Soon after the reception, under the supervision of Zhang Lexing, Red River Fund quickly signed a formal investment agreement with John's MIPS project and Bosak's multi-protocol router project, successfully completing two important investments. The harvest of participating in the cocktail party was not small, but Zhang Lexing was not proud for long, but his PC game studio encountered a big problem.

Spurred on by the signing of a contract between the Lübeta development team and IBM, Zhang Lexing's Blue Dragon Studio (after the establishment of KF-Panda Studio, Zhang Lexing's PC game studio also had its own name - Blue Dragon, and its own logo - Blue Chinese Dragon) was excited, and everyone was trying to have similar opportunities. Against this backdrop, Mike Ronald, who is obsessed with D&D (Dungeons & Dragons), took the lead in the development of a role-playing game (RPG) based on D&D rules. The development of an RPG with D&D rules is actually relatively simple, because there are already quite mature paper role-playing games (TRPGs) to refer to, and the system of D&D itself is quite complete.

Ronald's development plans were quickly approved, and the game was successfully completed a few months later, just in time for the peak sales season of Christmas '83. Ronald's RPG has a computer screen look close to that of a paper RPG, in which the player can choose the protagonist of four classes (warrior, priest, mage and thief) and can form a 6-person squad with two NPC characters throughout the game. The game's setting, called NewPhlan, is a city built on the ruins of an ancient city, where the inhabitants of the city have been working hard to drive away the monsters around them, and the player's adventure party has been invited to do so. The monsters in the game are basically designed according to the illustrations in the "Monster Handbook" (the monster data book of D&D paper games), giving players a sense of intimacy and authority. The game uses a first-person perspective for adventures, and a top-down perspective and turn-based for combat, which gives a sense of freshness to former D&D paper players. The mature system and novel experience have made this RPG game under the banner of D&D achieve good sales results.

Good sales results represent the best time to develop a sequel, and Ronald is not immune, and the development of the second part is quickly on the agenda, and it seems that they are all developing in a good direction. However, the sudden arrival of a summons from the District Court of California disrupted everyone's plans, Zhang Lexing had to arrange professional lawyers to deal with the upcoming lawsuit, and Ronald's game development plan had to be temporarily halted.

Speaking of this summons, Zhang Lexing has never figured out how he could be implicated in his studio, obviously a boy named Darren Molitor accidentally killed a young girl, is it because Molito is a computer game player, once played the RPG game by Ronald? Could it be that people who have played games, as long as there are any problems in the future, can they use games as scapegoats, Zhang Lexing suddenly understood a little bit where the banana surnamed Tao returned to China many years later.

Ruder Finn is the largest law firm in California, and has a long-standing legal relationship with VisualSystem, so it is natural for him to be the first choice. Relying on the efforts of the law firm to investigate, the fog shrouded in Molito's manslaughter case gradually lifted, and the hidden figure behind it began to be revealed, and Zhang Lexing realized that his real opponent was actually an organization called B.A.D.D.

B.A.D.D, whose full name is Bothered-About-Dungeons-and-Dragons, is an organization founded by an American woman named Patricia Purin who specializes in D&D games. In fact, the prejudice against games has been around for a long time, and the first time it was associated with D&D games (games of this period were still pure paper RPGs) was because of the suspected disappearance of Dallas in 1979. A student named Dallas fled the school after leaving a vague note, but was later recovered by a private investigator. However, due to the false coverage of some media sensationalism during the disappearance of Dallas, many people believe that D&D Games is responsible for the disappearance of Dallas. Many media outlets who are keen to report on the connection between D&D games and disappearances don't really know about D&D games, or even play them at all, just because the incident happens to be a hot topic. In order to increase sales, some media outlets have also deliberately alarmist, labeling D&D games as easy to cause danger, overindulgence affects mental condition, and can easily affect children at home without any investigation. Fortunately, the heavyweights of the RPG industry on paper quickly stood up for interviews, and relying on these positive and objective reports, the previous negative public opinion gradually dissipated.

