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Dr Thomas Radecki’s List of D&D Related Deaths and Violence

29 Oct

Posted by shadejon as RPGs

Thomas Radecki is a psychiatrist and lawyer, a vocal member of the National Council on Television Violence, and an activist against fantasy role-playing game violence in much the same way that Jack Thomson is for video game violence.

He claims to have been personally involved in 8 or 9 cases of death due to role-playing games, and has familiarity with over 130 more, details of which he lists on his site. It makes for gruesome reading. Most of the deaths seem to be only tangentially related to the game (e.g. occurred at the same location as where the victim often played, or happened soon after a game session was finished), and others appear to indicate that Radecki doesn’t have a full grasp of what the game is all about.

5 Responses

Cage

October 29th, 2009 at 3:01 am
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After taking some time to read Radecki website he seems to fall in to the stereotype D&D hating nut that wants to bring back the ‘good old days’ when the world was full of brightly colour flowers and no one ever said a bad word to anyone else… just read his list of approved movies! Radecki it’s not the 80s anymore and even when it was it was never like your romanticised memories!
Sean Holland

October 29th, 2009 at 5:06 am
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Poorly sourced, no follow up data, no actual proof that the criminals even played D&D in most cases. Standard scare story nonsense.
R.E. Davis aka Rev. Lazaro

October 29th, 2009 at 7:55 am
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The only thing about gaming that triggers an angry response in me is when some “expert” tries to push all of his time, energy and motivations into creating hateful feelings towards a hobby. Can we see how many murders and suicides are related to Non-D&D things? Oh wow, you would think money, politics, religion, and drugs would be a bigger cause of threats in 1 year than D&D has been in 30….weird.
Chris Norwood

November 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 am
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And apparently, D&D hasn’t caused anyone to “go nuts” for 16 years now (since the latest report I saw was from ’93)! Thank God the scourge of violence is over!!!
Rosalie Davis

September 3rd, 2010 at 6:21 pm
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To my knowledge Dr. Thomas Radecki has never sat for the Bar Exam in any state. In addition, I witness numerous Hippaa violations in his office by both himself and his office staff. Further, some pharmacies such as Walmart in Clarion are currently not filling his Suboxone or narcotics scripts.