[overflow] Re: GHHS

[Lee Gold <leeway@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michelle & Boyd Bottorff wrote:
> 
> > > I strongly reccommend concerned adults volenteering to provide this sort
> > > of time and attention for the kids at their local schools.  Start a
> > > gaming club or a music club or something.  It isn't as good a solution
> > > as actually having a full time parent on hand,  but it's much better
> > > than nothing, and it DOES give the bullied kids a safe place to go.
> >
> > Oh, you mean like D&D?  </pain&sarcasm>
> 
> Er, yes.  Although D&D has a bad name.  It might be "safer" to play some
> other roleplaying game.   I'm afraid I don't understand why the
> "pain&sarcasm."

Mat's using a pseudo-html convention in which </whatever> means 
you're now turning off whatever.  <pontificating> Usually you
start by setting the emotion by enclosing it in angle brackets
and then turn it off. </pontificating>

D&D's bad name is (as you probably know) unwarranted.  Investigation
shows that teenaged D&Ders are less apt to commit suicide or act
biolently than teenaged non-D&Ders.  And (as you probably know)
D&D doesn't involve any belief that any of the characters are
real, including not just the player character warriors and mages
and all but also the non-player characters, and doesn't involve
any tie-in with any occult sects.

--Lee Gold