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On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:23:25 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:I played the DMG backward on a turntable. It created a shredded paper
>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the>
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
>On 11/18/2024 5:31 PM, Jhulian Waldby wrote:>Dimensional Traveler wrote:>On 11/15/2024 12:37 PM, Zaghadka wrote:I guess the concern is that players may become unable to differentiateTop post. First off, please knock it off with the non ANSI characters.I'm pretty sure it was an American phoneme.
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I've never had so much trouble posting a reply.
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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.
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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the truth from the water elemental. I've noticed this in some Dungeon
Masters who argue rules as if it were a physics laboratory. Not one
hint of "this is fiction" or "we can't find a rule for that."
Funny though, I haven't heard anyone mention Satanism in D&D for yrs.
That all stopped a week before I picked up Basic Dungeons & Dragons.
Who were those people? I couldn't tell you, I've forgotten.
Something about some group of teenagers wandering around in the New York
subway tunnels comes to mind.
That's Rona Jaffe's Mazes & Monsters.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084314/
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The Satanism thing was Jack Chick;
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/25/jack-chick-christian-comic-cartoonist-death
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A snippet: "A lot of people hated Jack Chick. He wrote furious screeds
against Dungeons & Dragons, against Catholicism and against rock music;
he waged a long and ultimately unsuccessful war on Halloween. If you
were Jewish or Muslim or gay, Chick wanted you to be saved from the
fires of hell and wrote a comic to tell you so."
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A collection of his lunacy;
https://www.chick.com/products/category?type=tracts
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Specifically for D&D
https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=46&ue=d
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Xocyll
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I mean, it wasn't _only_ Jack Chick. The American 'Satanic Panic'
thing was fairly wide-spread even before D&D; believers pointed to
comic books, movies, rock'n'roll and all sorts of entertainment as
malefic influences on the youth. D&D was a sort of easy target because
one of its rulebooks featured a demonic idol on its cover. But of any
one person could be pointed to as the driving force for the 'D&D is a
tool of Satan", it's probably Patricia Pulling, nominal private
investigator, author of "The Devil's Web" and founder of BADD
('Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons', an anti-satanism campaign that
specifically targeted tabletop RPGs).
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Chick was an end-times baptist nutjob who wrote a lot of corny and
logically-inconsistent morality plays in the form of comic strips
which reflected his very weird beliefs, of which 'Dark Dungeons' was
only one of many. As far as I can tell, it came out in the mid 80s,
some years after Pulling founded BADD and after the height of the
Satanic Panic frenzy.
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