D&D Jihad: People Who Are Unwell

[Belen]

One anecdotal point for me:

In the 1990s, I was a member of a gaming group for about 4 years, and didn’t figure out one guy was a militia member (IOW, probably into white Christian Nationalism) until right before I moved out of town.

He was never rude to me, but he was also never friendly. I didn’t have a problem with him, so I didn’t force anything. We had an unspoken truce for reasons I didn’t fully comprehend until we’d never meet again.

The hardcore Christians I grew up around would never have touched D&D. I learned about D&D from this Christian kid who presented an 8th grade English paper about how it was evil, I had to try it.

I grew up near Camp Lejeune so I gamed with a lot of Marines when I was younger and always have at least one former military person in my groups.

I have never needed to kick someone for poor behavior although I did quit 1 group due to a guy that screamed at his wife and sent her crying to the bathroom.

 

[dbolack]

There are some deeply unwell people on X. I mean that seriously: there are men--all men--who are nutzo about BROSR. I mean...it's hard to describe the vitriol these dudes spew about anyone who doesn't agree with them. We are talking Christian, far right-wing looney tunes in the game space. There is an entire ecosystem of deeply malignant actors who have an interconnected web of X accounts, podcasts, and Youtube channels seemily all dedicated to spreading hatred about role playing games. Role playing games! All of the horrors of the world going on, and these dude are spreading pools clotted midnight about people pretending they are elves.

Brethren, I am astonished. What a toxic hellscape.

Are you that surprised about a domain that's a dogwhistle?