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| kismetrose | May 18 2007, 02:27 PM Post #1 |
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I found a number of newspaper articles during my research for my section on the controversy over roleplaying games. I have provided links to each of these articles on this page of my site (just scroll down). I know they were of great interest to me and might be of interest to other gamers (and other children of the 1980s). |
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| cambric | May 18 2007, 03:40 PM Post #2 |
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These bring back memories!! My dad had read where the kids killed or committed suicide and he didn't want me to play. I remember saying, "Dad, they probably played monopoly and got sent to jail and that sent them over the edge." He wasn't amused. That was a point I tried to make, on a serious level, that they could have played ANY game, but because D&D was 'open ended', which I refer to games that don't have any defining rules, people took it that they played satanic worshipers. I remember Mazes and Monsters! Enjoyed the movie, but didn't hear the end of it for a while from my dad, he was worried I was going to go over the edge on it. I finally set him down and showed him the books, how we played, etc...and he actually backed off once he realized we were playing 'good guys'. Interesting articles Kismet, and strangely, enjoyable. I don't know exactly why...maybe the memories of the discussions I had with my father, who is now deceased. I do remember watching the news one evening and they had the woman who ran BADD on there and she just was raving about how terrible D&D was and I thought, "She's a fruit cake," but I guess ignorance breeds those types of people. Cam |
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| PillBox | May 19 2007, 09:39 AM Post #3 |
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I remember an article I read while living in south africa in a newspaper about Satanists. Apparently, to be one you had to :
Funny how they did not mention anything about what being a Satanist was. A few months after that I moved out of the town I was living in. Around a year after that a Soldier turned up on my doorstep, asking my mother questions. A friend of mine that I used to play D&D with in the old town I lived in went missing. Well, they figured that I had kidnapped him because I played D&D ... Was pretty strange, but the cool thing was that my mother called them weirdos! |
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| suffer4love | May 19 2007, 04:31 PM Post #4 |
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What I want to know is, where are they playing these games??? Because the games they are talking about are a helluva lot darker than anything I've played currently. Perusing a religious website, they described some of the "typical D&D setting details" thusly:
This material was (barely) written by William Schnobelen and the whole article can be found here, but this was enough for me... I am going to make a list of these elements to incorporate into my next D&D game! Maybe add a little Cthulu-style monster action, and the players will be running home cryin' for their mammas! |
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