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Society & Culture · Moral panics

Dungeons & Dragons became the focus of a moral panic in which critics linked the game to Satanism and the occult. Claims that playing Dungeons & Dragons caused occult practice, criminal harm, or suicide remain disputed across partisan and historical accounts.

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