Whatever the future holds for the Wingnut Four, it is now unlikely to include prison yard D&D sessions.
A man serving life in prison for first-degree intentional homicide lost his legal battle today to play Dungeons & Dragons behind bars.
Kevin T. Singer filed a federal lawsuit against officials at Wisconsin's Waupun prison, arguing that a policy banning all Dungeons & Dragons material violated his free speech and due process rights.
Prison officials instigated the Dungeons & Dragons ban among concerns that playing the game promoted gang-related activity and was a threat to security. Singer challenged the ban but the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld it as a reasonable policy....
Singer was told by prison officials that he could not keep the materials because Dungeons & Dragons "promotes fantasy role playing, competitive hostility, violence, addictive escape behaviors, and possible gambling," according to the ruling.
This is perhaps for the best, seeing as how the scroll they were using to cast their Illusion of Telephone Repairmen spell seems to have had a curse on it. Perhaps though if they are model inmates they will be allowed to retain their +2 Hats of Pimping.
Oh wait I am not supposed to jump to conclusions. After all trying to get access to somebody's telephone by fraudulently claiming you work for the phone company could just as easily be Legitimate Citizen Journalism of the sort the MSM is too unethical to even attempt.