I'm going to have to watch that. I'm 38 and growing up I used to play D&D religiously, albeit never dressing up and doing the live action thing. I can remember being 12 or 13 and my mother dropping me off at the library a few times a week for games, and the players would range in age from my age at the time to guys in their 40's. Talk about a fucking weird vibe.
I can also remember people taking it way too seriously and either committing suicide or doing some other crazy shit because they actually thought they were their character. If I recall correctly there was a movie called Mazes and Monsters about exactly that, starring a very young Tom Hanks...
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