not merely of magic, but of demons and devils, of the PCs themselves using magic, and let's face it, the very newness the the game itself (roleplaying games were very new!) — anyway, the result in some circles, and fed by the media, was the question as to whether D&D was "dangerous", i.e. Satanic.   No doubt, there is still some residue of this line of thought out there, so that's what you're hearing. Still, it's helpful to know where it came from, as well as to deal charitably with those who think there's something worrisome. They likely mean well, and are repeating a concern they have heard elsewhere.
#11 Kram-Odlog Jan 20, 2015 13:55:36	80s satanic panic explained! http://io9.com/a-brief-history-of-satanic-panic-in-the-1980s-1679476373
#12 Timpookie Mar 05, 2015 0:10:16	Llenlleawg wrote:
#13 caridhor Mar 04, 2015 19:59:15	2 words... Mike Mearls