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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by pessimizer on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:37PM (#30645687)
GW must have specifically designed the Warhammer RPG/canon to match the nightmares of religious parents. When we found it, we were done with D&D. Now we had a table to roll on to find out specifically what our critical hit did to the enemy in gory detail.
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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by unfocussed_mike on Friday March 11, 2022 @04:00PM (#30645951)
Warhammer (and to some extent the Fighting Fantasy universe) was also funnier -- more irreverent, bleaker humour, more provocative. Anyone who was offended by the content was doubly offended by the trolling.

While one of my secondary school teachers was telling us we were dabbling with the occult, another (a beloved english teacher) enjoyed the imagination of it and wanted to be taught how to play Chaos Marauders so that he wouldn't lose to his nephew.

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