Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: D & D : 60 Minutes 9/15 (the 'F' stands for *fantasy*) Message-ID: <1174@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:16:52 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1174 Posted: Mon Sep 30 13:16:52 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 07:32:08 EDT References: <271@pedsgd.UUCP> <535@tymix.UUCP> <1972@hcrvax.UUCP> Distribution: net.games.frp Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 > > 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 ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j Silly quote: "There are a few off-the-wall extremists, who are shunned by us moderates." - Don Black