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The Real History of the Satanic Panic!

Started by RPGPundit, January 22, 2025, 06:27:18 PM

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Bedrockbrendan

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Today at 06:51:45 PM
Quote from: Brad on Today at 11:46:02 AMMy mom watched the 700 Club and bought into D&D being pure evil. She made my brother and I get rid of our Mentzer stuff, but really we just hid it. Oddly, she had zero issues with any other RPG, including Palladium FRP, TMNT, Rolemaster, etc., so I bought a lot of those instead and played D&D anyway. It was literally only D&D which was problematic, perplexingly so.

Even to this fucking day she thinks D&D is magically evil, when the metric ton of other RPGs I have are fine, even shit like Nephilim and Aquelarre, which could arguably be Satanic. I mean, The Arcanum has a pentagram on the front, that's okay, but D&D? EEEEEEVIL!

If the Satanic Panic was a psyop, it was to tank TSR and allow other publishers to thrive.

The 700 club was pretty intensely on the anti-D&D train even well after the Satanic Panic ended. One of my favorite PSAs they used to run: https://youtu.be/kDJ1UOpxjt4?si=-21YOkBsnR3Ahtaw

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Today at 08:54:38 PM
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Today at 10:20:04 PM
Quote from: Bedrockbrendan on Today at 06:51:45 PMThe 700 club was pretty intensely on the anti-D&D train even well after the Satanic Panic ended. One of my favorite PSAs they used to run: https://youtu.be/kDJ1UOpxjt4?si=-21YOkBsnR3Ahtaw

That game looks super badass compared to a bunch of nerds playing D&D. Was this supposed to deter anyone?
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