"Ami Silberman" wrote in message
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Well, you know next to nothing about D&D. What are some of these "real
consequences for innocent bystanders"? Other than occasional soft-drink
spills and a penchant of gamers to fail to clean up after themselves, I
can't say that I've seen any. (All the "Satanic Murder" stories etc. have
been pretty well debunked.) I've seen as many people drop out of school or
disrupt their love lives with bridge, model rocketry, and sports as I have
with role-playing games, and I've been playing them for close to 30 years
now.


Hey, I think I gained weight playing D&D.. That's one side effect.

As for those "Satanic Murder" stories go... as my grandfather pointed out
15-20 years back... just because screwed up people play D&D doesn't mean D&D
caused them to be screwed up. He realized that correlation is not
causation.

Actually, I think my aunt and uncle and my cousin's friend's parents should
thank me for introducing their kids to D&D. Where else would they have
learned about some of the concepts of ecology, physics, math, logic, etc
that I introduced into the game.


Ami Silberman wrote: