tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post4501030864124972102..comments2024-03-28T06:20:47.668-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: "No Game is Worth Dying For ..." James Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-91132883478759107192022-08-20T09:06:14.736-04:002022-08-20T09:06:14.736-04:00"D&D was being used as a smoke screen to ..."D&D was being used as a smoke screen to avoid the real issue of unhappy kids getting their hands on their parents' guns." <br /><br />That argument is as specious as the about about D&D being the cause. Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206151361332220038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-86043082057470299692022-08-18T16:14:05.300-04:002022-08-18T16:14:05.300-04:00The sad irony of the 60 Minutes piece is that all ...The sad irony of the 60 Minutes piece is that all the suicides they covered were caused by guns owned by the children's guardians, & guns have nothing to do with D&D (except brief reference to Boot Hill in the DMG). The kids didn't kill themselves with daggers or swords; if they had, the story may have had a point. Instead they overlooked the 800 pound carnivorous ape in the room & missed the real story -- the side effects of the 2nd amendment that is front & center in our politics right now. D&D was being used as a smoke screen to avoid the real issue of unhappy kids getting their hands on their parents' guns. Syonchoviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01584115011076738639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-69070780002556527612022-08-18T14:02:01.415-04:002022-08-18T14:02:01.415-04:00Egbert is such a tragic figure in RPGs.
If Egber...Egbert is such a tragic figure in RPGs. <br /><br />If Egbert was the various things that he's purported to have been: a queer, depressed, autistic, self-medicating, engineering genius with relentlessly ambitious parents, it seems notable that D&D provided him the solace and community that would otherwise be hard to find for a shy 16 year old alone at Michigan State. I'm obviously not the best person to talk abut RPGs and that sort of pressure, but that Egbert's life descended into even more tragedy when the hobby/community was taken away from him it might not be a coincidence, even if it's at most one factor of many. Kask's editorial hits the right tone even if it's largely trying to protect the hobby, but it does show real concern for a fellow hobbyist, and I hope Egbert got to read it.<br /><br />In retrospect the satanic panic, BADD, and all that nonsense look like such a frantic reaction of distinctly 1980's fear-based fundamentalism and Reaganism to the reality of contemporary (at the time) cultural and change - pure reactionary deceit. This of course becomes an even stranger irony given the religiosity of most of D&D's designers and the basically wholesome nature of a hobby that's sitting around with friends and making stuff up.<br /><br />Someone should set up a James Dallas Egbert III Memorial Award for RPG design or something.Gus Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872819206286105195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-84791904470308789802022-08-18T11:25:17.934-04:002022-08-18T11:25:17.934-04:00I'm very much a gamer, but I can't think o...I'm very much a gamer, but I can't think of a game worth dying for.Corathonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453135801686019143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-518847495908883072022-08-18T02:39:28.628-04:002022-08-18T02:39:28.628-04:00haha there's definitely games worth dying for....haha there's definitely games worth dying for. not D&D, for sure, but I think you're setting the bar too high Captain Crowbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11959402382179885595noreply@blogger.com