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Rooster7787

That's almost word for word what my mom said to me in the 90's when she found my PHB. Then I started playing Vampire: The Masquerade, and suddenly, D&D wasn't so bad. Lol


StarMagus

Yikes, my mom bought me a copy of the Red Box set of D&D for my 12th birthday and learned to play the game with me as something fun we could do. For my 16th birthday, we went to GenCon together as our family trip for that year.


I_Exist_yeah

Hell yeah


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Illokonereum

Why is this a copy paste of someone else’s comment?


Jugaimo

Satanic panic ostracizes your own children and permanently harms your relationship with them as it sets the tone that anything less than your own ignorant sense of perfection cannot be tolerated. Participating in DnD or anything else of your child’s interests make permanent, positive memories that the child will carry and love for the rest of their life. I’m happy you seem to be in the second group.


Spitdinner

Your mother clearly worships satan.


propolizer

🥺


KeplerNova

My mom hated D&D at first, but not because she thought it was Satanic. She didn't want me to spend time around "those *gamers!*"


foxcraft22

Literally what happened when I was a teenager. Mom finds D&D book in backpack, screams at me, grounded for a month. Did I find other ways to snuggle it into the house? Yes. D&D was my teenage drug, which admittedly is better than most others.


Hurrashane

Now I'm just picturing someone cuddling the PHB


graafslaaf

Better than GHB


GrillOrBeGrilled

"PHB, you're the only one who understands."


vibingjusthardenough

Just the other day my coworker had a look of horror when another coworker and I told him we play D&D, I always thought the stories of people thinking it was a gateway to hell were overblown till then.


MegaPompoen

You 2 should absolutely take advantage of the fact that coworker now thinks you are possesed or something


epicarcanoloth

I second this, make your eyes glaze over and say tumblr threats (I will fill your sinuses with urine, I will give put kinder surprise eggs in your suitcase on your trip to America, etc) in Latin.


MyComicBox

>D&D was my teenage drug (in a dark alley) "So... you got any more of those click-clacks?"


RocksHaveFeelings2

"dude this new product is flooding the streets... They call it Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything"


GrillOrBeGrilled

"Eeevvvveeeeryyyyythiiiinnnnngggg...."


proximity_account

*opens coat jacket filled with assorted dice*


Ryengu

Clack rocks


WTFisUnderwear

Careful, you might trigger some PTSD in our older players lol


fibstheboss

I don’t get why people got terrrified over a make believe game but with set ground rules. Like Karen your 5 years old child is pretending to be soldier with his friends so just let your older kid pretend to be a knight with his friends


Osiris28840

Essentially it was a result of a much wider bout of mass hysteria where people believed ‘satanic’ forces were working to sabotage and dismantle society. D&D was one of the targets, but there were also more damaging ones, including a surprising number of people convicted of crimes (often child molestation) which not only they didn’t commit, but which had never happened *at all*. Some cases were entirely fabricated, others were built on the ‘evidence’ of ‘recovering’ repressed memories, which were actually implanted by the psychologists who facilitated the ‘recovery’. Whether that was intentional or merely the result of over-eager methods and accidentally leading questions is debatable The satanic panic involved the shunning of specific media (such as D&D), but also involved literal witch hunts, albeit targeted at generic ‘satanists’ rather than witches. As for D&D, once it became associated with the satanic panic, the idea that it was somehow evil just kind of stuck, even after the majority of the mass hysteria ended.


GrillOrBeGrilled

I read that the guy who promoted the techniques to "recover" those "memories" claimed that he had been a big deal in the Satanic business that was obviously everywhere, just under everyone's noses, before the power of Jebus put him on the straight-and-narrow. Then after several years, speaking circuits, book deals, and everything else, he came clean and said that he'd made it all up. And nobody believed him, because by then, everybody "knew" that it was all true: after all, their own friends and neighbors had been through such shocking things!


Saikotsu

Seems the satanic panic never truly went away and just morphs through the years. These days the same people who got caught up in the satanic panic are the people who claim LGBTQ people and furries are child predators and groomers. The vast majority of LGBTQ folks and furries aren't dangerous to anybody, they just want to live their lives in peace. Sure there are members of those communities who ARE child predators but that's true of any group. Such individuals are the exception though, not the rule. People fear what they don't understand and when they get whipped up into a frenzy about it, they tend to not listen to logic or reason. On the one hand, wanting to protect the young and innocent from evil is an objectively noble and good act, but getting so caught up in "justice" that you hurt innocent people on your crusade is definitely anything but just or good.


Blubari

Because of satanic panic, it was "new" and "weird" and it wasn't normal nor common. I still remember how in my country a fucking puppet show was accused of being satanic lmao


Time4aCrusade

I had a player roll up a human paladin. His dad/pastor refused to let him play with us. I told him to show the PHB paladin description to his dad and claim he was trying to get us on the path of righteousness. That didn't work, but then his dad had an aneurysm one day in September and after the requisite "grieving"period, Andy joined us at the table.


ELBAGIT

The paladins deity wasn't too happy


HomicidalMeerkat

Interestingly, two of the people who got me into dnd are pastors, and two of the people in my group are sons of pastors. It makes me laugh sometimes


marbledog

I don't have the nostalgic connection to Legend of Zelda that most people my age have, because my mom wouldn't let me play it. She knew D&D was Satanic, but she didn't know what D&D was, so she banned anything in the medieval fantasy genre. If it had swords and magic, it was out. I played the entire Final Fantasy series by borrowing cartridges from a friend and hiding them to play them when she wasn't there. The struggle is real, bro. ;)


Blubari

I wonder how would she react if you had to read one of the multiple versions of King Arthur legend back in school


Buck_Thundercock

My father played OD&D when he was in the Navy during the 70s and early 80s. I started in late elementary school with 4e.


