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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 4446427" data-attributes="member: 151">Even Later: November 1978.&nbsp; And the San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre was in 1984, not too long before this (the first 'postal' mass murder would take place in 1986, after this report).&nbsp; So there were plenty of precedents of crazy in the air.Very true.&nbsp; That was, in fact, a major selling point of the game.&nbsp; It was a very nerdy thing.&nbsp; D&amp;D players had to expand their vocabularies to follow Gygax's writing, expand their knowledge of history to appreciate the setting and ideas and improve their math to understand game theory.&nbsp; D&amp;D promoted a lot of good educational qualities, which is why it showed up in schools as often as it did.But stuff like this '60 minutes' report are why players of my generation are still somewhat hesitant to admit we play D&amp;D to folks we don't know that well, yet.&nbsp; It's just a conditioned reflex.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 4446427, member: 151"] Even Later: November 1978. And the San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre was in 1984, not too long before this (the first 'postal' mass murder would take place in 1986, after this report). So there were plenty of precedents of crazy in the air. Very true. That was, in fact, a major selling point of the game. It was a very nerdy thing. D&D players had to expand their vocabularies to follow Gygax's writing, expand their knowledge of history to appreciate the setting and ideas and improve their math to understand game theory. D&D promoted a lot of good educational qualities, which is why it showed up in schools as often as it did. But stuff like this '60 minutes' report are why players of my generation are still somewhat hesitant to admit we play D&D to folks we don't know that well, yet. It's just a conditioned reflex. [/QUOTE]

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