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And the most important part: she admitted she was wrong and that it's fine

This is the part where Republicans and have the biggest problems with, as in the face pf evidence they usually just double down and that's it.

I hope not people are like that. I have a coworker insists Harry Potter is "Satan". She has never read it watch a single book or movie.

it's almost like animals evolved play as a way to learn

I learned a lot of English by playing Runescape.

I would go so far as to say all of them. The whole idea of Satan is ridiculous, it's "The Boogeyman" for adults.

Good point, actually. Seems like these days, a lot of people wouldn't change their opinion after seeing what this grandma saw.

A friend calls it "narrative gambling", because eventually we're all throwing dice and hoping it doesn't "ruin" us.

Speaking as a Satanist studying computational fluid dynamics...

Need a DM?

Exactly why I dislike D&D, it's more about combat and math. I prefer systems that are less math heavy and more narrative/roleplay focused.

Could you imagine doing 666 damage in one turn? I’d be riding that high for weeks.

Why. Legibility?

Having experienced math, I’d choose satanism for sure.

It was totally a thing during the satanic panic. There's an infamous Chick Tract about d&d that I was genuinely given by cult missionaries when I was a kid.

https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

It was a real moral panic in the 80s or 90s. To be fair, it's one of the less deadly moral panics of the 90s. It got a lot of steam when a private detective was hired to find or investigate a troubled teen and found he had committed suicide, and he wrote a book about it and instead said he had become delusional after playing D&D, thought he was the fictional character of RPd and tried to do things his character could do, but killed him. Eventually enough people pointed out the absurdity of the story and people who knew the kid had grown up and made it very clear he committed suicide intentionally and was never delusional, the author then acknowledged he made up the story, but even more perplexing, claimed the teen met him before the suicide, he made it sounds like mere moments before, confessed to drug abuse, and said he didn't want his parents to find out, so asked him kindly to make up a cover story for his actual actions and motives to protect his family from, or maybe just his mom. Anyway. A lot of people took this seriously, but if you're even slightly aware of what tabletop rpgs are like is like claiming a high schooler who played too much soccer became delusional and thought he was a soccer ball, and kept trying to inflate himself until he died. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying if that did happen, playing too much soccer wasn't related to the delusional mental health disorder.

In addition to what others have said, sadly the myth persists among some people. I have a good friend who I used to play Magic: The Gathering with. I had been playing for years before I met him (since 3rd edition) and had a pretty decent collection, and he invested a lot of money in cards in the next few years.

At one point I was moving away to a place where I didn't know anyone and needed to travel light, so instead of selling my collection I gave them to him.

I ended up coming back to my home state and we became roommates. Then he became 'born again' and instead of giving me those cards back, he burnt them all.

I'm not really mad at the guy for it, he was doing what he thought was right, but I do regret giving him the cards in the first place.

I ran my school's D&D club in Highschool. At one point my Grandma came along to watch me and my Siblings while my parents were out of the house for a month and when i told her that i'd need picked up later on certain days for D&D club, she went off on this long rant about how 'D&D is satanic' and then something about how 'Obama eats babies'. To this day i'm literally shocked she believes that junk.

Pearl-clutching "christians" used to be deathly afraid of anything with even slightly negative undertones. "Dungeons? Dragons? That's the devil! Away Satan! Our children are making pacts with the devil!" Satan was historically represented by a dragon in Christian mythology.