Editing Mazes and Monsters (section)

==Mandatory Boring History Lesson==
The movie is, as stated above, based on a book, which itself is loosely based (''seriously'' by loosely I mean it's about as historically accurate as Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) on the story of James Dallas Egbert III, a college student. He snuck into a steam tunnel to commit suicide, but was rescued. A private investigator, William Dear, looked into it, and reported his findings (which weren't D&D related, but it was ''mentioned'' that he played D&D). The news picked it up and as far as they were concerned it was just one more bad thing to say "BLAME D&D!!111!!!" He later killed himself with a gun, and again the media was eager to blame D&D, and some idiot writer wrote Mazes and Monsters. The reality is that D&D had nothing to do with it. He was a 17 year old college student with clinical depression, parental issues, drug addiction, and was hypothesized to be a closeted gay man who felt alone by Dear, who just couldn't take this shit anymore and offed himself. Then the woman who wrote Mazes and Monsters, Rona Jaffe (a second-wave feminist who seemed relatively reasonable other than the book) didn't know jack shit about it and wrote a book based on a position she already held. As did Jack Chick, the [[Nazi|nice fellow]] who wrote [[Dark Dungeons]].

'''tl;dr''': A bunch of idiots who don't know what they're talking about wrote a book about how D&D is bad, and then made it into a movie, which helped kick off the [[Satanic Panic]], against the advisement of literally every professional involved..