> But in the 1980s the game came under an extraordinary sustained assault from fundamentalist religious groups who feared its power over young minds.
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> Pulling described D&D as "a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings".
It could be said that the source material for the religious groups contains far worse stories. I wonder if the irony was lost on the people back then.