Mastodawn

When I was a teen the D&D satanic panic was in full swing.

I often had game books with me, and got the obvious response for it.

Most of it was yelling or being told I'm going to hell, but this was adults yelling and screaming in a 14 or 15 year old's face.

I only got attacked - I think three times. Once throwing rocks and a baseball bat, once an adult punching me at a Waffle House (got told I was always welcome by the staff though), and my pastor hitting me and kicking me out of church.

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Mycotropic

@Kalshann

Same here, 80's man, the fucking 80's. Luckily we had a friend with a house that was unoccupied by others or parents so we had free run of the place, D&D started Friday after school and ended Sunday night (with some #RockyHorror for breaks!). School was weird though, 83' wasn't so bad, but by '87 when Geraldo did his thing on TV we heard from friends that D&D books were forbidden in our school.
At least we got #MazesAndMonsters out of it!