That TCG Blogger

Read this article first please:

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1233150

The details on the crime:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/15/crimesider/entry6209793.shtml

Now, lets just take a moment and think. The murderer, Amy Bishop killed her brother with a shotgun (which is being claimed by the defendant as an accident) and a board game caused her to want to do this? First of all, I’m not going to dispute whether or not she committed the crime and such, I’m just a bit concerned. Concerned by the fact that our law system is willing to easily take a stab at an innocent game just because they refuse to do the research on the game itself to see if it really would cause incidents like this to happen. The evidence is right there in the article, the murder weapon was a shotgun. If it were really a killing based off the famous board game wouldn’t it be something more medieval like a battle axe , sword, dagger, etc? Second of all, I’m going to point out the fact that the article itself isn’t a reliable source, no self respecting person would use the quote : “They even acted this crap out”, especially in a professional setting.

Why does it seem that Dungeons & Dragons gets attacked more than any other board game? Popular media tends to also attack this game by its portrayal of its fans in such a negative fashion, thus leading to the stereotype of “nerd”. Perhaps its because they can’t understand the game. The fact that you have to imagine yourself as someone else seems kinda of unreal, especially at the time of the game’s release and as many great creations they are first avoided by society until spread like a virus. With the whole idea of becoming someone else, the average person could come to believe that these role-players start to lose there sense of reality in doing so, especially when they happen to stumble upon a tournament center. What really irks me is that these investigators misjudge the players intelligence, all because they are playing a game. After all, we know that it is only a game.

This article got me thinking back to the whole Grand Theft Auto video game fiasco that happened a few years back. If you don’t remember (and I don’t see how one could forget), thousands of complaints were sent to Rockstar Games based on the violence, language, and sex in their games that younger children were witnessing and enacting. The main argument was that kids should not see this graphic material because they would in fact re-enact it in real life (the crimes, sex, and violence) and become menaces to society. Now, based on basic psychology teachings the most influential person in a young child’s life is their parents, this is for everyone at the beginning of their lives. The only reason one would be influenced to do things based on a video game is because they were neglected by their parents to begin with. The fact that that they were slaying dragons with their level twenty mage or hijacking a car in order to stop a drug war in a fantasy world matters not, it all comes down to the parents and how they were treated early on in life.

-That TCG Blogger-

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