ABSTRACT
Dungeons and Dragons, a complex role-playing game manufactured by Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, has grossed millions of dollars since its creation in 1974. It was estimated to be the favorite pastime of more than 3,000,000 people at the peak of its popularity in the early 1980s. It became best known to rank-and-file Americans, however, due to the criticism it has received from various authority figures, particularly evangelicals. News coverage accorded the game included the following items:
one group forced it out of the summer recreational program of a Sacramento suburb
a minister in Hutchinson, Kansas, expressed a wish to collect enough money to buy up and burn every copy of Dungeons and Dragons he could uncover
