Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] It’s Canon: Baldur’s Gate 3 Brings D&D To The Vatican

On 11/15/2024 1:11 AM, Justisaur wrote:

On 11/14/2024 10:55 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:

Kyonshi  <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

At any rate, it is ironic see D&D go from Satanic Panic to being
installed somewhere in the Vatican in just a few short decades. Never
let anyone tell you who you are.

>
I'm sure D&D was played in some form in the precincts of the Vatican
long before Baldur's Gate 3 was released.  Maybe even during the time
when the Satanic Panic thing was raging in the US and to a lesser extent
the rest of the English speaking world, but not so much in Italy.

 I don't know that it was Catholics going after D&D.  BADD was popularized by evangelicals - specifically the TV kind.  Jack Chick was was some very weird offshoot of Baptist.
 

And I think D&D was too niche back then to even touch some area like that (which is after all just the size of a small town, even in the middle of a metropolis), especially as a lot of inhabitants of the Vatican city are elder professionals.
One would have to look up when DnD was released in Italian maybe.