The Washington Post, May 4th, 1991
Incredible! In an article about teenagers who intentionally scar themselves with knives and cigarettes, who lack parental guidance or attention, who burn and mangle toads and who are stuck in the middle of a Navy nowhere with nothing to do, your paper manages to make Dungeons & Dragons seem the cause of Shawn Novak's alleged crimes {"Bored to Death," Style, April 26}. When told that I played D&D, people often look at me as if I had just announced that I was Joe Stalin reincarnated. The media have consistently misrepresented the type of teen - and adult - who plays D&D. The vast majority of D&D...
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