[iansales]

Many years ago, I was a member of a role-playing group in my home town of Mansfield. We'd meet every Sunday afternoon at a youth centre owned by the local parish council, and play Dungeons & Dragons, Runequest, Traveller, Pendragon, stuff like that... One Sunday, two blokes turned up, and told us they were going to ask the parish council to refuse us use of the room because role-playing games were "bad for our spiritual well-being". Even though they'd expected to find a bunch of sixteen-year-olds celebrating black masses, but instead found a bunch of twentysomethings playing, on that particular day, a WWI aerial combat wargame with small model biplanes on sticks... they still insisted it was for own good. We argued against them... but they got the group banned from the youth centre. In hindsight, we should have thrown them out, and then reported them for harrassment. But, well, we were role-players not satanists...