julian814 sez:
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> The main story was about a gifted teenager who went to college, then
> disappeared for a long while. According to the movie and the media hype
> at the time, the kid went crazy after playing an RPG. The real story,
> which wasn't revealed until much later, was that the kid who
> disappeared was a closet homosexual (at a time when homosexuality
> wasn't as well accepted as today), schizophrenic and cooked his own
> drugs. He didn't like himself for what he was and what he was doing, so
> he went into the steam tunnels underneath the campus to kill himself
> with sleeping pills. When that didn't work, he ran away. His problems
> had nothing to do with role playing games. The reason the truth didn't
> come out sooner is because the family of the kid didn't want such dirty
> laundry aired in public. When the kid in question finally committed
> suicide, the real story came out. Anyway, most people refer to Mazes
> and Monsters as the definitive proof that role playing games are evil,
> even though in the movie you'll notice it was the kid's guilt of
> helping his brother run away that caused him to go over the edge, not
> the game.
>
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So, basically, this is Reefer Madness, except replace pot with D&D...
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