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remove the "fantasy role-playing game" part and you have great description of youtube, tiktok, facebook etc

• justinclift 3y ago
  "a which uses demonology, witchcraft, ... " ?
• Lutzb 3y ago
  > But in the 1980s the game came under an extraordinary sustained assault from fundamentalist religious groups who feared its power over young minds. > ... > Pulling described D&D as "a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings". It could be said that the source material for the religious groups contains far worse stories. I wonder if the irony was lost on the people back then.
  • austin-cheney 3y ago
    It can go both ways. One of the cofounders of the Dragon Lance stories and games used his religious expertise (LDS) and knowledge of an Indonesian language learned from his religious mission to help develop story plots and the pantheon of gods.
• lucozade 3y ago
  In fairness, if you remove fantasy role-playing game, it's not a terrible description of the Old Testament.