Playing Defense: TSR, the Satanic Panic, and the Price of Survival: The Rpg Gazette (opens in new tab)

The Satanic Panic has emerged as one of the most popular of origin myths for the hobby. Nowdays it usually tends to take the form of a comic tale, involving gullible parents, self-interested evangelists, naive journalists, and a game company whose survival of a decade of hostile attacks can only be