Andres from Templo de Hecate sent me an email

In my last post I quoted a CDM review from Templo de Hecate. Andres, who wrote the review, contacted me and said that he would like to comment on my post.I told Andres that I’d repost comments here for him. It’s interesting and worth reading.

I´m Andres, the CDM´s review author on Templo de Hecate. I take the liberty
of translate to English the piece of my review you have commented, please
accept my apologies about my English since I´m not a native :-)

“I want to mention also that the game has had some polemic in USA becauseits launch has coincided with the Virginia Tech slaughter, precisely athands of an Asian´s origin student. It is an incomprehensible polemicbecause as we always say in theses cases: it is only a game.”

Here at Spain, the RPG have had very bad reputation because of an infamous
crime known as El asesino del rol or the Roleplaying killer. The killer
admitted that he was playing a roleplaying game created by himself, but it
was demonstrated also that he is a schizophrenic with 43 multiple
personalities who gives no value to the life. He is insane. Period.

Since then, and although the situation has improved, whenever there is a odd
crime or vandalisms acts with no suspect known, the media says that the
felony is suspected to be related to an rpg. So we have similar feelings
about your situation.

The ignorance leads to the suspicion, the suspicion leads to the fear, and
you know that the fear leads to the anger and hence the Dark side is only at
few inches :-)

Good luck and congratulations for your games, I expect to buy CMD soon and
I´ll write an extended review in our web.

Best regards,
Andrés

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