I played RPG tabletop games mostly in the 90s, and in Spain it wasn't really a "persecution complex". One man was murdered by two young guys while playing a "r

I played RPG tabletop games mostly in the 90s, and in Spain it wasn't really a "persecution complex". One man was murdered by two young guys while playing a "role playing game" one of them had invented. That spawned a massive media offensive against RPGs and uneducated people consuming trash TV basically believed all the crap they were told (also some movies were filmed "based" in the incident). I remember my neighbours were really concerned because we played "that kind of games" and asked my mom if it was "safe". I think we had just started playing Vampire back then (after years of LOTR and Rune Quest, I never played D&D myself), and my mother was really amused with that kind of question (she said to one of them "vampires don't exist, you know that, don't you?"). I guess we were tagged as "weirdos". I'm not sure my parents really understood what was all about, but I remember my dad saying "that must be good" because we could spend 4 hours reading books, tables, and filling forms just to make a character. I guess he saw himself doing his tax return and our game looked pretty much like that ;).