Editing Moral panic (section)

==== ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (1980s–1990s) ====
{{Main|Dungeons & Dragons controversies}}

At various times, ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and other [[tabletop role-playing game]]s have been accused of promoting such practices as [[Satanism]], [[witchcraft]], [[suicide]], [[pornography]] and [[murder]]. In the 1980s and later, some groups, especially [[Christian fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] Christian groups, accused the games of encouraging interest in [[Magic (paranormal)|sorcery]] and the veneration of [[demon]]s.<ref name="panic">{{Cite journal |year=2005 |title=Role-Playing Games and the Christian Right: Community Formation in Response to a Moral Panic |journal=The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture |volume=9 |pages=3 |doi=10.3138/jrpc.9.1.003 |last1=Waldron |first1=David|hdl=1959.17/44257 |url=https://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/services/Download/vital:919/DS1 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Laycock |first1=Joseph P. |title=Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds |date=2015 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-28492-0 }}{{page needed|date=August 2022}}</ref>