Dr. Avery wrote:Hi Razz. In Missouri, where I'm from, in the early 80's they were allowe. However, after the furor of the "evil D&D craze they were removed from all institutions. As usual people fear what they don't understand. As far as behavioral issues, most of the people I gamed with were model inmates. Other than breaking the rules to game. Most of the guards wher I was at new we gamed and didn't care because thwy new we stayed out oc trouble. They were more worried about drugs or getting shanked than they were about us. There were a few hot heads and newbies who confiscated some books here and there. I played with several guys who were in for murder. I myself was in for robbery. When I was younger I got hooked on meth real bad which led to my incarceration. If it wasn't for some of the guys I gamed with I might not have got my life together. This year I'll have been clean 10 years. Going to prison probably saved my life. Anyway I hope that answers your questions.
Wow! Congratulations on the 10 years of living clean!
I hope you didn't take what I wrote as any kind of personal dig, I
was genuinely curious as why they wouldn't allow it. I mean if they allowed books why not RPG books?
However you do raise a good point about people fearing things they are not educated about properly and for a long time D&D players=Satanic devil worshiping murders.
Thanks for the fast (and honest) responses to my questions.
Once again I didn't mean any disrespect and I wasn't trying to make light of your situation, I've just heard from other people that have been in jail that certain books and tv shows/movies are not available/censored because of the responses they could cause. For instance they can't/don't show anything sexual in nature and things like that.
Anyway back to the thread, I guess for me the most "out there" place we've gamed is either when we went camping, or playing in the empty house I just bought. All we had was a small kitchen table and 4 chairs the previous owners left me, oh and a functioning fridge. Luckily I was within walking distance of 7-11 and Pizza Pizza so I was fun (and creepy) to set the table up in the middle of the living room with the walls and floors half stripped (the group was helping me reno the house) and our only source of light was the
work lights mounted on a stand because the overhead light fixtures were removed and I hadn't brought lamps or anything yet. At least they were nice and bright!
It was weird the way our voices would echo around the empty house. We played so late that we ended crashing there with our sleeping bags.
The coolest thing that added to the atmosphere is my new house turned out to be haunted (not sure how many of you believe in that stuff but I sure do) and different people witnessed different stuff each night (and sometimes the same stuff as some else did the night or two before).