RPGs being linked to murder...

[Ukyo the undead]

What I heard was that the girl in Ouro Preto was murdered by a drug dealer that happens to play Vampire.

The "Vampirism" book was a Vampire: the Masquerade book.

The girl was mudered in a cemetery. But Ouro Preto has more cemeteries than you can count, the city is filled with small churches, and each one have a cemetery in the "backyard( I dunno if its the right term)". A lot of people use the cemeteries there to make small, private parties.

RPG books are not age classificated(sp?), per si. Depends of the content, and the legality of this classification is dubious, but nobody cares to argue the illegality, since nobody really apply this law. Sad, but true.

 

[Psion]

Just when I thought I had escaped all "D&D is for satanists and murders" business, I meet a girl in a college class of mine last week...

Last year, a couple that we used to play with FINALLY found a babysitter so they could both play the game.

Then be babysitter found out that the reason that they needed a sitter was because they wanted to play D&D, and the sitter stopped coming.

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

I completely blame RPGs for my current situation - they had a major role in my downfall:

• Wall St. Trader
• Married 8 years to a beautiful, wonderful wife.
• Father to wonderful 18 mos. old daughter.
• Owner of ludicrously-priced NYC real-estate.

DAMN YOU, RPGs! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

Got a good price for your soul, eh?

 

[Klaus]

MonsterMash -> They're age-classified, like movies. The thing is, it usually takes too long for the government comittee to decide on an age classification (and you need to present the final product). So most publishers slap a generic "14 or older" seal on their products and if the comittee eventually decides on a higher age, they just produce stickers with the new age and send them to distributors. The Brazilian edition of the Counter Collections, for instance is ages 14+!

Berandor -> "Minas Gerais" means "General Mines", as in gold mines. But hey, that was a good one!

Aust Diamondew -> Probably a -2 profane penalty to all rolls...

Zander -> I'd be very interested in hearing from CAR-PGa, even the YahooGroups

Ukyo -> Isn't it weird that you must be 16 to buy Vampire: The Masquerade, yet anyone can buy a book on witchcraft (Livro de São Cipriano, for instance) or a martial arts manual? BTW, glad to see another brazilian gamer here!

 

[Dr Awkward]

Zander beat me to it.

CAR-PGa Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/car-pga

Contact Paul Cardwell, CAR-PGa Chair, directly at carpgachair@yahoo.com

- DocAwk

 

[Nisarg]

RPG books are not age classificated(sp?), per si. Depends of the content, and the legality of this classification is dubious, but nobody cares to argue the illegality, since nobody really apply this law. Sad, but true.

If brazilian RPG age classffication laws are anything like Uruguayan anti-drinking laws then its pretty much a given that any toddler could buy Vampire.

But seriously, the mere fact that Brazil has this kind of law is disgusting to me. There's something seriously wrong with the Brazilian government's lack of respect for civil liberties (not just because of this law, but for their smoking law and other social engineering laws). What year did this "RPG age limit" law come into effect?

Nisarg
Thank god I live in the "land of the free": URUGUAY!!!

 

[Li Shenron]

Frankly, anyone that seriously believes a person would have her sister killed or anything close because she lost a game, doesn't sound like a person that should work as an investigator at all... Quite unlikely a motive for violence, unless all those people involved were outright crazy.

While it's possible that a game that tells fantastic stories of battles with monsters and cosmic evil can fascinate people with a pathologic weakness for dark themes, and the same people may be fascinated as well by satanism and violence, it seems to me very hard that it could be the cause of that instead of the effect.

 

[Breakdaddy]

...Probably the satan worshipping was a more important aspect in the situation than the Vampire RPG...

You think???!!!

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Last year, a couple that we used to play with FINALLY found a babysitter so they could both play the game.

Then be babysitter found out that the reason that they needed a sitter was because they wanted to play D&D, and the sitter stopped coming.

We had a sitter freak out when she found out we were going to Ren Faire. That was about six years ago. Apparently (and thank God she informed us, because we had no idea), Ren Faire was for people who worship satan. Glad I knew that before I went.

Wonder what she'd do if she found out we took our kids there last year?

 

[Greatwyrm]

You know, in 15 years of gaming, I actually have yet to meet a satanist. I've met catholics, protestants, jews, muslims, agnostics, atheists, and pagans, but not a single satanist.