Bay 12 Games Forum

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27dungeons.html

So the ban on D&D in US prisons has been upheld.

Apparently the authorities see D&D as a threat that would cause gangs to form and likely inspire prisoners to "level up" by gaining "EXP points" IRL from shanking imates with their "+2 daggers".

You suppose they can still play home brew paper+pen games? Seems like you'd have a lot of free time to do some awesome campaigns when locked up in the joint for years at a time with the same handful of players.

So what do you guys think? Is it unnecessary and silly to oppress nerds in prison and a violation of rights? Or a rightly justified and deserved curbing of freedom?

[edited: I experimented a bit and figured out what worked]

I want to edit the goblins so they generate less of a logistics/ micromanagment headache with their equipment and clothing. The obvious solution would be to make them all naked sans armor, but I don't want that. Basically, I want goblins to wear simple, identical sets of equipment for easy management through the stocks menu.

I've deleted the USE_EVIL_ANIMALS and USE_ANIMAL_BYPRODUCTS tokens and that got rid of their ultra-valuable GCS socks and Ogre leather and whatnot, I gave them OUTDOOR_FARMING and deleted most of the clothing types they can wear and got goblins dressed in in identical sets of, nice narrow rope weed uniforms. The odd side effect is that now the 'leather' type armor gobbos in advent mode have is also made of rope weed too so they have cloth helms and gauntlets and everything. They still wear human and elf leather bracelets and stuff, so the trophy-taking tokens still work, apparently.

Also of note, adding the token METAL_PREF causes them to have steel armor and weapons.