D&D second edition cleaned up the game's act, for better or worse
Sanitised and standardized
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As wholesome an activity that playing D&D generally is, it’s still a game rooted in brutal combat systems, twisted monsters, and magical spells, which all garnered a lot of negative publicity in the 1980s at the height of the Satanic Panic in the US.
In 1989, TSR Inc released Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Second Edition. It came six years after the launch of Advanced D&D, and after D&D creator Gary Gygax …
