RPG prohibited in Brazil?!?!?! aka. Dumb people around the world

[Ron]

I think that there is no way we can avoid the age classification of RPGs in Brazil. That's not that bad, as a matter of fact Vampire and other WoD games already have something like suggested to mature audiences printed in the cover. Aso, all my fellow Brazilians knows that this sale restriction will not be properly enforced, so there are not that many changes ahead. The problem is that RPG are being associated with satanism and so on. This is a major problem as it will be very difficult to get rid of this image.

 

[Illuminae]

Aso, all my fellow Brazilians knows that this sale restriction will not be properly enforced, so there are not that many changes ahead.

read my signature

AUHEUAHEUHAUEHAUHEUAHUEAHUE!!

 

[Lothaire]

Well you really can't say that the RPGs don't warn you. Let me post the disclaimer from the Vampire core rule book for you all to see.
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The Inevitable Disclaimer
Vampire: The Masquerade is a game. It's a game that requires imagination, effort, creativity and, above all, maturity. Part of maturity is realizing that Vampire is only a game and that the situations depicted in these pages are strictly imaginary. If you beat someboady at Monopoly(TM), you don't foreclose on their house. If you sink someone's Battleship(TM), you don't go down to the Navy Yard and start throwing Molotovs at the boats. THe same principle applies to any roleplaying or storytelling game.

In other words, you are not a vampire. When a game session ends, put away the books, pack away the dice, enjoy the rest of your life and let other people enjoy theirs.

For the 99.9999+% of you who are sufficently well-adjusted not to need such a ridiculous disclaimer, have fun.
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That seems above all reproach to me. Legally no one should be able to blame them in any way.

 

[Voneth]

The thing is, RPGs are so obscure here that they don't really have an image outside the nickname "Crazy Game".
a newspaper. It's a WAY of telling a story, not a STYLE of story.

But hey, the brand new magazine on Tolkien down here said on their cover that JRR Tolkien is the "Father of RPG". But then again, they said that dark elves came first in Records of Lododss War, and not in DnD, so...

Sounds like one of us Northern people could make some quick bucks being an editor for one of these mags.

 

[Illuminae]

When I posted this thread I forgot to write why Im calling these people dumb, instead of just "misinformed".

their arguments are so, so flawed, that their low IQ rating can be detected right away.

On another incedent last year, where a 10 year old girl was killed by a unknown man, and the police managed to blame the goth kids AND the rpg players in town, one of the arguments they used to say that rpg was "evil", was that , supposedly, the GURPS basic described things like how to choke someone to death (ant remeber if this the right verb in english for such thing, maybe it is "to suffocate" someone?) and it even has DRAWINGS in it , as if the book was some kind of manual about how to kill in 100 deifferent ways.

Well, the thing is, they got the books, read it, read things like "to suffocate someone you have to state that youre character is doing it and then throw 3d6 and if the number you got is higher than the STR score of the target your character did it bla bla bla" and their brains are so nut-sized that they just couldnt comprehend a simple text written about RULES of a GAME...

aiaiaiai....

 

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

The irony of things like this never cease to amaze me. A social worker suggested that I try rpg'ing as a kid to get rid of my more violent tendancies (they have something to do with why I'm nicknamed "Conan") and it worked. If anything, using rpgs as an outlet helped socialize me and so I would find such instances as this to be humorous if they weren't so damaging to our beloved hobby.

 

[Lordmon]

Yes, but the mayor lies. RPG was prohibited in Vila Velha, a Brazilian big city. Thiago (the RPG player from the story) is going to see what happened, today.
If you see the RPG section at Brazilian bookstore, you will think you are seeing the horror section. 90% are Gothic Horror. It is dificult to explain that RPG are not demoniac/murder that way...

Fabiano.


"In Vila Velha (a town in yet ANOTHER state, some 400 miled from Rio), the local coucil prohibited stores from selling RPGs. A local RPGer heard of this and contacted one of the 3 council members who voted against such prohibition. She said that the motion to ban RPGs had to be vetoed by the mayor, and then the council had to approve the veto. Then the motion would be cancelled. She suggested that the RPGer gathered his friends and came to th next open session of the council, to represent RPGers in general. And so he did.

When the coucnil met again, he was there with over 50 friends who played or were simply sympathetic to the cause. He talked to all 3 members who originally voted against the ban, and then went to each of the other member (some 20 or so) who voted for the ban. Most admitted that they had never even heard of RPGs before voting the ban, so they voted out of ignorance. By the end of the day, that RPGer managed to sway over 15 of the members into voting against the ban after the mayor vetoed it. His next step would be a meeting with the mayor to exlain what RPGs really are and convince him to veto the ban. "