Another D&D killer outed

[Stoney Mason]

When will they finally ban this game and stop you nerds from killing us normal people?!

Suspect in slays fan of ‘Dungeons’
By Laurel J. Sweet

Accused campus killer Amy Bishop was a devotee of Dungeons & Dragons - just like Michael “Mucko” McDermott, the lone gunman behind the devastating workplace killings at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield in 2000.

Bishop, now a University of Alabama professor, and her husband James Anderson met and fell in love in a Dungeons & Dragons club while biology students at Northeastern University in the early 1980s, and were heavily into the fantasy role-playing board game, a source told the Herald.

“They even acted this crap out,” the source said.

When questioned about it yesterday, Anderson, 45, a research scientist in Huntsville, Ala., dismissed the egghead escape as “a passing interest. It was a social thing more than anything else. It’s not the crazy group people think they are.”

McDermott studied engineering at Northeastern in the late 1980s, but Anderson said he never met him. Police seized two Dungeons & Dragons books from McDermott’s Haverhill apartment after he shot seven co-workers to death on Dec. 26, 2000.

The popular fantasy role-playing game has a long history of controversy, with objections raised to its demonic and violent elements. Some experts have cited the D&D backgrounds of people who were later involved in violent crimes, while others say it just a game. A federal appeals court recently upheld a prison ban on the game in Wisconsin, where prison officials reportedly testified they were afraid the game could promote “hostility, violence and escape behavior.”

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

[Phoenix Dark]

Wasn't she also obsessed with Obama? No wonder liberal blogs are avoiding this like the plague

[Ichirou]

LEFT WING LOONY

[Eric P]

this makes me so (rolls d20) (consults chart) happy

[Joe Molotov]

I remember when that guy shot up the Jew Museum in D.C. and all of sudden it's like OH NOES CONSERVATIVE GUNMEN ARE GONNA KILL US ALL, SAVE US OBAMA-JESUS! Sounds like Harvard intellectuals are the true threat to me.

[Great Rumbler]

D&D blamed in a murder? Did I just fall through a time warp back to 1982 or something?

[Phoenix Dark]

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[Ganhyun]

D&D blamed in a murder? Did I just fall through a time warp back to 1982 or something?

Seriously. We ALL know that anything can be taken too far by people.

People get obsessed with certain things. For some its sports, others D&D.

[Eric P]

with me, it's ironic miniature trucker hats i put on my penis for my website dicktrucker.tumblr.com

[Great Rumbler]

[youtube=560,345]ogrwfW1rsA4[/youtube]

[tiesto]

I searched for more information on this and turns out I stumbled upon an article by a girl who went to elementary school with me, now writes for the Boston Herald (not the one in the OP article). Still pretty fucked up, I went to Huntsville a few years back and stayed right across the street from UAH.

[The Fake Shemp]

with me, it's ironic miniature trucker hats i put on my penis for my website dicktrucker.tumblr.com

[demi]

with me, it's ironic miniature trucker hats i put on my penis for my website dicktrucker.tumblr.com

page doesnt exist 

[Brehvolution]

with me, it's ironic miniature trucker hats i put on my penis for my website dicktrucker.tumblr.com

Do you have the 'Karate Sluts' one? That's my favorite.

[tehjaybo]

with me, it's ironic miniature trucker hats i put on my penis for my website dicktrucker.tumblr.com

 

[Lone]

“They even acted this crap out,” the source said.

Best thing I've read in the last couple hours. 

[Ganhyun]

“They even acted this crap out,” the source said.

Best thing I've read in the last couple hours. 

Sup Lonestar? You didnt get banned at GAF did you?

[T234]

Oh shit it's lonestar!

Tell karakand that I now feel bad for ragging on the NAIA conference known as the Pac-101.

[Ganhyun]

2 books doesn't even come close to being d&d obsessed.  smh.

Seriously, one of my friends has EVERY 3.0 and 3.5 book there is as well as every WOD book. 

I'd say hes a bit more obsessed than this guy was.

[Ganhyun]

should I die this way I will try to haunt each and every EB member at least once or twice, possibly more.

[demi]

should I die this way I will try to haunt each and every EB member at least once or twice, possibly more.

Dont come around between the hours of 2-3am

[The Fake Shemp]

Oh, he'll cum around.

[Tauntaun]

I see what you did there.

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[tehjaybo]

Responsible journalism at its finest!


By the way, what do you think her stats were, guys?  Clearly she's a Smart hero, picked up some Firearms Proficiency, probably had a pretty low BAB, but clearly she's good in the surprise round.  Anyway, shotguns do a flat 2d8, maybe a little more at point blank range... hold on, we can stat out these encounters pretty quick.  Not sure about the xp, either, since the targets were unarmed and way below appropriate CR for her level...

Oh god... can't breathe....   

[Joe Molotov]

2 books doesn't even come close to being d&d obsessed.  smh.

Seriously, one of my friends has EVERY 3.0 and 3.5 book there is as well as every WOD book. 

I'd say hes a bit more obsessed than this guy was.

Does he ever "act this crap out"?

[Stoney Mason]

This is what happens when you play D&D.

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[Ganhyun]

Erotic hauntings, or otherwise?

I think you know 

Dont come around between the hours of 2-3am

I'll try to fit to your schedule. 

Oh, he'll cum around.

  Oh yea baby

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Does he ever "act this crap out"?

He used to be a Live Action Roleplayer, but hasn't done that since his college years.

Responsible journalism at its finest!


By the way, what do you think her stats were, guys?  Clearly she's a Smart hero, picked up some Firearms Proficiency, probably had a pretty low BAB, but clearly she's good in the surprise round.  Anyway, shotguns do a flat 2d8, maybe a little more at point blank range... hold on, we can stat out these encounters pretty quick.  Not sure about the xp, either, since the targets were unarmed and way below appropriate CR for her level...

 

[chronovore]

My first thought was that this was some nowhere, podunk rag trying to generate hits on the internet by poking the geek hornet nest. Then I noticed it's an arguably legit paper. What the hell? Everybody knows the current, correct target for moral panic is videogames.

[Eric P]

I have a game this sunday.  I'll try to see if any of them are mad killers

[Ganhyun]

I have a game this sunday.  I'll try to see if any of them are mad killers

if they are distract them with a well timed mountain dew aggro.

[Stoney Mason]

I have a game this sunday.  I'll try to see if any of them are mad killers

You act this crap out!?

[The Fake Shemp]

"Online music critic slays ten at release party for Radiohead's new album, police cite Dungeons & Dragons live-action roleplay as main influence."

[Eric P]

I have a game this sunday.  I'll try to see if any of them are mad killers

You act this crap out!?

Yes, let me tell you about my character...

[Phoenix Dark]

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[Great Rumbler]

"But that stuff's all just imagination!"

"IS IT?"

Kinda makes you think, don't it?