Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)
by dragonwriter on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:16PM
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> I think some folks confused Dungeons and Dragons with Lovecraftian role playing games that were popular at the same time.
No, the latter were never anywhere close to as popular; the deliberate propaganda was targeted at D&D because it was fringe enough that people wouldn't know it was lies and popular enough that it would have impact.
> Those were demonic.
No, they weren't (the in-game fiction may have been, but that was often true of D&D which was like an order of magnitude more popular than anything else in the TTRPG market at the time of the Satanic Panic.)
In fact, using the Lovecraft mythos in D&D, for which it was written up, was more popular than the purpose-built games.
> D&D was ultimately based on Lord of the Rings, so there were demons in it. But it wasn’t demonic in the Cthulhu sense.
D&D was pretty distant from LotR, and had the Cthulhu mythos literally started up in one of the major supplements.
No, the latter were never anywhere close to as popular; the deliberate propaganda was targeted at D&D because it was fringe enough that people wouldn't know it was lies and popular enough that it would have impact.
> Those were demonic.
No, they weren't (the in-game fiction may have been, but that was often true of D&D which was like an order of magnitude more popular than anything else in the TTRPG market at the time of the Satanic Panic.)
In fact, using the Lovecraft mythos in D&D, for which it was written up, was more popular than the purpose-built games.
> D&D was ultimately based on Lord of the Rings, so there were demons in it. But it wasn’t demonic in the Cthulhu sense.
D&D was pretty distant from LotR, and had the Cthulhu mythos literally started up in one of the major supplements.