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

Top post. First off, please knock it off with the non ANSI characters.

I've never had so much trouble posting a reply.

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:32:27 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Kyonshi wrote:

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.

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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.
 

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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.
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One would have to look up when DnD was released in Italian maybe.

All I know, and excuse me if I'm repeating this story for the 19th time,
is that my Irish Catholic grandmother bought me a first print 1e *Deities
& Demigods* for freaking Easter. I asked for it, and she was all "Yup."
So no, I don't think her priest was railing against Satan in D&D.

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