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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] It's Canon: Baldur's Gate 3 Brings D&D To The Vatican
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:37:22 -0600
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Top post. First off, please knock it off with the non ANSI characters.

I've never had so much trouble posting a reply.

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:32:27 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Kyonshi wrote: 

>On 11/15/2024 1:11 AM, Justisaur wrote:
>> On 11/14/2024 10:55 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
>>> Kyonshi  <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> At any rate, it is ironic see D&D go from Satanic Panic to being
>>>> installed somewhere in the Vatican in just a few short decades. Never
>>>> let anyone tell you who you are.
>>>
>>> I'm sure D&D was played in some form in the precincts of the Vatican
>>> long before Baldur's Gate 3 was released.  Maybe even during the time
>>> when the Satanic Panic thing was raging in the US and to a lesser extent
>>> the rest of the English speaking world, but not so much in Italy.
>> 
>> I don't know that it was Catholics going after D&D.  BADD was 
>> popularized by evangelicals - specifically the TV kind.  Jack Chick was 
>> was some very weird offshoot of Baptist.
>> 
>
>And I think D&D was too niche back then to even touch some area like 
>that (which is after all just the size of a small town, even in the 
>middle of a metropolis), especially as a lot of inhabitants of the 
>Vatican city are elder professionals.
>
>One would have to look up when DnD was released in Italian maybe.

All I know, and excuse me if I'm repeating this story for the 19th time,
is that my Irish Catholic grandmother bought me a first print 1e *Deities
& Demigods* for freaking Easter. I asked for it, and she was all "Yup."
So no, I don't think her priest was railing against Satan in D&D.

-- 
Zag

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