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Y'all made me laugh so hard I got hiccups.
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Something I'm remembering now is that some local yokels (a pair of brothers if rumor is true) broke into our school and painted 'Satan Lives!' and other slogans/symbols on the walls. I doubt the motivation had anything to do with pleasing their dark master and everything to do with riling up their gullible elders. I wonder how common that sort of pranking was.
One of my English essays was a letter I wrote (and actually sent) to some Christian youth magazine, in response to an article warning about the dangers of D&D. I basically pointed out they clearly didn't have the faintest clue what the game actually invovled, and their conclusions were stupid.
All this provoked nothing but bemusement from our tolerant ex-hippie teachers who proceeded to give me As for this kind of behaviour.
All before Columbine and the rather puritan and paranoid environment kids seem to grow up in these days of course.
I wouldn't try and play Killer these days as a kid, certainly not like we used to.In High School a friend and I used to joke about sacrificing puppies, worshipping Satan and the like all the time.
Our fellow students knew we were just weirdos and joking but we had one substitute teacher who we inadvertently freaked out with our schtick until our regular teacher reassured her. I felt bad about that.
For drama class I wrote and directed a play called 'Killing Mr. English' wherein we killed our beloved English teacher who appropriately enough was actually named Mr. English. Of course we performed it with him in attendance. It was all very meta.
I also wrote a poem in Junior High English about burning down my school.
All this provoked nothing but bemusement from our tolerant ex-hippie teachers who proceeded to give me As for this kind of behaviour.
All before Columbine and the rather puritan and paranoid environment kids seem to grow up in these days of course.
And it leaves me wondering ... what would possibly be the fate of our hobby and of pop culture generally if the Satanic Panic had happened today?
The greatest trick The Devil ever pulled wasn't in fact convincing the world he isn't real, but instead convincing my evangelical parents that D&D was Satan's handiwork, which in turn prompted my mom to pick up Cyborg Commando out of the bargain bin at Goodwill, bring it home and say, "Here, why don't you just play this instead?"
Bastard!
I always think the establishment took the wrong message from Columbine and pretty much made everything worse but that's probably not a topic for the pub.
A friend of mine, now married to a Baptist minister (preacher? pastor?) was more direct. In college she just went to the class early, wrote 'class is cancelled today' on the board, and left before anyone else arrived.Want to get out of the 5th period math test? Drop a .22 shell casing (it doesn't actually have to have a BULLET, or anything naughty like that, in it) in the school corridor and you've guaranteed a lockdown.
Yeah, I'd have been arrested and taken away for sure for the things we did playing Killer back in High School 81'- 82'. We used things like trombone slide oil on the rag as chloroform, dart and disc guns, shoebox bombs were indeed a thing, water balloon grenades' etc. I loved my disc gun, though the disc would veer off after a short distance. I took out so many people in the library, theatre room and band room. lol. Fond memories.I wouldn't try and play Killer these days as a kid, certainly not like we used to.
Shoeboxes with clocks on them and the word BOMB written on them?
Miller is the demiurge. Rumour has it Earth was rolled up using the T5 world creation rules and not playtested.
As for God, think about the world you see around you.
You spend 100% of your time fully immersed/eläytyminen in the role of an average person
There are no bennies, no do overs, no metacurrency
Char Gen is random
The world out there might react to what you do, but you have no special narrative place in it.
God is CRKrueger. Let that theological realisation sink in.
But CRKruegar was originally, in another reality, the imaginary friend of a young autistic boy who was used as a test subject for experimental drugs in a mental hospital.
Bro....shit. Are we like all just Endless Flight's dream?
I was just reading over this thread and found this interesting. It can sound sometimes like the US was/is more extreme about stuff like this, i.e. having all these panics and strange cultural phenomena.And one reason the moral campaigners in the UK like Whitehouss may merely appear less extreme...
I pointed out the factual inaccuracies in the article. (It opened with something like, "No rules!" even though rules are pretty much all you actually get when you buy the product. It seems hard to believe they could have been this ignorant, so I may be misremembering, but I actually feel as if the opening was, "No rules! No dice!").What did you write? Did they reply in any way?
Aren't you lot the Cake or Death people anyway?I grew up in northern Delaware and south eastern Pennsylvania, got into RPGs because my mom gave me the Mentzer red box in ‘83. Grew up Episcopalian going to church every Sunday and being part of the church youth group. Never had any issues with Satanic Panic in games or music.
Aren't you lot the Cake or Death people anyway?
Evangelical
As a kid I once tried to get Dolphin Milk from the local grocery store to perform some kind of spell I found in a fiction book.My folks got the red box and blue box for my brother and me and weren't worried about Satan. They didn't want us playing with one specific group of kids, but that was because they SMOKED WEED.
Side note on Satanism: in junior high I found a 'reproduction' of a medieval treatise on demonology, and my parents even got me fox fur (they had a taxidermist friend) to try summoning a demon who would lead me to buried treasure in the garage (summoning the demon in the garage, that is, it would probably have to leave the garage to find the buried treasure).
Didn't work; I guess when the materials include 'shards of the True Cross' they mean more than just a splinter from a local Anglican decoration. And that's why I still have to work.
On the drive to work this morning I was thinking about Stranger Things and how it seemed light on potheads, vs. my experience of that era. The ones I knew were pretty nerdy, loved fantasy/scifi/history/science, but I never knew any who played D&D.My folks got the red box and blue box for my brother and me and weren't worried about Satan. They didn't want us playing with one specific group of kids, but that was because they SMOKED WEED.
On the drive to work this morning I was thinking about Stranger Things and how it seemed light on potheads, vs. my experience of that era. The ones I knew were pretty nerdy, loved fantasy/scifi/history/science, but I never knew any who played D&D.
There does seem to be an... assumption?... that nerds/geeks were comparatively naive/innocent, when they were actually into all sorts of 'forbidden' stuff, at least the ones I hung out with.I can see that. For me, I find that the language is just way too clean considering how people I know talked back then (of course, some of it they wouldn't want to include these days).
It wasn't a big deal in my life, but I remember certain folks getting shown up as frauds/charlatans/dealers in hokem... like Christian 'comedian' Mike Warnke, who had a book claiming he had been a Satanic Priest, was sought after as an an expert on Satanism... but finally had to own up that it was all a big fat lie.How do you think the Satanic Panic ended?
We surfer pot heads of the 1970's & early 1980s before joining the military thank you for the recognition. Often I would go straight from the beach to the game shop. Sun burned, smelling of the ocean, illegal substances, Mister Zogs and sand still falling out of my shorts. lol That of course was before I joined the military to see the world and terrorize Europeans. Err I mean drink all good beer.On the drive to work this morning I was thinking about Stranger Things and how it seemed light on potheads, vs. my experience of that era. The ones I knew were pretty nerdy, loved fantasy/scifi/history/science, but I never knew any who played D&D.
How do you think the Satanic Panic ended?