I didn't play any RPGs when I was a kid, although I wanted to.  I actually bought a Dungeons and Dragons set, but since I didn't have anyone to play with, I just used to roll up characters and PRETEND that I was playing (insert tragic violin music here).  My parents were never worried about the kind of things that clearly terrified other parents; they even bought me a ouija board -- we never talked to anything through it, so eventually I gave up and put it back in the closet.

What I do remember was when the Mazes and Monsters movie came out, a lot of my friends' parents started asking them, "You don't play that Dungeons and Dragons game, do you?"  Of course, these were some of the same parents who were worried about their kids coming with me to a laser show at the Hayden Planetarium because they were afraid that the lasers would shine into our eyes and blind us.  Meanwhile, my mom was a Rona Jaffe fan, and we had a copy of the Mazes and Monsters novel on one of our bookcases in the living room.

My parents were overprotective in many ways, but NOT, for some reason, about things that many parents considered scary or dangerous.  That's why I was allowed (and even encouraged) to have D&D and even a ouija board, why they would watch Chiller and (God help me) Motel Hell while I was in the room, and why for one brief shining moment I was elevated to "cool" status when I was one of the only kids in the schoolyard who'd been allowed to watch the Gargoyles TV movie the night before.