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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: D & D : 60 Minutes 9/15  (the 'F' stands for *fantasy*)
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:16:52 EDT
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> 
> p.s.	anyone out there that actually played in the tunnels beneath
> 	UofM ?  care to tell us about those games ? - jrs

      Presuming that when you say 'actually played in the tunnels', you
don't mean that they took their books, dice, pencils, lights, pillows,
munchies, mapping board, etc. into the tunnels to play an frp game, I'll
assume you mean that they dressed up, wandered around darkened tunnels,
etc.   But if they did that, then they weren't playing a fantasy role-
playing game, were they?  The 'F' stands for *fantasy* - the game is all
in the players' heads.  In a lot of the cases of teen suicide which have 
been published, it sounds as though the people involved were playing a
*real* role playing game, rather than an frp game.
      Some people (especially 60 minutes reporters) seem to have an
awfully difficult time discerning the line between fantasy and reality.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    Silly quote: "There are a few off-the-wall extremists, who are shunned
                  by us moderates." - Don Black