I was playing during the 80s, while this was going on.
A couple years ago I wrote a book-form adventure module and I still felt the "what will the crazies think" stigma...and my writing was about plants, not demons.
I was too young in the 80s, but the lingering effects were still there in the 90s when I became aware of D&D. There were always rumours circulating in our small town church about other people who lived in the town and (sacrilege!) played D&D. It took until age 13 or so before I realized it was just a game and not some sort of actual demonic secret society.
But I did also get booted from my church a few years later for using a Ouija board, so I suppose that distinction (being only a game of imagination) was not relevant to the adults.
Pivot: did you ever publish that module? Can you post it? :)
Feel free to self promote in this sub -- just be transparent about it :). We're tiny, and the signal to noise ratio is irrelevant at this point -- more content is better than less content. There are other D&D or ttRPG communities forming on other servers, so the likelihood of this one shaking out as the primary community in the long term is above zero, but still quite low. At a minumum, it'd be interesting to get some insight into the self-published RPG content community and might spawn some fun discussions -- even if it's just me ;)
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FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 3y
I was playing during the 80s, while this was going on.
A couple years ago I wrote a book-form adventure module and I still felt the "what will the crazies think" stigma...and my writing was about plants, not demons.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 3y
I was too young in the 80s, but the lingering effects were still there in the 90s when I became aware of D&D. There were always rumours circulating in our small town church about other people who lived in the town and (sacrilege!) played D&D. It took until age 13 or so before I realized it was just a game and not some sort of actual demonic secret society.
But I did also get booted from my church a few years later for using a Ouija board, so I suppose that distinction (being only a game of imagination) was not relevant to the adults.
Pivot: did you ever publish that module? Can you post it? :)
FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Search for The Green Cauldron on DriveThruRPG. :)
I also have a generic fantasy resource book there called Fantasy Game Town Hooks, if you're interested!
Hard copies of both are going to stores in the Vancouver area soon.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Nice! I'm not in Vancouver, nor do I run a game store in Winnipeg which can stock things. But I did find you on DriveThuRPG. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/325376/The-Green-Cauldron -- and the thumbnail version looks great!
Feel free to self promote in this sub -- just be transparent about it :). We're tiny, and the signal to noise ratio is irrelevant at this point -- more content is better than less content. There are other D&D or ttRPG communities forming on other servers, so the likelihood of this one shaking out as the primary community in the long term is above zero, but still quite low. At a minumum, it'd be interesting to get some insight into the self-published RPG content community and might spawn some fun discussions -- even if it's just me ;)