I worked in mental health for years..do you have any idea of how many suicides they tied to D&D?..Lots of breaks with reality too...Now we can say these were not stable folks to begin with.That may or may not be true..but the game pushed them over the edge..
Alright, stop right there. You cannot tie a suicide to a boardgame anymore than you can tie Columbine to a gun show. To say that a game pushed them over the edge ignores what led them to the edge in the first place. A lot of the kids I know who played D & D came from divorced families and many more came from troubled homes. Can you tell me where an effort to prevent suicides would help us in the long run? Banning books and/or board games or trying to
Somne kids need an escape like we need vacations. It's hard to take a vacation from your parents while rooted in reality.
I understand that 100% of all suicides also wore shoes at one point....shall I burn my Nikes?