When fantasy role-playing first arrived in the UK in the late 1970s with Dungeons & Dragons, not everyone received it with open arms. Ian Livingstone, who brought the game to the UK before co-founding the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, remembers well the response from parts of the religious community.
“When the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks came out, the Evangelical Alliance published an eight-page warning guide about them saying, ‘Because you’re interacting with ghouls and demons, you’re bound to get possessed by the devil.’”
