Re: (ME) Dungeons & Dragons

[me@evanier.com (Mark Evanier)]

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:48:31 PST, "Nate Piekos"
<natepiekos@hotmail.com> wrote:

> How much research did you do into D&D and AD&D as source info?

ME: None.

>Were there big problems with the network due to the supposed "D&D 
>related suicides" etc.  Not to mention that a lot of the content of the 
>role playing game dealt with the occult etc. ?  (If indeed you did have 
>to tiptoe around that stuff, you did a good job, it got me interested in 
>fantasy enough to become a voracious reader, without feeling patronized 
>by the lack of serious occult reference in the show.  -- in other words, 
>after I had played AD&D, I didn't feel that the cartoon was watered down 
>unjustly.)

ME: Nobody ever mentioned suicides or the occult to me.  I just was
hired to write the pilot and did so.  A fellow named Dennis Marks
figured out a lot of the characters and concepts, so perhaps he had to
deal with those concerns.




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