One of the most important resources for a roleplaying game player today is the Pulling Report by Michael A. Stackpole. This comprehensive analysis of how RPGs were unfairly linked to the suicide of a certain Irving Lee "Bink" Pulling on June 9, 1982 (wow, I was just about to turn 2 years old then... anyway).
This spurred his mother, Patricia Pulling, to take up a massive disinformation campaign to destroy the hobby's credibility to the market, and painting RPGs (and gaming in general) in the worst possible light.
Her influence is still felt today, with every headline dedicated to associating the hobby with demons and evil.
*sigh*
Not that she's the only one. There are also others... like our favorite comic book Propagandist, Jack Chick, author of the popular tract of sheer unadulterated ignorance and paranoia knowns as Dark Dungeons.
It warms my heart to see that Catholics have had a chance to review his work and come up with a suitable, respectful and decent answer to his work regarding a myriad of issues. What scares me is that these Chick tracts are being sold in a certain local school.
Anyway, that's it for today's dose of reading. I hope that the links I've put up will be something that will enlighten and educate, though I've got a fire extinguisher ready in case I get flamed for it.
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For the record: Jack Chick is not the zealous religious madman he appears to be - he is a different kind of madman entirely ;)
Chick is a Discordian. All his tracts are satire (although he'd never admit to that).
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