Interesting article on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26328105Discusses how Dungeons and Dragons has gone from being a game that was once under an extraordinary sustained assault from fundamentalist religious groups who feared its power over young minds to nothing more than something 'geeks' do.
It shows an example of a trial where D&D was described as "a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings" in order to convince the jury it was responsible for a suicide.
Quite like the final paragraph:
"The view of roleplaying games has changed over time," says Smith, "mostly because the predicted 'streets awash with the blood of innocents as a horde of demonically-possessed roleplayers laid waste to the country' simply never materialised."
(Thank to G.R. Matthews for the link!)