Tuesday, January 26, 2010

PRISON OF ELEMENTAL EVIL: A prison ban on all Dungeons & Dragons-related materials has been upheld, and the rationale "that playing the game promoted gang-related activity and was a threat to security" was upheld as reasonable. As someone who has played D&D in the past, as a general rule, D&D players and gang members are mutually exclusive circles in the great Venn Diagram of life.

5 comments:

  1. TPE and I have been discussing the opinion all day, which is freely accessible on the CA7 website by searching for case 07-3400.  Basically, the prisoner had plenty of expert- and inmate-related evidence that there was no gang-related activity with D&D, but had no counter to the warden's averment that a Dungeonmaster *could* have power over his fellow players similar to a gang leader's, thus making this reasonable under Turner v Safley.

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  2. Squid3:23 PM

    Oh, yeah.  I'd totally shank a guy if it meant I could re-roll that failed saving throw vs Death Magic...

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  3. Joseph J. Finn5:07 PM

    Won't someone think of Black Leaf?

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  4. Anonymous5:38 PM

    What other groups are in mutually exlusive circles in the great Venn Diagram of life?

    I plan to use this awesome  phrase again.

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  5. Marsha6:42 PM

    Well, there's only one intersection point in the Great Venn Diagram of Life for "people who are breaking my heart" and "people who are shaking my confidence daily."

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