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.

@Kalshann
I was playing D&D back then, too. Didn't have a problem until the early '80s, when the woman who was in charge of our college campus grille band us from playing D&D (actually it was "Call of Cthulhu", but she didn't know the difference) in the back room at the restaurant.

She was the head of a small local cult of, I kid you not, snake handlers. Fortunately The campus administration told her she had grotesquely exceeded her authority, so we continued playing our games.

I also helped the Committee To Defend Role-playing Games (or whatever it was called), by sending them a videotape I had made of Pat Robertson claiming that role-playing games were all cases of demonic possession, and showing a bunch of teenagers burning their role-playing books.

@Quasit
Yeah, Pentecostals are sometimes... odd. The more insular churches can be very narrow minded, but the more outgoing ones are really progressive. Never understood why.

CoC not being recognized is kinda a tell isn't it?

Christian: "This is of satan!" [points at picture]
Player: "Um no, this is Nyarlathotep, much worse!"