Tory roleplayers?

"for a few spotty years, i was that tragic geek"

Tory MP Micheal Grove on hes former love for D&D

with the death of the great white beared primark of d&d, gary gygaz, this week it has cuased pepole to reminise avout the grand old hobby, with suprising resluts...

with public figures like Darren Waters (BBC jornalist) and Micheal grove (tory MP) admitting to playing the game has D&D finaly lost the seedy image of the mid 80's suicide cult?

lets start at the beging, d&D has been villansed for years, even the bbc telvison drama tagart had a pop at it (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716621/) and lets not even mention forssit gump's attempt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters) and of corse we are all famuiler with those poor sould who indvently gave d&d a bad name, just because of playing the game, Dallas Egbert III from the Michigan State and Irving Pulling II, the medis gobblubed up there playing of D&D, and compltly ignopred the preexisting metal health issues that they suffred from, so how did we get from that to where we are now?

Garay gygax himself went on record and is qouted as saying:-

The idea that a game is anything more than a game… You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.

and do you know what, its a good point. the sad fact is that young men comit sucided every day, and the type of enternment that they injoy has no baring at all on this.

its just sad that it took the death of the creator of D&D for pepole to openly admit that they play.