<story><title>How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband</title><url>https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/padk7z/how-inmates-play-tabletop-rpgs-in-prisons-where-dice-are-contraband</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>There was a widespread moral panic over D&amp;amp;D back in the 1980s. A lot of Christians sincerely believed that D&amp;amp;D was a recruitment tool for satanism. Well into the 1990s, many evangelical groups were producing materials warning that D&amp;amp;D inevitably leads to witchcraft, murder and suicide.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ATUpSPj0x-c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ATUpSPj0x-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;when-dungeons-dragons-set-off-a-moral-panic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;when-dungeons-dragons-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>dfee</author><text>Do you think this is a representative sample or a bizarre situational experience?</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>D&amp;amp;D and similar have a really negative reputation in some circles, including religious groups.&lt;p&gt;I was a gamer in my teens. One younger member of the group was probably being given a hard time by his religious family for being a gamer. He was often absent from gaming sessions.&lt;p&gt;The weekends he was absent consistently included stories like a drunken car wreck, and now he has a broken leg, or a wild party where some gal says he is the daddy and he has no idea if he even slept with her.&lt;p&gt;I never could fathom why his family didn&amp;#x27;t just tell him to go gaming every weekend. We fed him free food, used no drugs or alcohol and drove him home safe.&lt;p&gt;But we were Satan worshippers, I guess, because we gamed.  ¯\_(ツ)_&amp;#x2F;¯</text></item><item><author>Notorious_BLT</author><text>I guess I can understand the dice ban (sort of?) but the fact that some prisons have apparently have banned games like D&amp;amp;D altogether is bizarre to me. It seems like a healthy, relatively peaceful way to pass time and do something creative. I can&amp;#x27;t see it having a negative effect that other prison activities don&amp;#x27;t already make possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fifer82</author><text>Damn I really wish I could title the book, it is on the tip of my tongue but I read the same thing.&lt;p&gt;What I found abhorrent is that the people interviewed in that book, ended up being prescribed meds by good professional Christian Doctors using all means to change their paths from evil. To avoid D&amp;amp;D as it was the devils work.&lt;p&gt;I would say that those parent&amp;#x27;s were mentally ill and&amp;#x2F;or uneducated and that the doctor&amp;#x27;s were mentally ill and&amp;#x2F;or uneducated.&lt;p&gt;Alas, religion.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband</title><url>https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/padk7z/how-inmates-play-tabletop-rpgs-in-prisons-where-dice-are-contraband</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>There was a widespread moral panic over D&amp;amp;D back in the 1980s. A lot of Christians sincerely believed that D&amp;amp;D was a recruitment tool for satanism. Well into the 1990s, many evangelical groups were producing materials warning that D&amp;amp;D inevitably leads to witchcraft, murder and suicide.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ATUpSPj0x-c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ATUpSPj0x-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;when-dungeons-dragons-set-off-a-moral-panic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;when-dungeons-dragons-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>dfee</author><text>Do you think this is a representative sample or a bizarre situational experience?</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>D&amp;amp;D and similar have a really negative reputation in some circles, including religious groups.&lt;p&gt;I was a gamer in my teens. One younger member of the group was probably being given a hard time by his religious family for being a gamer. He was often absent from gaming sessions.&lt;p&gt;The weekends he was absent consistently included stories like a drunken car wreck, and now he has a broken leg, or a wild party where some gal says he is the daddy and he has no idea if he even slept with her.&lt;p&gt;I never could fathom why his family didn&amp;#x27;t just tell him to go gaming every weekend. We fed him free food, used no drugs or alcohol and drove him home safe.&lt;p&gt;But we were Satan worshippers, I guess, because we gamed.  ¯\_(ツ)_&amp;#x2F;¯</text></item><item><author>Notorious_BLT</author><text>I guess I can understand the dice ban (sort of?) but the fact that some prisons have apparently have banned games like D&amp;amp;D altogether is bizarre to me. It seems like a healthy, relatively peaceful way to pass time and do something creative. I can&amp;#x27;t see it having a negative effect that other prison activities don&amp;#x27;t already make possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Yes, this was in the 80s. I&amp;#x27;m old.&lt;p&gt;Thank you.</text></comment>