So, what you're saying, is that serial killers are drawn to D&D instead of D&D turning people into serial killers?I've found that the marginal people I've met while role playing started as marginal personalities.
So, what you're saying, is that serial killers are drawn to D&D instead of D&D turning people into serial killers?
Maybe for our bodies, but what about our souls and minds? Not counting Satan's influence, those DMs that are sociopahts migh like psychological torture and/or have power over other people. Can we trully consider ourseles to be safe?Close. What I'm saying is that marginal personalities are marginal personalities, whatever way that they choose to express it. If they're predisposed to enjoying RPGs, then that's what they'll gravitate toward. If they like hockey then they'll be that guy in the adult league who constantly and unnecessarily spear and trips other players. If they really like money, then they'll go out and violently mug people for it.
Out of options like that RPGs seem the safest, for the rest of us.
Maybe for our bodies, but what about our souls and minds? Not counting Satan's influence, those DMs that are sociopahts migh like psychological torture and/or have power over other people. Can we trully consider ourseles to be safe?
Please consult this 'documentary' for all of your soul-saving needs
[video=youtube;LADLv1803Vw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LADLv1803Vw[/video]
Never as the RPG scene been so realistically rendered.
Writing shortly after D&D creator Gary Gygax’s death in 2008, Slate’s Eric Sofge decried the game’s “endless hobgoblin holocaust," where “emotionally complex story lines are window dressing for an endless series of hack-and-slash encounters."
“There is an implication in these games, an assumed logic, that you are killing a bad thing,” Spear explains. “They—orcs, goblins—tend to be presented with snarling mouths and they’ll act in immoral ways; I doubt you’d ever walk up to a goblin cave and find two loving goblins lying in bed. I think that is more about an underlying assumption that it’s morally fine to kill a bad thing within that world.”