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The effect of Role playing games on modern literature

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The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

09:02 / 21.11.03

Don't forget Sabbat, Blood for the Blood God!

I think earlier in this thread it's mentioned that role playing played in a part of the 90's sci fi/fantasy explosion which cleared the way for people to realise it was profitable for things like LOTR to be made.

Obviously there'e no real way to measure the effects on literature/society etc.

Role playing did however provide the impetus for a series of moral panic films about the evils of role playing, as well as an episode of Taggart (a British detective show set in Glasgow). Tom Hanks was in one of them I believe.

09:32 / 21.11.03

Mazes and Monsters (1982) where Tom is the insane geek who tries to fly.

From a review:
"The plot is dreadfully simple, and simply dreadful. A Fantasy Role-Playing game drives a college dweeb to insanity when the players take it too far for his fragile little psyche to withstand, proving that even the highest of the Hollywood echelon had to just pay the rent sometimes. This mock-worthy made for TV movie aired in 1982 and had audiences wondering why they were watching this crap in the first place. Mazes and Monsters did for Dungeons and Dragons what Reefer Madness did for marijuana."

Jack The Bodiless

11:25 / 21.11.03

Well, the thread's supposed to be about the effect RPG has had/is having/could have on modern literature. It moved on a little through a bit of theoretical musings on RPG as experimental theatre/art, and now we're slinging around ideas of movies based on RPG experience.

You could move it around wherever you like, but that just sets a precedent for moving a thread around all over the shop whenever the discussion shifts. By that token, it should have started out in Books, moved to the Headshop, then on to Art, possibly via the Magic and Film/TV/Theatre (emphasis on Theatre), and finally back to Film/TV/Theatre (emphasis on Film). Really, can't we just leave it here and try to stick to a 'Headshoppy' tone/content? People could sling around lists of movies based on RPG experience in a new thread in another forum, and leave this one as it is - even if that means it falls off the bottom of the forum. If you keep moving it because of threadrot, how will people find the damned thing again?

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