James Dallas Egbert III

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James Dallas Egbert III (October 29, 1962 - August 16, 1980) was a student at Michigan State University who disappeared from his dorm room on August 15, 1979. The disappearance was widely reported in the media, and his participation in the game role-play fantasy Dungeons & amp; Dragons captured by the press and researchers alike are potentially related to his departure, encouraging previously vague games to be of national concern.

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Egbert was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Huber Heights, a suburb of Dayton, attending Wayne High School. He was a child prodigy, and entered Michigan State University at the age of 16, where he majored in computer science. Personal issues cited in reports of suicide attempts and disappearances include depression, loneliness, parental pressure, drug addiction, and (according to honorable detective William) difficulty adjusting to homosexuality.

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Disappearance

On August 15, 1979, after writing a suicide note, Egbert left his dorm room at Case Hall and entered the university steam tunnel. He consumed some methaqualone, intending to commit suicide, but the effort proved unsuccessful. Upon waking the next day, he hid in a friend's house.

Investigation

The police search for Egbert begins. The story was widely followed in the news media after Michael Stuart, a journalist for the university newspaper, The State News, published the details. Egbert's parents hired a private detective, William Dear, to find their son. Knowing a bit about fantasy role-playing games, The esteemed theorized that Egbert's disappearance was related to his involvement with Dungeons & amp; Dragons game, possibly promoted further in subsequent news media. Students are reported to play live action sessions of the game in the steam tunnel under the school, and it's speculated that Egbert was injured or lost during the session.

The search for Egbert continued unsuccessfully for several weeks, during which Egbert moved to two other homes in East Lansing before finally leaving town via a bus to New Orleans.

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Discovery, finally death

Egbert made a second suicide attempt in New Orleans by consuming cyanide compounds, which also failed. He then moved to Morgan City, Louisiana and was hired as an oil field worker. After four days of work, Egbert calls Dear and reveals his location. Dear trip to Louisiana (the others reported Texas) and restoring Egbert. After their meeting, Egbert asked the investigator â € <â €

Egbert died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on August 16, 1980. In 1984 Dear revealed the story of Egbert at The Dungeon Master.

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Legacy

Ideas from Dungeons & amp; Dragons players who perform real-life sessions in dangerous locations such as steam tunnels and lost contact with reality become embedded in cultural awareness, inspirational films like Mazes and Monster . The perceived relationship between Egbert's disappearance and Dungeons & amp; Dragons was one of several game-related controversies during the 1980s.

Pritchard Incident

In 1988, during an investigation into the murder of his stepfather, Christopher Wayne Pritchard told police he and his friends had mapped the North Carolina State University steam tunnel for the purpose of incorporating them into the Dungeons & amp; Dragons role play.

Fiction

• In 1981, Rona Jaffe interpreted the case in his novel Mazes and Monster. This book was adapted for a film made for Mazes and Monster television in 1982. In this novel, a group of classmates play a role-playing game 'Mazes and Monsters' using an abandoned mine near their campus campus to live-action version of this game. One of the students (played by Tom Hanks in the movie) suffers from psychotic disorders while playing the game.
• In 1983, an episode of America's Great Hero titled "Magicians and Wizards" described the role of direct action playing in a fictitious university steam factory.
• In 1984, Neal Stephenson wrote the university satire The Big U , in which several live-action roles played the heads of gamers into their university gutters to play a game called "Sewers and Serpents".

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References

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External links

• "The Elimination of James Dallas Egbert III" by Shaun Hately
• "Attacks on Role-Playing Games" by Paul Cardwell Jr.
• "The Truth Behind the Loss of James Dallas Egbert III". Archived from the original on October 9, 2010.

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