This is a must see for any roleplayer!!!!!

[Gabe The Gun]

Crap like this really chaps my hide!!!!!!
I dont know how to put the link on here but just go to youtube and type in
60 minuites on dnd

You wont believe the ignorance of these people! Please leave some feedback and let us know what you think.

[kato13]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbcWKWp2UE4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lN0nrrynb8

Yeah I remember that. 700 club was even worse.

Tom Hanks also played a suicidal genius DnD player in some type of "parental warning" film as well.

edit link to movie wiki page.
Mazes and Monsters

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Gabe The Gun

You wont believe the ignorance of these people! Please leave some feedback and let us know what you think.

Uf! Yes, ignorance is the appropriate word. It’s difficult to watch the video without getting worked up. Gygax himself seemed to lack the words to answer the interviewer. I can understand him. It’s difficult to answer an obvious, absurd and stupid question when the person who asks it is convinced of his/her own insight and intelligence doing so. Following the thread, we can continue delighting in the sinister consequences of roleplaying with this comic strip:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

The last frame, with the bonfire of books, looks very significant.

[pmulcahy11b]

This is why, because I played D&D in high school, I wasn't even "in" enough to be in the "out" group.

[pmulcahy11b]

I like the family that blamed their kid's death on D&D -- I think the truth was that they didn't want to look at their own family dynamic as the cause of his suicide.

The interview reminds me of something Fox News would come up with.

[kota1342000]

I remember this well LOL!!
Personally I never did see the point in getting worked up about RPGs like this, and from personal experience I think T2K gave me help with my math, creative skills, writing, and probably most of all; geography and politics. I just laugh at stuff like this anymore.
...and Paul is right, though I think we can go a step further. It isnt just parents who are clueless, it could also be drug use, social situations at school, or other reasons like mental instability, which I think is the most misunderstood.....
.....actually ignored health problem in the United States.
Heres an example. Anyone play Vampire or Werewolf? Wow. Pretty serious background study involved in the game, but pretty dedicated players too. In fact I was part of some astoundingly large live action games, one in Carlsbad CA where the GMs needed portable radios and we used several blocks of public streets for play area. Players much more into the game than me even dressed up, and Im not talking about just a cheap cape, I mean pretty serious make-up and SFX you would expect to find in hollywood. Carlsbad PD knew about the game and was actually pretty supportive.
Now cut to a few years later when Im yakking with some Vampire players who were doing the same thing in Boulder CO. Turns out on of the players was a meth-head who had dropped some acid, and had climbed up in one of the decorative trees on the Pearl St Mall as an ambush position. Never mind that LARPs have serious rules about actual physical contact, this dude was going to get one of the other players. Unfortunately the person he ambushed and jumped down on was a Boulder PD Officer, who promptly pounded him like a tent peg and yanked him downtown. During booking the officers found all the gaming stuff for his player and decided to shut down the LARP in boulder.
Point being is I think that RPGs are sometimes used as an excuse to point the finger towards something that people dont understand, but more importantly away from something that is obviously the problem but there is no easy answer for.