“In before people that don’t know anything about it denounce it as evil.... maybe.”
You bet it is evil, just ask anyone in the mental health profession during those years. :o) It was crazy that rational adults went nuts if teenagers were playing that game.
I had a counselor at a state agency which I won’t name, send me a young man who she thought was deranged - he played that bad Dungeons & Dragons game and sometimes he dressed in Renaissance clothes (you know, kings, queens, knights, etc.). I was supposed to psychologically test this young man and find out why he was “mentally ill” and then counsel him to make him well.
He was the most fun patient I ever had because nothing was wrong with him. Yes, he played that game, so what? Texas has a “Texas Renaissance Festival” (kings, queens, knights, etc.). This young man was one of those who helped run this festival. He wasn’t crazy, he was promoting that festival when he wore those clothes. I wrote the report and sent it to the counselor so he was now officially sane.
The festival time was upon us and he invited me and my husband to go and he would show us around. We went and had a good time.
The festival is huge now. Here is their website and directions how to get there. You come to my town first and go from there to the festival if you live anywhere near Houston and south of there or north up 45, come to my town. Directions are on their website.
Rest easy, you are not nuts to go to the festival dressed as a knight or queen and you’re not nuts if you play the “evil” game Dungeons and Dragons.
I've known people who spend their weekends fooling around with little white balls. They have these weird looking bludgeons that they use to whack the balls with, and then they chase the balls around the landscape. Some seem to have fun, others tend to indulge in temper tantrums after whacking the ball.
Real strange bunch. You should look into them.
My now-husband and I and our various roommates used to work the Texas RenFest back in the late 1980s. Good memories. I never cared for role-playing games - I preferred poker and cribbage - but he was into it for a while.
Milady, as one who has not only played many a game of Dungeons and Dragons in the course of my life, but likewise worked at that same Texas Renaissance Festival in years gone by, I thank you for the "counselling" you gave that young man.
While, sadly, those days a far behind me now, I remember them with nothing but fondness...
the infowarrior