I'd add in most of the satanic panic as well that leaked into the 90s from the 80s, namely their opposition to rock and metal music. Considering WotC though, they might have stumbled into something about DnD though. Wrong reasonings, but still ended up being right.
The "satanic panic" stuff was started by the Finders cult having satanic rituals with kids in a tunnel. As well as the increasing amounts of child abductions and abuse in military daycares.
All of the other stuff was to help cover up those facts.
TSR was in charge of D&D/AD&D up until the mid-late 90s, when they went bankrupt; WotC bought them out then; I was actively playing at the time. Chick tracts had been ranting about it pretty much since the original D&D box sets with the shitty blue dice were a thing.
Well, I haven't played since (TSR-owned) second edition, and I was only a player. My RPG was Werewolf: the Apocalypse, anyway. I still have that set from back in the 2e days, so I don't need to buy any more. :P
It was less that DnD was evil and more that actual occultists saw its popularity as a way to recruit. Which they do. Maybe overblown, but it makes sense.
I'd add in most of the satanic panic as well that leaked into the 90s from the 80s, namely their opposition to rock and metal music. Considering WotC though, they might have stumbled into something about DnD though. Wrong reasonings, but still ended up being right.
The "satanic panic" stuff was started by the Finders cult having satanic rituals with kids in a tunnel. As well as the increasing amounts of child abductions and abuse in military daycares.
All of the other stuff was to help cover up those facts.
TSR was in charge of D&D/AD&D up until the mid-late 90s, when they went bankrupt; WotC bought them out then; I was actively playing at the time. Chick tracts had been ranting about it pretty much since the original D&D box sets with the shitty blue dice were a thing.
Well realistically now Hasbro. So now corporate globohomo evil is involved. In addition to whatever weird Seattle hippy evil they had going on.
Well, I haven't played since (TSR-owned) second edition, and I was only a player. My RPG was Werewolf: the Apocalypse, anyway. I still have that set from back in the 2e days, so I don't need to buy any more. :P
It was less that DnD was evil and more that actual occultists saw its popularity as a way to recruit. Which they do. Maybe overblown, but it makes sense.
Magic the Gathering is innocent, though.