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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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Bullstalin. Earlier reports on this case had authorities saying that it was escapism and should not afford them relief from their imprisonment.
Prisons are A-OK with racist gangs and even Wahabist recruiting in prisons. Racial disharmony keeps the inmates hostile at one another rather than the guards and other staff.
I’m sorry, but that’s 4e, and therefore not D&D, but rather “WoW, the RPG”.
"He further testified that fantasy role-playing games like D&D have “been found to promote competitive hostility, violence, and addictive escape behavior, which can compromise not only the inmate’s rehabilitation and effects of positive programming, but endanger the public and jeopardize the safety and security of the institution.”
Abin Sur? Jeez, a guy named Dan played a D&D character by that name with our group back then!
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Even funnier if you read it with a Comic-Book-Guy voice.
LOLOL!
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