[News] Role-player decapitated (drug addicts arrested)

[Frostmarrow]

In Halmstad, Sweden, a young role-player involved in a game of Vampire live has been decapitated. I expect this to renew the old debate of whether role-playing is dangerous.

Edit: I don't want to start any rumors. Thanks Maggan.

Edit: It turned out to be two drug addicts with long criminal records that murdered the young role-player. It was sudden: "I just flipped out... I put a knife in him."

I can't seem to find an English article.

 

[kingpaul]

Re: [News] Role-player decapitates friend

In Halmstad, Sweden, a young role-player involved in a game of Vampire live has decapitated a friend who was also in the game. I expect this to renew the old debate of whether role-playing is dangerous.

Do you have a news-link?

 

[Rashak Mani]

I hope it was all in game...

Otherwise they might think the guy is crazy.

(At least this Iraq war thing will be useful now... less media time for this piece of RPG nuts news...)

 

[alsih2o]

[News] Role-player decapitates friend

i think once you have decapitated somone you can no longer really call them your friend

 

[Maggan]

Rumor control!

This is what we as the public know at the moment:

In Sweden, a young man involved in Vampire live roleplaying and goth rock, has been found dismembered.

No one knows who did it, or even if he was murdered in the first place.

So, until we know what happened, please stay calm, and don't engage in needless spreading of rumors.

No one has implicated his friend, or friends. In fact no one has been implicated at all.

Maggan

 

[Frostmarrow]

Re: Rumor control!

This is what we as the public know at the moment:

In Sweden, a young man involved in Vampire live roleplaying and goth rock, has been found dismembered.

No one knows who did it, or even if he was murdered in the first place.

So, until we know what happened, please stay calm, and don't engage in needless spreading of rumors.

No one has implicated his friend, or friends. In fact no one has been implicated at all.

Maggan

Yes of course. Thanks Maggan. I was a bit rushed when I typed the above. The news-reporting has been a bit confused. All the articles seem to imply that the murder is connected to role-playing games. Falsely.

 

[Liquide]

Erghh why does always Role-playing get the blame for this
Just woke up and didn't know that this was the case, did know about the body parts that had appeared in the lake however.

 

[Frostmarrow]

This is taken from DN. A major Swedish newspaper:

Psykologen Christer Olsson i Uddevalla, som i flera artiklar varnat för avarter inom rollspelen, utesluter dock inte att styckmordet kan ha koppling till offrets fritidssysselsättning.

- Rollspel har som allt annat goda och dåliga sidor. För ungdomar som har svårt att skilja mellan dikt och verklighet kan våldsinriktade spel ställa till problem. Det finns spel som enligt min mening inte har något existensberättigande, säger Olsson.

The psychologist Christer Olsson from Uddevalla, who has warned about anomalies in role-playing games in several articles, does not rule out that the murder can be connected to the victim's hobby.

-Role-playing games have as all things a good and a bad side. For youngsters who find it difficult to separate fiction from reality violence-centred games can pose a problem. There are games in my opinion that lack the right to exist, Olsson says.
(My translation).

I find it in very bad taste to use this heinous crime as a springboard to further one's own views about role-playing games. Especially since no connection has been found.

 

[Liquide]

I find it in very bad taste to use this heinous crime as a springboard to further one's own views about role-playing games. Especially since no connection has been found.

Well we are a community of people that has no monetary interest in no big markets. We are the logical community to bash since it cannot bite them back.

And these things just make so bloody angry, the headlines and TV always has to find some to blame, and when it comes to role-playing it always seems interesting to connect it to murders if it is in the picture.

[sarcasm]
So what is next? Blame football or soccer players for murders since the person tat killed another person was part of a team? No that cannot be done since we all know that football and soccer players aren't evil and wanna kill other.
[end sarcasm]

 

[Frostmarrow]

And these things just make so bloody angry, the headlines and TV always has to find some to blame, and when it comes to role-playing it always seems interesting to connect it to murders if it is in the picture.

I was furious too. Now that I have calmed down I realise that it can be a blessing in disguise. If (and when) the murder turns out to be wholly unrelated to role-playing games all this free publicity may up the sales of our beloved game companies.

Will I be seeing you at Narren tonight?