Anti-RPG culture "gem"

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Yep, I remember it well. Ironically, I learned about D&D hearing about the controversy. When I was a kid, they didn't sell D&D books here. Since we couldn't play the real D&D, we just made up our own RPG, drawing maps on poster boards and making up our own rules.

One of my friends got Pool of Radiance somehow, but his parents were too strict to let him play it. My parents were pretty chill, so we'd play it on my dad's computer. I eventually bought it from him for $10. I sold it years later. I regret that.

Looks like I'm supposedly blacklisted?

Can't we all appreciate those gem tier movies like Knights of Badassdom or maze and Monsters :3
Well even the DnD movies are so comically bad they become gold tier.

Profion is simply the best.

Ah yes the infamous Chick Tracts. It's not even the worst, AFAIK there are also homophobic and antisemitic ones. Honestly that last panel looks more like some kind of contract with the devil than any D&D game ever will (what's with that weird fascination with Jesus' blood?).

Sadly I don't think they are written as satire...

Still, only edition of Necronomicon I believe in is the Original by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred. Don't accept the fakes.

OMG can't believe this is real.

That comic might have broken my cringe meter. It's been screaming obscenities for the last 20 minutes and it won't shut up >.<

Anyways, I've never played any Tabletop RPGs myself. I don't know if they're just not popular around here or if I'm too antisocial/introverted to meet any people who are into them. Maybe I'd actually have some real life friends if I did... Probably not, but maybe. :/

"200.00 worth of new figures and manuals" And it was quite a few years ago. Not bad

It's hard to believe that something like that could be written in earnest and not as a parody, but hey, I've met religious fanatics in real life that say shit like that and apparently believe it. Kinda worrying that some can't seem to separate reality from fiction. This does make me wonder what they think about fantasy writers tho, do they think fantasy novels are trying to indoctrinate into some sort of hellish cult or something?

I wish I could cast spells for real... But for that I'd have to level up cleric... yuck

But you have been trapped in a dungeon of bondage.

Wait a second, that sounds like a lot of fun! :D ;D :D

I played lots of Pen&Paper in my youth. If I didn´t, maybe I´d still be alive today 😥

Haven't seen that one before, but I do remember the "Satanic Panic" over D&D being quite the hot topic when I was a kid. I had never heard of anything like an RPG before that. Naturally, I was like "there's a game about magic and dragons and stuff? Cool, sign me up!"

I really wonder just how much D&D owes its player base to all of the attention it got back then.