They use elves to recruit.
Posted on 01/27/2011 3:39:00 PM PST by Abin Sur
If you're an orc or a wizard, you'd better keep your nose clean.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit weighed in Wednesday on a matter of grievous import to the nation's prisons: Dungeons & Dragons. And the Court's ruling was bad news for naughty nerds nationwide, concluding that the innocent-seeming board game was inviting trouble.
The case brought before the Appeals Court argued that D&D inhibited prison security, because "cooperative games can mimic the organization of gangs and lead to the actual development thereof." And therefore Kevin T. Singer, a long-time dungeon-explorer sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for bludgeoning and stabbing his sister’s boyfriend, was denied access to his magical staffs and pieces of gold.
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How many Crips played D&D? That could explain all the drive by spells...
They should be stuffed into dungeons, not playing them.
LOL. Are they going to use RICO to shut down WoW? Can’t wait to see the DOJ tweak out over the Alliance and the Horde.
This is silly.
I guess chess is out, too.
Horde FTW!!!
LOL.
I would think the most popular character class is....Thief.
I guess chess is out, too.
-Well so long as it isn’t “Klein Chess” right? (sarc)
D&D is not a board game.
Does a gang of pencil necked geeks forming behind bars really frighten prison officials? I would think D&D nerds in prison SHOULD pack together for safety.
And on the subject of a “spell casting drive by” I think one of the D&D books showed a scene that was like that, guy “driving by” on a horse, of course....
So much for youth athletics.
They use elves to recruit.
Who made Pat Pulling a judge?
Only nerds are responding to this thread.
Wait, what?
As a side note, never let it be known in the geek/nerd community that you protect your weak geek friends, especially if you are 17, 6'2” and 185 lbs. You will become the Nerdfather...
“Don Nerdleoni, I come to you to ask this favor....”
“I will grant you this favor, and ask only that some day, and that day may never come, you do a favor for me....”
I can understand the judges position from two points.
1. You’re in prison. You lose every right when you commit crimes, except what the prison allows. If you’re in prison, your time should be spent on useful things so can become a productive citizen when you get out. If you want to have fun, keep out of prison.
2. I can see how a gang could use a roleplaying map for their benefit. Their territory or their target’s territory could be adapted to look like a dungeon map or forest map or something like the map of a kingdom could really be the city of Los Angeles. It would be a useful tool for a gang to send information to their cohorts outside the prison wall.
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