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[HAMMERMILL]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27dungeons.html

So the ban on D&D in US prisons has been upheld.

Apparently the authorities see D&D as a threat that would cause gangs to form and likely inspire prisoners to "level up" by gaining "EXP points" IRL from shanking imates with their "+2 daggers".

You suppose they can still play home brew paper+pen games? Seems like you'd have a lot of free time to do some awesome campaigns when locked up in the joint for years at a time with the same handful of players.

So what do you guys think? Is it unnecessary and silly to oppress nerds in prison and a violation of rights? Or a rightly justified and deserved curbing of freedom?

[smigenboger]

This *may* be under a clause for the same reasons you cannot use cards to gamble, or create divisions in games other than sports.

[dragnar]

I feel the need to add this to the discussion:

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[Akroma]

you may still play games that use normal 6-sided dice


make a homebrew.




I mean hey, you have aaaaall the time in the world, what keeps you from homebrewing the stuff

[Gunner-Chan]

I randomly got the idea of prisoners playing Maid RPG.

I laughed my ass off.

[ToonyMan]

I feel the need to add this to the discussion:

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I laugh every time I see that.  Oh god the second panel.

[Davion]

I personally don't see the harm in allowing it, being a nerd.

But I can also step back and see how that can be abused by a population of inmates.

Regardless, there's nothing stopping them from creating their own system. All you really need is a deck of cards to represent die rolls.

[Akroma]

I randomly got the idea of prisoners playing Maid RPG.

I laughed my ass off.

Uniform color: orange
Hair color: bald
eyecolor: brown
Maid types: muscular/cool
special qualities: wanted, assassin
maid roots: mysterious
maid weapon: handmade knife
Stress explosion: kills a fellow inmate

[ed boy]

They'll be fine as long as they don't play FATAL.

[G-Flex]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27dungeons.html

So the ban on D&D in US prisons has been upheld.

Did you read the article?

D&D is not banned "in US Prisons". One prison has a ban on it. This is about an administrative decision at a single prison, no others.



On one hand, I think the excuse given in the article (about it engendering fantasies of escape and so forth) is complete bullshit. On the other hand, I could understand guards not wanting to have to differentiate between inmates talking about D&D stuff vs. real-life stuff (what D&D campaign doesn't have you talking about killing someone, or escaping from someplace?).

[Cthulhu]

They could also use it as a code.

3:00, at the wizard's tower we're gonna backstab Halaster.

Got it, boss.

[smjjames]

They could also use it as a code.

3:00, at the wizard's tower we're gonna backstab Halaster.

Got it, boss.

Nothing stopping them from using different words and methods for creating code.

[G-Flex]

The issue (as I mentioned it) isn't them using code, necessarily, it's the guards being unable to immediately differentiate between people talking about a game and people talking about plans they're making for real life. There are potentially ways the players could make it more obvious, but even then, how do you know they aren't using an extremely transparent code? It would be pretty convenient.

[Renault]

To be entirely honest, I find it hard to believe anyone who plays DnD would ever end up in prison. What did they do, get into a knife-fight over a bad roll?

[Cthulhu]

Probably got arrested for creeping their LGS's token nerd girl.