From Wikipedia:
Michael A. Stackpole (born 1957) is a science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Battletech books… From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles for the industry. During this time, in response to the accusations of Patricia Pulling (among others) who felt that the “occult” elements of Dungeons & Dragons were driving people to satanism, murder and suicide, perhaps even as part of a vast Satanic ritual abuse conspiracy, Stackpole did a research study on all American legal cases where injury or death had been attributed to gaming. He found that not only were the links to gaming very weak, but that even if all of the reports had been valid, they showed that gamers were violent or suicidal far less often than the general public [my blog entry on studies regarding the claims can be found here on my post ''Dungeons And Dragons - Or Mazes And Monsters?].
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G R E E N with envy
He was really sweet in person too. Since I was clearly a little, teeny-tiny bit fan-girlish… *blush*
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