The Truth Behind the Satanic Panic of Dungeons & Dragons

825K views • 7 weeks ago • 2:37:45 Dungeons and Dragons was the subject of more of the more widespread and vicious moral panics in recent memory. This video essay tries to explain how DnD became the target of the satanic panic. ★ Consider helping making Wild Hearth a reality: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildhearth/wildhearth?ref=7fimcr I am writing and art directing Wild Hearth myself, and it goes live the 15th of september (next tuesday!). If you'd like to support my work, consider clicking on "Notify me on Launch" to help my book become a reality. If you do, thank you so much. It really does mean the world :) Wild Hearth is a 5e and 5.5e D&D book inspired aesthetically and thematically by Zelda Breath of the Wild, Studio Ghibli, and Delicious in Dungeon. It seeks to make both combat AND downtime more exciting, with rules for cooking any DnD monster, town building mechanics, farming rules, and more! ★ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildhearth/wildhearth?ref=7fimcr ► Get Dangerous Games, the main book referenced in this essay, right here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/dangerous-games/paper (Also this is not a sponsorship lol) Thank you to those that agreed to be interviewed: ★ Doctor Elizabeth Kilmer: https://www.takethis.org/ ★ Shawn Merwin ★ Ray Winninger ► Join my mailing list if you want! Everything I've released for Wild Hearth is there and i send like two emails a month if that, i swear https://mailchi.mp/7b1846659b2c/wild-hearth_01 (check all your mail folders just in case) ► Bibliography coming soon y'all, i'm so, so tired. I reference nearly every book and article i read audibly and visually in the video in the mean time. Additional Video Editing: Skyler ADHDM @TheADHDM Writing, Illustration, and Narration by me: https://twitter.com/antodemico Video Editing by the amazing Bia: https://twitter.com/BnazF Motion Graphics by Gavin Strong: https://gavinjs825.wixsite.com/portfolio Guest Narrators (in order of appearance): ★ Ginny Di ★ Runesmith ★ XPtoLevel3 ★ Willowares ★ DingoDoodles ★ Mystic Arts ★ Zee Bashew ★ Dungeon Dudes Timestamps: 00:00 The Weather 08:03 James Dallas Egbert III 36:28 Mazes and Monsters 44:49 Interview with an Expert 52:28 Patricia 1:17:36 BADD 1:57:54 Fighting Back 2:09:38 Interviewing those that lived it 2:16:08 The Fall of BADD 2:28:40 Ending Moral Panics