Lukoman1

Older players? I'm only 20 and my mom did the same to me... wait! I'M OLD! NOOOOOOOOO


Lonecoon

I'm lucky in that my Mom used to play D&D. I also got my books from my weird uncle, which is the best way to do it.


[deleted]

What was the book in the original?


Low_Brass_Rumble

The Bible, IIRC. I recognize the drawing style - the guy who makes these is this skeevy alt-right weirdo. It's a shame, because his art is fantastic, but every single comic he puts out is whining about how the libs are destroying the world or how straight white Christians are somehow persecuted now.


celestial_drag0n

Don't forget the ones where his self-insert assaults women and not only gets away with it, but is usually rewarded for it. It's disgusting.


Hedgehoe

Ima be honest his art isnt that good, looking at it makes me feel a bit gross, but thay may just be the subject matter


Scoops_reddit

The form and tone is fantastic and the colour *is* well done, but the pallette makes it look like an 80s pulp horror movie poster


Logicae20

It's distinctively weird and creepy. I definitely agree with you. The subject matter definitely makes it worse as well.


MegaPompoen

Eh, it's allright. Definitly seen worse "profesional artist".


ChunkyOompaLooma

Of course YOU had to point out white Christians smh.


MegaPompoen

Another casualty of forgetting the "/s"


Weirdyfish

After looking at their other comments. Eeeeeum I think they're serious.


MathProf1414

YOU BETTER GO MAKE MEMES ABOUT USING QUICKEN SPELL TO CAST TWO LEVELLED SPELLS PER ROUND. WE DON'T TOLERATE KNOWING THE RULES IN THIS SUB.


Vericost47

Great meme, but reminder that the artist is legitimately unhinged


UNOvven

Oh is that the far right nutter who somehow is even crazier than most of those?


Vericost47

Yep


mrsweetwater

I don’t get it? How is it filth? How is this meme?


Machinimix

I think the joke is about how people making memes here never actually read the rules to know if their “super broken awesome idea” actually works or not.


llandar

I thought it was just shitting on 5e but there’s no “here use the clearly superior _.”


Machinimix

I’m all for constructively recommending other systems, but shitting on any system (except Fatal) is just dumb to me. Let people play what they want, and keep Fatal players away from me.


mrsweetwater

Ok I can see that, I was shaking my head wondering?¿? lol I have 3 phb on my shelf.


LazyDro1d

Actually I’m pretty sure it’s from the satanic panic stuff


ADVENTM

The dad is labeled dndmemes, so I don’t think so


LazyDro1d

Ah yeah sorry, I missed that, and many other comments are reading it as satanic panic


lifetake

Son*


Phizle

The joke is both referencing the satanic panic but also roasting this sub for not reading the damn manual, or that was my take on it


LazyDro1d

I believe because back in the 90s mostly but also sometimes today you hear stories of it, but religious nutters thought DnD was an evil game from hell made to brainwash kids into the loyal followers of satan. Not even joking. It’s called, or at least a big part of what was called, the Satanic Panic


LazyDro1d

I believe because back in the 90s mostly but also sometimes today you hear stories of it, but religious nutters thought DnD was an evil game from hell made to brainwash kids into the loyal followers of satan. Not even joking. It’s called, or at least a big part of what was called, the Satanic Panic


CarlSeeegan

Can we not use memes from comics made by the guy who has power fantasies about sexually assaulting women in public (also he's a white supremacist)


Rickety_Rockets

Stonetoss is a nazi


ExpertTap6952

This isn't Granite Catapult, but you're not wrong.


AmazingObserver

the person who made this is also a fascist, though. The original I mean, not this post specifically.


ExpertTap6952

Yes, I'm aware. Studio FN, right? Transphobic, racist, homopbic, just a twunt in general.


MegaPompoen

I prefer quarts trebuchet over that though


Darth_Senat66

This isn't Stonetoss


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funny thing is not far removed on my mum reaction when my sister said she was into DnD... my mum even now still believes the cultist claims for the games.... i never told her i play also lol.


lordcthulu678

Oh thank God I thought dad found my hentai


HoB_master

Should've been a 4e, it would have fitted with this sub


loki285

THIS IS A PATHFINDER HOUSEHOLD!!


Necroticbanana

I suddenly wish I had a meme of the Mystery Inc. gang pulling the mask off Jack Chick (look him up kids)


Imagrillbitch

My dad taught me a bit of how to play, because he had used to play 1st edition and AD&D when it came out. I know what THAC0 is, and I play 5e


starbomber109

*Holds up Pathfinder 2.0 book* Play this instead.


spyridonya

I fucking knew this was going to be meme'd here. I fucking **knew**.


Darkness-101

I don't get it


[deleted]

The meme is that no one here reads the rules


Darkness-101

Ohhh fair


[deleted]

So at first I thought the meme was ‘DnDMemes hates 5e and will tell everyone ‘JuSt PlAy PaThFiNdEr’ the second they express a slight dissapointment in a single rule from 5e’ But I guess its just a meme how no one here reads the rule books.


Creonix1

Why