> Friedmann’s infatuation with the game had continued after he moved to Nashville, becoming so intense that his psychologist stipulated in the terms of his parole that, along with being kept from weapons, he be prevented from playing fantasy games such as D. & D.
To be fair, he sounds a little more intense than your average player:
"A psychologist concluded that Friedmann suffered from dysthymia, today known as persistent depressive disorder, and schizoid personality disorder, writing that he showed “indifference to social relationships and a restricted range of emotional experience and expression.” He also had a tendency to “blur fantasy with reality.”
Friedmann was convicted of armed robbery and attempted murder"
Yesterday I was just watching an episode of futurama where bender (the robot) “finds” his imagination and believes that he is a dnd character. He goes around Don Quixote style.
To defeat bender, Fry pretends to a destructive spell on him.
I don't think we can really say without being experts in psychology and the case ourselves, but as a general principle I think I like it for not being a heavy stamp with the usual mould, there was undeniably consideration of the particulars even if someone else would reach a different conclusion.
Now that's ... that's weird.