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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x258)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Suicide and D&D - hogwash!
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 15:56:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 15:56:08 1985
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As a dedicated FRP and SF-RP gamer I totally agree -- we should assemble
a statistical study of the suicides in gaming and non-gaming societies.
(Wanted to do it myself for a few years now ....)

But then how about differentiating the gamers into categories by games
they play most and see what comes up :
		unreasonably silly games like Toon;
		silly games like T&T ( and AD&D!);
		bizzare, like EPT;
		"realistic" fantasy like C&S ( and RuneQuest, DragonQuest, etc.)
		horror ( Call of Cthulu (sp?));
		commics ( V&V,Champions,etc);
		Sci-fi (Traveller, Ring World, etc);
		etc.
After all, don't we all want to know how many V&V players jump off the 
roof because they can't face the fact that they DON'T have power-blast
and 18 points of invulnerability? ( I actually know a person who ALMOST
did just that....)