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I think some folks confused Dungeons and Dragons with Lovecraftian role playing games that were popular at the same time. Those were demonic. That’s not a val

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > I think some folks confused Dungeons and Dragons with Lovecraftian role playing games that were popular at the same time. No, the latter were never anywhere close to as popular; the deliberate propaganda was targeted at D&D because it was fringe enough that people wouldn't know it was lies and popular enough that it would have impact. > Those were demonic. No, they weren't (the in-game fiction may have been, but that was often true of D&D which was like an order of magnitude more popular than anything else in the TTRPG market at the time of the Satanic Panic.) In fact, using the Lovecraft mythos in D&D, for which it was written up, was more popular than the purpose-built games. > D&D was ultimately based on Lord of the Rings, so there were demons in it. But it wasn’t demonic in the Cthulhu sense. D&D was pretty distant from LotR, and had the Cthulhu mythos literally started up in one of the major supplements.
• Talanes 5y ago
  > They were literally based around demons taking over the world and killing all goodness. And there were was nothing anyone could do to stop it. So are the Left Behind books, and those are literally Christian Fiction.