Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer

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Dungeons and Dragons on 60 Minutes

Dungeons and Dragons had just about as awkward an adolescence as its legion of fans did. In the 1980s, the budding roleplaying game was tangentially linked to a handful of high profile teenage suicides. Fueled by spur-of-the-moment hysteria, pocketed movements arose across the country to ban Dungeons and Dragons, claiming that the game taught witchcraft, satanism, homosexuality, necromancy...

Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer