Old Toby (Fictional)

[kagalive]

The magical pipe-weed from J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. I think this one would be a hit with fans of the series.

[Trance750]

I would like to 2cd this.

[SadLittlePony]

WIZARD SMOKE! My character in DnD has some herb that his old friend (who was a wizard) gave him after saving his town from the immediate threat.

[Trance750]

WIZARD SMOKE! My character in DnD has some herb that his old friend (who was a wizard) gave him after saving his town from the immediate threat.

Ok cool. A D&D chick. You don't see too many of those.

[SadLittlePony]

Ah well you just arent in the right circles.

[Trance750]

Ah well you just arent in the right circles.

Sadly I live in the Bible Belt and people think if you play D&D you're automatically a Satanic. Texas for the most part are very closed minded and are so repressed, they're afraid of their own shadow

[idoser]

And interesting HOW DD got such a bad rep to begin with:

The most famous case was that of James Dallas Egbert III, a child prodigy who was attending Michigan State University at age 16. He died in the steam tunnels beneath his University. The media largely sensationalized his death, talking about how D&D corrupted an innocent youth, a genius, a beacon of hope, etc. etc. and that he entered the steam tunnels because he lost touch with reality and thought he was going into a dungeon.

This was not the case. Egbert had battled depression for much of his life, largely due to intense academic pressure from his parents and teachers. He was also seriously bullied, and had no friends at MSU because he was too young to drink and MSU is famously a party school. He had a drug addiction too. He wasn't much of a D&D player, but the media latched on to it as the explanation for his disappearance into the tunnels- in reality, he entered the steam tunnels knowing that it would be hard for anyone to find him there, and he brought a bottle of methaqualone with the intention of killing himself. He failed, left the tunnels, and fled to a friend's house.

Regardless, the media loved the sensational story and pushed that forward, interviewing a lot of Christian groups who were anti-D&D because the early D&D rule books featured some topless women in illustrations and had demons listed in the bestiaries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_% ... troversies

[Trance750]

And interesting HOW DD got such a bad rep to begin with:

The most famous case was that of James Dallas Egbert III, a child prodigy who was attending Michigan State University at age 16. He died in the steam tunnels beneath his University. The media largely sensationalized his death, talking about how D&D corrupted an innocent youth, a genius, a beacon of hope, etc. etc. and that he entered the steam tunnels because he lost touch with reality and thought he was going into a dungeon.

This was not the case. Egbert had battled depression for much of his life, largely due to intense academic pressure from his parents and teachers. He was also seriously bullied, and had no friends at MSU because he was too young to drink and MSU is famously a party school. He had a drug addiction too. He wasn't much of a D&D player, but the media latched on to it as the explanation for his disappearance into the tunnels- in reality, he entered the steam tunnels knowing that it would be hard for anyone to find him there, and he brought a bottle of methaqualone with the intention of killing himself. He failed, left the tunnels, and fled to a friend's house.

Regardless, the media loved the sensational story and pushed that forward, interviewing a lot of Christian groups who were anti-D&D because the early D&D rule books featured some topless women in illustrations and had demons listed in the bestiaries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_% ... troversies

The Religious Right always need to hate something. It was just a convenient scapegoat