Being called a "Heretic" and a "Cultist" in the Indonesian TTRPG scene

In this blogpost, I will share my experience as an Indonesian TTRPG player who have been referred to using these two religious terms with negative connotations: a Heretic and a Cultist. Painting by Francisco de Goya, "The Inquisition Tribunal." HERETICThe year was 2018. I joined an Indonesian D&D Discord community. My first Indonesian player found it and said we should join, so we could find more players to play with. At that time, I was craving to run Call of Cthulhu, since I know the people in that community are only familiar with "the world's most popular roleplaying game." I checked the rules, asked the mods, and I was allowed to run a Call of Cthulhu one-shot. I ran The Haunting. I posted the LFG post. Got my players, but also complains. The active, "senior" members of this community were furious that I promoted a non-D&D game in a D&D-centric server. They called me and my players "HERETICS." They reported me to the mods. The mods said I didn't break any rule, since there were no…