In the 80s instead of fighting DnD the US Government funds the creation of an sci fi alternative

Would this be fun idea for an alternative Satanic panic timeline.

An intelligent attractive athletic moderate Republican with military experience who is a fan of the original Star Trek and Starship Troopers who wants geek culture to be accepted on the same level as sports and NASCAR pushes for the creation of an alternative to DnD to appeal to the American mainstream. He also pushes for tougher anti bullying programs in schools.

The RPG protagonists would be American soldiers in space armor
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who fight communist aliens and robots from oppressing the good aliens.

The goal of this RPG would be to promote US space exploration as well anti racism and anti communism.
 
If the idea is that it would appeal to the people who were otherwise paranoid about RPGs being satanic, you'd need to keep this game completely free of any magical motifs. All extraoridnary powers would need to have a sci-fi, rather than fantasy, background.

And even then, some people would probably read something sinister into it. Remember, there were Christians who were upest about C.S. Lewis' Christian metaphors, because of the witches and talking lions.
 
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