Okay, so it’s not really anything to do with comics, but I am perversely fascinated by this story:
While the media has occasionally scapegoated adventure gaming and small time Savonarolas like Jack Chick and “Dr.” Thomas Radecki regularly castigate Dungeons & Dragons as dangerous and satanic, the lawyer for a Detroit man accused of slashing a co-worker to death with a homemade samurai sword may be the first barrister to come up with a “D&D defense,” claiming his client was a psychotic schizophrenic obsessed with D&D. “He played Dungeons and Dragons and was obsessive with games of fantasy,” the attorney was quoted as saying. “He became his fantasy. He was a ninja doing an honorable thing.”
Personally, I think that the Chewbacca defense may be called for here.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Dear God – the 80s have returned. Perhaps a bad and misleading movie can be made about this incident with Tom Hanks in the lead role.
October 31st, 2006 at 9:02 am
Ah, but what version of D&D was it?
Did he have to roll 3d6 to see if he could hit this co-worker? (What’s the AC of a co-worker anyway?)
November 1st, 2006 at 8:10 am
Wouldn’t that be the “paranoid schizophrenia defence”?
November 1st, 2006 at 5:26 pm
This defence was tried in the late 80′s in a murder case Tasmania and given the short shrift it deserved. Check out http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Roleplaying/RoleplayingMyths.html amongst other sites.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Oh man I cant believe this, the 80′s are back!! Wow I remember this old game from my youth. All I got now are a few TSR modules and dice, post its, dry erase magnetic board, flash cards, etc, etc. That’s about as much I can remember, (oh yea pizza and beer) I’ve played this game back in the old days when it first came out.
January 17th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
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