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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] It's Canon: Baldur's Gate 3 Brings D&D To
 The Vatican
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:41:29 -0800
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On 11/16/2024 5:42 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:50:34 -0800, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 
>> On 11/15/2024 12:37 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> I'm pretty sure it was an American phoneme.
> 
> LOL. No, ethnically Irish. At the time we had Irish and Italian Catholics
> in America. She was definitely an American.
> 
I meant the whole "D&D is a satanic cult" thing was American, not that 
playing D&D was only American.

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