Though it possibly seems, two decades into the new millennium, a relic of ye olden times to imagine hysterical Christians praying for the depraved players of a game brought to the Earth for the sole purpose of luring innocent children into the hands of the devil, in the 1980s and even into the early 1990s there remained a significant stigma attached to Dungeons & Dragons.

One of the early motivating factors for my personal interest in Dungeons & Dragons was a cousin of mine, ten years older than I am, who owned most of the original hardcover books—by which I mean Advanced D&D, before the onset of editions.