[net.games.frp] 700 club vs. D & D

speegle@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Charles R. Speegle) (08/23/85)

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All this discussion about whether D&D can cause you to commit
suicide has reminded me about a little piece of video a friend
of mine recorded.  We named it 'the 700 Club vs. D & D', basically
the 700 Club takes aim at role-playing.  It's kinda funny since
they didn't do much homework.  At the beginning the host refers
to it as 'Demons & Dragons'.  Either way there is a reference
to a suicide in Florida(?) and the parents are shown.  The boy
commits suicide because his father tells him he can't play
D&D anymore.  They(700 Club) tries to blame it on the game.
Either way it's funny, at a local convention I showed it and
the audience treated it like a melodrama(booing and hissing).
If anybody is interested in possessing a copy send me e-mail.
Machine format doesn't matter.  I think he also has a copy
of the show when they attack comic books also, but I haven't
seen it.

                      Charles R. Speegle      (Charlie)
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jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) (08/26/85)

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Up here in Canada, we have a 700 Club equivalent called 100 Huntley St.
and they occasionally do anti-D&D tirades.  My friends who run the local
game store say that such shows are incredibly good for business: parents
ask their kids what the story is, the kids explain and show how it works,
and the next thing you have is a hooked adult.

What you lose on the snakes, you gain on the ladders.

				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo

P.S.  I also suspect that there is a backlash effect from "reasonable"
parents who are miffed at the fundamentalists and will do anything to
spite them.