Check this thread out. I've always wondered about this. Now it's confirmed.
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=11407
Escapes, puzzles. Long gaming sessions. Holy shit. These guys are way old school.
Now, if you're thinking what I'm thinking...let's get some OSRIC into the prison system!
RPGs in Prison
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RPGs in Prison
KELLRI
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Wrestling bears is not easy. It's almost impossible to get them to sell for you. - Superstar Billy Graham
All Killer No Filler
Wrestling bears is not easy. It's almost impossible to get them to sell for you. - Superstar Billy Graham
Heh. That's the way I roll. I'm so gangsta.Serious Paul wrote:A big theme is puzzles. Traps, riddles, mazes-the more intricate the better.
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The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Hey when I worked for the Juvenile Prison the kids there taught me how to make dice out of Toilet paper 
I want to hear what you did in the dungeon, not the voting booth. Politics and rules minutia both bore me in my opinion.
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IIRC, there was an editor's note in one of the issues of Dragon seven years ago or so talking about the plight of inmates who weren't allowed to play D&D, and how everyone should write their appropriate elected official and ask for this to change. Or something like that.
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The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Well...did you notice in the thread that most of the players aren't short timers. These are the guys doing hard sentences. The writer of the thread is a prison guard - who notes that the gamers for the most part are not the gang-bangers.
A DM friend was imprisoned for selling LSD in the late 80s. When he got out 10 years later, he had one hell of a notebook. He didn't play in the joint but he said the writing was what kept his imagination alive and his brain sane.
A DM friend was imprisoned for selling LSD in the late 80s. When he got out 10 years later, he had one hell of a notebook. He didn't play in the joint but he said the writing was what kept his imagination alive and his brain sane.
KELLRI
All Killer No Filler
Wrestling bears is not easy. It's almost impossible to get them to sell for you. - Superstar Billy Graham
All Killer No Filler
Wrestling bears is not easy. It's almost impossible to get them to sell for you. - Superstar Billy Graham
Hard to become a productive citizen in a maximum security facility doing 20 to life. Mind you, I'm not an advocate of inmate rights, but at least while they're playing D&D they're not selling contraband, promoting gang affiliations, assaulting fellow inmates or lifting weights all day so as to become a stronger, more aggressive criminal.Ancalagon wrote:How about they becoming productive citizens first and then focus on playing (A)D&D?
In my fantasy mind, I like to think that the D&D players doing hard time are a combination of white collar criminals, drug offenders and high-end bank robbers. I just have difficulty wrapping my head around a guy like T-Bag from Prison Break or a bunch of MS-13 gangstas playing Dragonlance . . .
- Wheggi
The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Don't know what is worse punishment . . . doing the time or playing THAT game. 
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The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Juju EyeBall
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I'd think prisoners wouldn't mind 3.5 so much, as they have all the time in the world to sift through their rulebooks to figure out what in the heck that magically reinforced masterwork wooden door hardness is.
And according to the post in the link, many of the games centered around prison breaks and sex (including creepy and criminal forms of it), so maybe D&D in prison isn't such a great idea after all...
And according to the post in the link, many of the games centered around prison breaks and sex (including creepy and criminal forms of it), so maybe D&D in prison isn't such a great idea after all...
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Juju EyeBall
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I wonder if the big character used a +5 vorpal shiv . . .
(this topic just lends itself to too many puns)
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(this topic just lends itself to too many puns)
- Wheggi
The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”