As anyone who has played a tabletop RPG can attest, to roll a character is to enter a dangerous world. Reality becomes the game. The game becomes the reality. Your intense occult training prepares you to enter a coven. It’s all obvious stuff, really.
‘Dark Dungeons’ trailer brings Jack Chick’s infamous anti-D&D tract to film
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.
Dark Dungeons: The Movie, which raised funds on Kickstarter last year, is an adaptation of evangelist Jack Chick’s 1984 piece of Dungeons & Dragons scaremongering. Judging by the trailer and a writeup in Wired, the filmmakers are playing it just as straight as the tract’s bizarre vision of pop culture requires, complete with a sinister dungeon master, literally blood-soaked dice, and a Jack Chick-approved book burning. Its creator supposedly got the actual rights from Chick for free after offering to buy them with his lottery winnings, an impressive coup from a famously reclusive man. Dark Dungeons premieres this August at the GenCon gaming convention, but you can — and should — read the source material right now.
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