Patricia Purin, the founder of the B.A.D.D., was an ordinary American housewife until 1982, but an incident occurred in the summer of that year that transformed her into a radical anti-D&D fighter. In June of that year, her son, Owen, committed suicide at home, using a pistol that Patricia had bought to defend himself. This irritates Patricia, who is unwilling to accept that her son committed suicide because of mental instability, so the hapless D&D game becomes the best scapegoat. At Patricia's instigation and persuasion, her family and some of her son's friends accepted her view, and all of them saw D&D as the culprit behind Owen's suicide.

Patricia first targeted the people who had played an RPG on paper with her son, and in her opinion, something must have happened during the game that caused Owen's mood to fluctuate, such as someone "cursing" Owen before that unfortunate thing happened. Such baseless absurdity would not have been accepted by the courts, and Patricia's lawsuit was dismissed before it had even begun. Patricia didn't back down from this blow, believing that the reason why she didn't succeed was because she was too weak, so she organized the B.A.D.D. society and recruited a large number of people who were dissatisfied with D&D games to join. In order to expand her influence, Patricia led her group members to distribute flyers and pamphlets critical of D&D games, and constantly appeared on various radio and television programs, publicly denouncing paper RPGs.

"It's been two years, and I didn't even know my son was playing Dungeons & Dragons......," Patricia said in an interview with a reporter.

"Except for monsters, it's still monsters...... In addition to bloody killings, it is still bloody killings...... This game can only give people a sense of horror. A B.A.D.D. member said when he participated in the famous TV talk show Gherodo.

"D&D games are all evil...... Playing this kind of game is only addictive, a waste of money and time......" says the B.A.D.D brochure.

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I didn't expect that in the 80s, there were already people in the United States who had a deep understanding of the essence of electronic opium and electronic heroin theory a few years later, if Ms. Pat could meet Tao Banana, the two people with a lot of common language would be able to talk very happily, maybe the world's first D&D game concentration camp would be born in the United States, of course, this fee must also keep pace with the times, changed to 4800 US dollars per person, and Ms. Pat herself may still be able to get it" Ring D&D Games First Man".

Jamie Rhodes, the head of Ruder Finn, took a document from his bag and put it in front of Zhang Lexing, and then said: "Mr. Zhang, this case was originally very simple. There was no obvious conflict of interest between this Molitor and the victim, and there was nothing special happened between the two before the crime. ”

Zhang Lexing listened and read the information, and the full legal terms were dizzying, but fortunately, the conclusion could still be understood.

"Mr. Zhang, in this matter, that Patricia B.A.D.D is quite active, in order to have something to do with the D&D game, they also brought in a group of so-called D&D experts to testify, and issued a bunch of incomprehensible and far-fetched so-called evidence, which is unprofessional at first glance. Jamie Rod continued: "In this case, of course, the court ignored it, and the matter was over in the first place. However, at a later trial, Molitor abruptly changed his story, claiming that his behavior at the time of the crime was influenced by D&D games. Recently, B.A.D.D. distributed promotional materials with an article signed by Molitto, in which Molito blamed all his guilt on D&D games, and B.A.D.D also supported Molitor in many public places. As a result, the Blue Dragon Studio was implicated in this way. ”

"Is there any good way?" Zhang Lexing was very uncertain, and he couldn't imagine that it would be so dangerous to make a game.

"The crux of the case is Molito, and based on our analysis, I suspect that the reason why he changed his confession was probably influenced by the B.A.D.D., and we intend to work on this. Sending someone to investigate the relationship between Molito and the B.A.D.D., and especially whether Molito had any contact with the two before changing his confession, I believe that this should be rewarding. Jamie Rhodes gave a brief overview of his countermeasures.

"Very well, leave this matter to your firm, and I am sure you will be victorious. Zhang Lexing was a little relieved.

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