Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-ngp.UTEXAS Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!speegle From: speegle@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Charles R. Speegle) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: 700 club vs. D & D Message-ID: <2281@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 15:39:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.2281 Posted: Fri Aug 23 15:39:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 00:47:08 EDT Distribution: net Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 22 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** 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) -)------ ------(- Let's argue over a point ;-) ARPA: speegle@ut-ngp.ARPA UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4!seismo,seismo}!ut-ngp!speegle